I sold the painting knife because it looked bugged

[Boomy]

It was flashing red in this glitchy way but looked like a normal knife. Didn't even realize the name was different. Dropped it off at the Undead who's no longer selling it back.

Did it at the start of the chapter. By then I already heard about saves getting corrupted/skill point issues. Got worried something's bugging out and noped out in a panic.

Guess I'm locked out of the Circus quest in this playthrough?

[Bankai9212]

Is that what is was for? Game could have provided a hint or something.

[twisted shape]

♥♥♥♥♥♥ ,i tought it was a diferent name and also ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sold it ,

[♦♣OneFirmCat♥♠]

Why would anyone sell it & get 1 dollar back?

Clearly it was no regular knife, stash it the stash is right there.

[ViolentViolet]

damn dude, i would love a way to restart a chapter without having to restart the whole game, lol i also sold the knife...well guess that i will have to do a second run after i finish the game

[^7ja^1co]

I thought it was a bug XD

[Bankai9212]

Originally posted by ♦♣OneFirmCat♥♠:

Why would anyone sell it & get 1 dollar back?

Clearly it was no regular knife, stash it the stash is right there.

That’s where most items go to never be used again.

[Blood Red Mike]

You don't need the knife to finish the game nor any specific quest. This knife is meant to get you to the easter egg. You can get an achievement for it, but there's also another way to get it, so you're not locked out of anything. If you want to find the easter egg, you'll need to search for a lucky dice in the derailed train nearby the first area.

[Bankai9212]

Originally posted by Blood Red Mike:

You don't need the knife to finish the game nor any specific quest. This knife is meant to get you to the easter egg. You can get an achievement for it, but there's also another way to get it, so you're not locked out of anything. If you want to find the easter egg, you'll need to search for a lucky dice in the derailed train nearby the first area.

Not the point of the OP and it clearly states locked out of the circus quest or in this case an easter egg. The issue is that there isn't any indication or hint or not talking about it. In a game with alot of cool and interesting relics this needs to stand out.

[Blood Red Mike]

Well, this knife looked different at the first glance, so I think you can consider it as a strong hint that there's something mysterious about it :).

[Bankai9212]

Originally posted by Blood Red Mike:

Well, this knife looked different at the first glance, so I think you can consider it as a strong hint that there's something mysterious about it :).

All the unique knives look different, meaning me and others would think it had some effect only to see that it doesn't. Heck the undead could have had some dialogue option when you talked to him with it in your inventory.

[Boomy]

Originally posted by Blood Red Mike:

Well, this knife looked different at the first glance, so I think you can consider it as a strong hint that there's something mysterious about it :).

In my defense the icons is completely generic. The only unusual thing about it is the 3D model glowing red in a janky way.

I assume done of two things:
1) The item is rendering wrong with some graphics glitch
2) The devs added a new shader to light up loot around the level.

Since there's no reason to assume a crucial quest item would be sitting right at the spawn, I decided to sell it to despawn it. Figured if loot is now supposed to be bright red I'll see that effect again in the future.

My assumption is they added a free knife to the start of the game in case someone entered chapter 3 with no ammo and melees of their own. A failsafe for careless players, which happened to load wrong for me or something the like. Turns out it was a quest key.

Thanks for the tip about the dice. I'll go look for it along the track.

[Boomy]

Originally posted by Blood Red Mike:

You don't need the knife to finish the game nor any specific quest. This knife is meant to get you to the easter egg. You can get an achievement for it, but there's also another way to get it, so you're not locked out of anything. If you want to find the easter egg, you'll need to search for a lucky dice in the derailed train nearby the first area.

Any chance I could get screenshot which train that is? I've looted all of them along the track and could swear there's no dice. I've seen another topic mention the red one near the circus, but it only had a revolver and a health potion.

[Blood Red Mike]

I've found it over there in my two runs: link[imgur.com]. It's very small (only takes up one square in your inventory), so try to use tab button randomly passing through the wagons.

[Boomy]

Thanks for the help. Sadly, the link you've provided doesn't seem to work. Could you try imgur?

[Necroscourge]

All the claims that they thought it was bugged are PRECIOUS.