BUG - Gianna dies/disappears in Heist

Apologies if this is already known - but I could not find anything about this in the thread.

What I saw was my Spectral Shield Throw shot bounce off an enemy and hit Gianna, who was in the animation required to open a door/transform into the imitation of an enemy. The hit obliterated her; I remember her disappearing, shattered by my cold damage (I just hope this is not me being biased in what I think I saw).

On the spot, the rest of the heist doors requiring a rogue could not be opened but I could initiate/request for the job to start. Exiting the contract and coming back in, I quickly noticed that:
A) Gianna would not respawn, but the portrait was still present where it should be; and I could see the animation of one of her abilities play in empty spots around me where she should've been.
B) all locked doors lost the job symbol (and were correctly not openable at all; and I could not request for them to be opened).

I never noticed on any of my past characters a skill (and especially SST) bounce off of an enemy onto Gianna before, and I play quite a bit of Heist (and have played SST quite a lot as well); at least not before today. I have attempted to reproduce hitting or bouncing off enemies and onto Gianna for a small bit, but got no results (perhaps luckily for me). Notably, all bounces in the conscious testing I did afterwards would always happen during the animation for opening doors but AFTER she had transformed into an enemy; while I remember the hit that caused her to disappear happening during that bit of the door opening process.

Video proof of after-the-fact: https://youtu.be/xr1OxfpWRHQ

I originally opened a Reddit thread to collect information and start putting the word out there as I did more testing; it contains much of the same information described above, but it can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/x7z91x/bug_gianna_died_during_a_door_opening_animation/

Thank you for your attention,
Best regards,

Kiten

It happened again - this time I filed in a bug report

1,257,233,023

Not entirely sure it happened the same way it happened when I first posted though

https://imgur.com/a/EUJ22Uk

EDIT: I tried to go for the other door hiding loot- and she randomly reappeared. I can now complete the contract. https://imgur.com/a/rUjGBpv

Same instance as before, did not attempt to exit the area and enter it again after she died/disappeared.

I thinks it is not a bug. She disappear and reappear occasionally. All doors requiring deception, opens automatically after her disappearance. It is probably, how she works in heist. Nothing unusual. It raises question marks at first though.

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bebaxt wrote:

I thinks it is not a bug. She disappear and reappear occasionally. All doors requiring deception, opens automatically after her disappearance. It is probably, how she works in heist. Nothing unusual. It raises question marks at first though.

You might want to read the first post and/or check the video evidence :)

Checked your video. It disappears as usual. However somehow your doors are bugged and not opening. Never happened to me.