>>9475116i must have missed those implications
>>9475188no clue about fallen order in particular. in the actual dark souls games specifically you leave a "bloodstain" on the ground that you just have to get to and pick up but you can only have one bloodstain at a time so if you die again your previous one gets replaced. for environment kills it'll leave your bloodstain on the last bit of stable, nonlethal ground you were standing on. i think code vein worked the same way
hollow knight is a game with a similar mechanic, but instead of leaving a bloodstain you leave behind a ghost or shadow or something that you have to kill to get your stuff back. in that game if you die along the way you lose everything without a chance to recover it until you kill the shadow
in my experience these things all tend to be very simple and straight forward. fallen order is notoriously buggy from what i've seen/heard, so if the system isn't working in some obvious way it's probably just glitched to all hell
