Thanks for the work-around, still doesn’t help me to get the staff activated though, as the corpse is unreachable. In a lot of ways this bug is somewhat of a game breaker, I hope that they’ll eventually fix it, but I’m not going to hold my breath. Having now thoroughly “explored” the tower I can safely say that the collision mesh is an absolute mess in this area.
I know everyone has their preferred playstyle, but have you considered changing your strategy just for this one boss? It’s not too hard to kill the Albino Bat using daggers.
Tried a new strategy, attacking with a spear. Worked for a short while, as in the bat was taking damage, but then the bat flew up and dived down to attack, yet again straight through the ground mesh and into the interior of the tower.
Since one of the bats main attack modes seems to be flying up and then swooping down I don’t think daggers will help much either, unless I can kill it before it decides to use its swoop attack.
Strange thing is that I’ve had no problem killing it in my SP game, just seem to be having the problem on this Official PVE server.
That’s weird. I didn’t realize it happened every time he did that attack. That really sucks.
The weirdest thing is that I’ve played in singleplayer, on 3 official PVE-C servers and at least 4 private PVE(-C) servers, and I’ve never seen that. But I play on PC, so it might be a PS4-only bug?
I’m starting to wonder, since the collision problems don’t manifest in the SP game, if this could be due to some form of lag since there are some very large player-built structures next to the tower. My character sinks into the mesh of the tower in a number of places but this doesn’t seem to happen in SP, where there is only 1 small structure built near the foot of the tower.
That might very well be the case. The tech certainly seems to work that way – the game takes some shortcuts to avoid round trip communication with the server. They squeeze out some perf that way, but then you get problems like the Abysmal Remnant going out of alignment between client and server, or Albino Bat sinking into the terrain
I don’t know if I can offer any decent advice here. Are those player-built structures all around the tower? Maybe you can climb up a side that isn’t too laggy and fight the bat there?
