Dragon Age: The Veilguard Unique Chests bugged out and unable to be opened.

@Darkwing_Duckie I've done this - finished the Heart of Corruption quest before Weisshaupt. Got the dagger working again after the siege. Circle pommel of the dagger was visible on my character again too. Went back and opened all the chests and interacted with all the statues I've left for later. Continued on playing, but when I went to go do the Davrin's The Cauldron quest, the Evanuris statue at the Hossberg Wetlands (explored the area before entering The Cauldron) was not glowing. Can't interact with it. Bug rears its head again. Back to not being able to open unique chests and interact with statues. Even with the precaution of doing the Heart of Corruption, the bug will recur. But I hope it works out for your playthrough and I wasn't just being extra careful in mine.

I've been checking on threads in hopes of any updates or if someone had found a definitive fix. I've been actively avoiding companion quests that I know have unique chests at the end since some are at locations you cannot go back to after finishing them. It's really frustrating playing like this. I hope a patch will come soon and it actually addresses this issue in the patch notes.

Replying to keep up to date on this.

My dagger bugged out, then I did Weisshaupt, then it bugged out again shortly after. As a completionist, this very much frustrates me, so I am feeling everyones pain.

From my observations, the game is registering the dagger when you use it for the companion abilities, but not for anything else that requires it. To make matters more convoluted for me, the loop of my dagger HAS been appearing on my character, but still the chests, walls, altars and shrines cease to respond. I even created a separate save and used cheats with it, in case that allowed some form of override, but alas, it has not worked.

Certainly hope we can get some form of resolution on this quickly, because, like others in this thread, I'm playing this to chill after long hours at work, and the frustration of a core function of the game not working induces stress, and thus makes me not want to actually play. ☹️

New patch went public. Checked on SteamDB. Let's see if they've actually fixed this bug and address it on the patch notes.

EDIT:

• Fixed instances where Rook forgot they already had the lyrium dagger and could not interact with treasure chests and altars.

It's included in the patch notes! I hope this actually fixes the bug!

I'll give the new patch a shot later. - But now I'm torn, go back to my save with the most progress vs staying where I rolled back.

Any idea if the new patch fixed the dagger for save files that have already lost it?

Really hope I can just load the save I have and save 12 hours 🤞

@Darkwing_DuckieIt seems to have fixed the issue entirely from I can see, but I haven't thoroughly explored that. But the 2 save files I have both could access the chests and things since the patch, so fingers crossed it applies to all the saves.

Thanks! I can confirm the bug has been fixed me for me and the dagger is usable. - (It's still not visually there on my character; but I can live with a visual bug if the altar/chest interactions still work as intended) - Very glad they patched this and saved me a dozen hours.