[BUG] Demonic Essence Upgrade Tracking - Superthread

[Lord Bennington]

The game is not registering when people pickup some demonic essences...

For me, this occurred on the Ancestral Forge level, where there is an unskippable encounter with an elite hell knight, in front of a switch objective.

I killed the Hell Knight on my original attempt and believe the upgrade registered when I first absorbed it. However, I missed the switch objective and died while exploring another part of the map.

On reviving, I was placed at the checkpoint before the elite demon encounter. The gold I'd picked up after death, remained in my inventory. Also, the wolf statues I destroyed, remained destroyed.

However I did not have the secret key I'd picked up, nor did I have the demonic essence in my inventory.

How I know it is bugged and steps I've taken

After killing the demon for a second time, the health upgrade did not register. I considered this may be due to not killing it with an execution, so I restarted from checkpoint and killed the demon again, this time with an execution... no essence

After completing the level, I went back to the stage to give it another try. No essence. The map screen continues to show "0/1".

I'm not the only one experiencing this issue either

Below are a series of threads I've found, where the author refers to a similar issue. I will attempt to update this over time - please comment below if you've experienced a similar issue or have found other threads!

Thread: [BUG] Demonic Essence at Ancestral Forge bug
Author: Grzegorz Stasiak | ULOM geyming
Link: https://steamcommunity.com/app/3017860/discussions/0/560246502201512400/
Chapter Effected: Chapter 9 - Ancestral Forge
Notes: Collected health upgrade, died before checkpoint, shows 0/1 on subsequent attempts

Thread: I phisically cant 100% this game
Author: pb+rocket enjoyer
Link: https://steamcommunity.com/app/3017860/discussions/0/560246502201537881/
Chapter Effected: Chapter 10 - The Forsaken Plains
Notes: Unable to get the armour essence, killed elite multiple times.

Thread: Chapter 10 Bugged
Author: DEXTER MORGAN
Link: https://steamcommunity.com/app/3017860/discussions/0/560246171171296940/
Chapter Effected: Chapter 10 - The Forsaken Plains
Notes: Unable to get health essence, killed elite multiple times

Thread: Hellbreaker progress stuck at 99%
Author: Thonkaro
Link: https://steamcommunity.com/app/3017860/discussions/0/560246171171388129/
Chapter Effected: Chapter 11 - Hellbreaker
Notes: Unable to get armour essence, killed elite multiple times

Thread: Chapter 15 demonic essence health bug
Author: HumbledWaifu
Link: https://steamcommunity.com/app/3017860/discussions/0/560246171171413153/
Chapter Effected: Chapter 15 - City of Ry'uul
Notes: Health objective isn't tracking, maximum health increased to 180

Thread: chapter 15 City Of Ryul
Author: Velocityy
Link: https://steamcommunity.com/app/3017860/discussions/0/560246502201600794/
Chapter Effected: Chapter 15 - City of Ry'uul
Notes: Health objective isn't tracking, multiple attempts

Is the issue just impacting objective tracking?

HumbledWaifu's thread states that while the objective hasn't tracked, their health has increased to 180. I'm not that far into the game yet and won't have time to research the maximum health level at level 15, until later today.

After work, I'll also provide my post Ancestral Forge health level.

Update: Confirmed - It's an objective tracking issue

Just started Chapter 10 (The Forsaken Plains) and can confirm my health is at 140 - I have 100% on all levels up to Chapter 9 (Ancestral Forge). I have collected health upgrades from the following maps:

• Chapter 2: Hebeth (1/1)
  
• Chapter 5: The Holy City of Aratum (1/1)
  
• Chapter 7: Siege - Part 2 (1/1)
  
• Chapter 9: Chapter 9 - Ancestral Forge (0/1)

Assuming each upgrade increases your maximum health by +10 and the base is 100 health, I've increased by +40 but only three of my essences have tracked correctly.

[Lord Bennington]

Hopefully this thread doesn't get buried under "the game is a flop" threads.

[Lord Bennington]

+1 post added

[Thonkaro]

This is unfortunately true and it's visible quite immediately that this is not a joke, or a misplay of some sort on our part. The game refuses to track the objective, as it has "added" it once before but the checkpoint reloaded the tracker, except the system knows we already got the upgrade from the map, so somewhere somehow not everything is being updated correctly.

[Lord Bennington]

Originally posted by Thonkaro:

This is unfortunately true and it's visible quite immediately that this is not a joke, or a misplay of some sort on our part. The game refuses to track the objective, as it has "added" it once before but the checkpoint reloaded the tracker, except the system knows we already got the upgrade from the map, so somewhere somehow not everything is being updated correctly.

Thanks for confirming here Thonk!

[Lord Bennington]

Update: I've submitted a ticket with Bethesda and included a link to this thread. Hopefully they'll check it out.

[Grzegorz Stasiak | ULOM geyming]

all achievements can be unlocked tho, it's only "visual" in doom