Has the threshold-pickup on the artefact been fixed?
I've been searching online whether the ult pick-up threshold mechanic has been fixed or not, since it is quite annoying design-wise and unintuitive. His point is to stack the ultimate to make it stronger and snowball, yet if you try to enhance his ultimate you have less time to pick it up. If you die before you pick up the artefact you are practically guaranteed to not be able to pick it up due to the timer.
Additionally, the artefact only seals itself once the whole duration ends, so you are punished for hitting more people with your ultimate by having to wait 15 seconds to pick it up, at which point you will die, so congrats! You played yourself and now have had 2 stacks for the past half an hour.