Game mode: Online Private
Type of issue: Bug
Server type: PvP
Region: US
Short description:
When walking around the world, it is possible to walk in on an area where the world is not loading. The player-built structures on top of that land load fine, but all the parts of the map itself do not load. In some cases this results in those parts of the world being completely invisible whilst in other cases it results in a low-quality texture and LOD environment.
Walking onto this environment is always practically impossible as the player-character automatically goes into the falling animation but does not actually fall through where the ground is supposed to be, which thus results in an âup and down stutteringâ motion.
Visual examples of this bug are linked below.
Case #1: Invisible part of world #1
Case #1: Invisible part of world #2
Case #1: Invisible part of world #3
Case #1: Visible part of world which belongs to the above 3 screenshots
Case #2: Invisible part of world #1
Case #2: Invisible part of world #2
Case #2: Invisible part of world #3
Case #2: Visible part of world which belongs to the above 3 screenshots
Low-LOD & -texture example #1
Low-LOD & -texture example #2
Low-LOD & -texture example #3
Please provide a step-by-step process of how the bug can be reproduced. The more details you provide us with the easier it will be for us to find and fix the bug:
- Walk around in the world. At first everything seems normal. It can often take 5, 10, 20, sometimes more than 30 minutes to get this issue.
- Keep on walking.
- Eventually youâll just walk in on an area that doesnât seem to load, even when you walk up right at the edge of the âborderâ.
Server info
- The server this bug is experienced on has about 25 to 35 players on average, but the bug also happens during low-population moments when only a handful of players are online.
- Many different players experience the problem from many different places in the world with many different PC specifications.
- The serverâs host has already been contacted to check if it was maybe caused by any server performance or connection issues which is not the case.
- The server runs several mods. However, these mods have been there for a long while before the bug ever started. We did change the modlist a bit when this problem started occuring and now recently weâve also been playing around with the modlist, taking out some mods to test if they were the cause of this bug which is not the problem. We did not run the server without mods, but due to the fact that the current mods were all present even before the bug happened we do not think this is necessary. Even then, we tried loading the server without the mods we thought could have to do with the issue, but the bug persisted.
This is the mod list:
âPippi - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=880454836
âConan Sexiles- https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1206493209
âImmersive Sexiles Server Mod - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1583363587
âPickup+ - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=864199675
âImmersive Sexiles Stacks x1000 - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1164166523
âDeco & Placeables - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1414531358
âPrimal Armors: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1427509507
âWonderbody - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1568430878
âCharEditLite - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1366358141
âRP Aesthetics (RA) - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1542041983
âGlowing Eyes & More - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1235166432
âExtremeColors - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1388315898
âFashionist (1.0 compatible)- https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1159180273
âPrude Nude Compatibility Version - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1447394888
âCNC- https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1407413080
âShendelzareâs Secret - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1582336144
âThrall Wars Decorations- https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1701455174
âSlaverMod- https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1386982683
âRoleplay - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1751468797
âTheft is Illegal - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1778340084
âExilesExtreme- https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=933782986(edited)
âThrall War Dungeon Mod- https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1326031593
âForbidden Desires Server Mod- https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1705247316
Further important information
I have done my own troubleshooting so far and will share some rather important details about this bug below.
- The bug started to occur since the latest DLC and seemed to have gotten worse over time, perhaps due to the recent Hotfix.
- The bug seems to only occur on a server, not in singleplayer
- The bug seems to only occur on a server with at least a few but preferably many player-buildings
- For some reason, the bug happens more consistently when simply walking/running through the world rather than using the admin-option âFlyâ to swiftly fly through the map.
- The bug can be âfixedâ by re-logging or killing the character and returning to the area or using the admin map-teleport option on/near the same position. In short: it seems like the server/client needs some help with âforcingâ to reload the area.
- The bug seems to consistently occur when the player has run through an area with many (large) buildings and it seems to occur less in areas where there are less (large) buildings.
- Several different people of the private server community on other private servers seem to experience the same issues as there have been a fair bit of talk about it, though not a whole lot of forum-reports it seels. However, I did find this bug-report that is somewhat (but not completely) related: BUG- Huge chunking missing in my building and more chunks not loading
Even though the forum-rules state to not make a new post for the same problem, I decided to still do it since I feel like the information given in here is more in-depth plus we do not experience any buildings breaking, or at least not as far as Iâve heard.
Finally, a suggestion
Due to the nature of the bug and the ways it can be temporarily âfixedâ (see important information above), I have reason to believe that the following suggestion might at least be an easy work-around for players who do seem to experience these problems.
Basically: add an option to force the client to reload the world around the player. This could be done through a hotkey combination or a console command.
This isnât an actual âfixâ of course, but it would be extremely useful rather than requiring players to re-log or kill themselves.
This is all the information I have on the bug for now. I aim to troubleshoot this problem more and if I have any more findings I will share them in this topic with you all.