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[1.6.7] Artifacts with "Poltergeist's" in the name?
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2020 3:37 pm
by Jurriaan
After clearing a vault in Dreadfell, I suddenly see in my inventory
Poltergeist's Colaryem
Poltergeist's Spectral Blade
In the log I read
Character killed Poltergeist Colaryem!
Are artifact names changeable like this?
Re: [1.6.7] Artifacts with "Poltergeist's" in the name?
Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2020 3:51 am
by Zizzo
That's from the "living-weapons" vault that was
apparently way too common in Halfling Ruins before 1.6.7. Generally at least one of the opponents in the vault will be an animated artifact weapon (the "Poltergeist" opponents you saw), which will drop a copy of the corresponding artifact weapon with its name munged as you've seen (and I think a few ego tweaks, if I'm reading the code right). And this apparently bypasses uniqueness checks; I've got one character with both a Tirakai's Maul and a Poltergeist's Tirakai's Maul, obtained within a few levels of each other.
Re: [1.6.7] Artifacts with "Poltergeist's" in the name?
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2020 5:29 am
by GlassGo
Aso you can get corrupted fixed artefacts in areas spawned by tentacled trees - I got Steam Powered Helm that had different name and was stronger then usual.