[Submitted 68975] Shadow creature corpses are disappearing almost immediately.

04/11/2021 23:48
Title: Shadow creature corpses are disappearing almost immediately.
Reproduction Rate: Tonight almost 100%
Blocker? Well, makes killing them for drops worthless
Details: Went to Spindleskog normal and hard and killed several Onus and Feram Cavas (Shadow critters) and the corpses are disappearing either immediately or within 15 seconds or so. I saved the videos if you need for me to actually show you, but would rather not hassle with that. Please just believe someone who has over 18k hrs in SotA.
Steps to Reproduce: Go kill shadow creatures in Spindleskog and you'll see.
User Specs:
OS: Windows 10 (10.0.0) 64bit
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz (12) System RAM: 16296
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 GPU RAM: 8079
SotA.Win.64.1376.Date.04.09.21
Area: Mistrendur_R1_Spindelskog/Normal
Area Display Name: Spindelskog (Normal)
Loc: (-179.8, 214.4, 196.3)
Debug: TWlzdHJlbmR1cl9SMV9TcGluZGVsc2tvZ3xOb3JtYWx8KC0xNzkuODQsIDIxNC4zODgsIDE5Ni4zMjcpfCgwLCAtMC43LCAwLCAtMC43MTQpfC0yNzAuODg0M3wyNC4yNTU1N3w3LjQ4NTIxMw==

 

@FrostII
I just tested this with about 20 or so kills across the 3 loc's listed, and the corpses all stayed around and were lootable. Was there a particular location it was happening for you?
Loc: (-154.209, 200.3, -179.644)
Loc: (-73.512, 204.749, -160.92)
Loc: (149.172, 251.28, -32.248)

 

Thanks for following up, @Echondas - much appreciated.
Subsequently I have taken the time to make a movie of the 3 clips that show both location (via ingame map) and the corpses vanishing: The audio explains what you're seeing.
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Those look like Vigorem Cavas and on both normal and hard - I tested with the Feram Onus and Feram Cavas in Normal mode. I just tried again on some of the spiders on Hard mode, but couldn't repro.. The only difference was I wasn't in Open mode. I'll keep trying.. but if you have some secret sauce that can make it happen 100% of the time, that would be helpful. Thanks!

 

Well, the movie confirms this bug report, does it not ?
You can see how the corpses disappeared right there !
I was in Open Mode, btw........

I'm going back there now and see if it happens again.

Well, I went back and no Vigorem Cavas's disappeared, however, two Ghost corpses did.
I have that movie as well.

@Echondas Did you mark this report as "Needs more Info" ?

 

Yes, i marked it as needs more info since i was waiting for a response and some more info on how to repro the bug. Your video proves it happened to you but I am waiting to mark it verified until i can reproduce it myself with some more exact steps to send to the devs. I don’t want to get it submitted and then have it come back as unable to reproduce..

I am thinking the secret sauce might be Open mode - i was testing in private. I will try to repro it myself again in Open mode in the morning and see if that does the trick. If you get to it first, try in private mode and see if it happens ?

thanks!

 

@FrostII Question: Was anyone else in the scene with you when this happened in Open mode?

 

I also had this happen in Normal scene, while in Party Mode. I did not have other people with me, but I did have a summoned Earth Elemental. I had killed one of the shadow Wolves. After killing it, a few seconds later the body just disappeared.

This was a few months ago however. But the exact thing shown in the video happened to me. My character is melee, bludgeon. Just if any of that might help.

 

I've had this happen on many occasions.

 

We need to try and find the secret sauce if possible before Submitting it to the Dev. queue.. I just tried in Open mode (switched from Party) .. no corpses vanished for me like in the video. I'll try again with an earth elemental and using bludgeon.

 

This happens to me also occasionally, Its been less the last month. I will pay attention to where I was/how long on..to try help narrow it down. It was solo with me.

 

Was just wondering if this occurs a little deeper into the scene? The video shows kills very near the totems at the entrance, perhaps the corpses land within the "protected" area.

 

It seems that there are specific spawn points. If you kill a creature from a specific spawn point and that point spawns another creature then the corpse will vanish. At least that's what seems to be happening to me.

 

The quick answer is no, I was alone in the scene. (In my videos you can see my "Nearby Players" window, just above the map window on the right side of my screen.)

 

My 2nd video - which I'm including here - shows that I was farther into the scene with Ghosts this time (as you can see on the ingame map with my very small arrow).
The video below is about as short as I could make it, and consists of 2 clips of my killing Ghosts and the corpses disappearing .
There is no sound, but I believe the clips speak for themselves.



**EDIT** Below is the portion of the map enlarged to show the area where the Ghost corpses disappeared .

 

In none of my "vanishing corpses" encounters did a new spawn appear.

 

Then I have no clue.

 

Question: Has anyone seen this happen in a scene besides Spindleskog or one that isn't a selectable difficulty level scene?

 

@Lord Stein Have you ever killed a mob in Spindleskog ?
I'm asking because the question was asked above about whether or not this has happened to anybody in a scene OTHER than Spindleskog.

 

I killed a bunch of ghosts in that area, and the corpses all stayed around. I even tried with a pet crocodile, in case that was what triggered it. Maybe I'm not killing them fast enough? Maybe we can try grouping up sometime to see if we can repro it together?