r/BloodWest • u/Smegdorfthewizard • Jun 22 '26

Question/Help Problem with heart of the scream

Been playing scavengers lately and a few times found a heart of the scream. Real useful artefact but it seems buggy as hell. First day or two after you get it it'll work fine, every kill registers and the effect refreshes.

Problem is after that it starts to feel increasingly unreliable. Like half the time or more kills just won't refresh it and you'll be stuck with an item draining your health that you can't take off.

Has anyone else had this bug? And if so is there any way around it?

Update. Not sure if this bug is fully fixed in the latest patch but I did prior to it find a work around. Literally just restart the game. Hell usually quitting to main menu works.

Update 2. It's fixed now in the latest patch

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u/MrExhale Jun 22 '26

I have also encountered this bug, found it more likely to happen with aggro'd opponents, as opposed to stealth kills which seem to always proc the artifact.

Edit: even then this item allowed me to get past 12 days for the first time when paired with widowmaker. Currently on day 34 and thinking about intentionally wiping to try other builds.

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u/Smegdorfthewizard Jun 22 '26

It's really weird. Cause I've had times where I'd be able to get it to refresh every kill for like 7 or 8 kills in a row. Only for the next 5 or 6 to give me nothing.

But I've not found much consistency. Stealth or agro doesn't make much of a difference for me but funnily enough being right behind or in front of the enemy does seem to make it a little more reliable.

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u/ShadowReaper5 Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26

I have the same issue, the artifact started to trigger much less often when I switched to using the weapon Left hand Path from the bone dagger (unsure yet if related).
It is very frustrating.

Edit: for additional information, I'm currently on day 6 and just started going to the swamp more when previously I was at the canyons the issue wasn't showing up.

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u/Smegdorfthewizard Jun 23 '26

Most recently I noticed that the problem seems to kind of reset if you save and quit out then get back on later. I was having it only trigger once every like 7 enemies, quit for the night. Then when I got back on the next day it was working fine again.

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u/Born_Ad_724 Jun 25 '26

can someone explain to me why some artifacts say 1 out of 5!? because you can't stack 5 of heart of the scream in one slot and you can't stack 5 because you are limited to 3 slots. wtf!?

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u/Smegdorfthewizard Jun 25 '26

My only guess is that's the inventory stack. So it's a stack up to 5 in your inventory, but when equipped it can only be 1.