Feature Bug: Critical Quest Item Cannot Be Picked Up After Simultaneous Death with Boss

In poe2 v0.5, at the fortress gate encounter, I died at the same time as the mechanical monster. As a result, I was unable to pick up the **Burning Monolith Key**, which left me one key short. Now I have to clear the gate of another fortress just to collect all three keys, meaning each fortress permanently ends up missing one key.

I suggest removing the need to manually pick up the key. Instead, players could automatically receive the key by speaking with **Doryani** after the encounter.

Simultaneous deaths between players and bosses are very common, so I would also recommend applying the same change to other boss drops: either award the item directly through dialogue after the fight, or automatically send it to the player's stash/inventory when the boss is defeated. This would prevent progression issues caused by dying at the same time as a boss.

I'lll second this. I had similar issue with some act 2 boss that I managed to kill at same time I died. The loot it dropped vaporised right before my eyes.

I hope that is not working as intended as it would and is a s h i thing to do.

I recall similar things happening in this game the first time I played it on release in act 1.

Fix this nonsense please. Either that or make it clear that is intended punishment for death at same time boss encounter critter dies.