Before I submit a bug report, anyone else not able to rescue thralls on Vanilla, Official servers due the the LOADING FOLLOWER DATA! screen never updating?
I reported this in Beta, nice to see that was ignored. Ah, back the the standard Funcom development cycle. Break something that’s working, acknowledge bug report, release live with bug. Fix at some point, maybe.
P.S. Climbing got worse. Thanks for that.
Had it happen this morning. tried to rescue a thrall, still had 1.30 on the cooldown. Didn’t leave the menu and got the loading thrall data msg.
Tried a couple of times with no luck.
Backed out of menu and went back in and it worked.
As for climbing… its always been a lucky dip for me. I always do the gusts of wind spell if I’ve got a long climb on something a bit dodgy.
Regarding climbing: if you’ve equipped the new armor set from the Giant-King dungeon and are trying to climb walls in it, check out this thread—you might be making the same mistake. The Strange Properties of Giant King Armor
Not the case for me. It’s that climbing fails for the shortest distances.
It’s like they looked at the climbing bug and said:
“We can make it worse.”
And they did.
UPDATE: 2026-09-18:
Climbing and jumping appear to have been rolled back. Now climbing just sucks like it has since the last time they broke it, it no longer extra sucks.
I can confirm the Thrall-Rescue-Issue. Not possible for me on official or private servers. I just get “LOADING FOLLOWER DATA!” forever if I try to rescue a thrall. Also happens when I want to look at the stats of a remote thrall. So basically anything you do via the follower tab. Doesn’t matter if I’m alone on the server or the server is crowded.
I can’t confirm the climbing issue though.
Any evidence (either way) of whether this also applies on singleplayer? Just wondering if it’s a server issue or a system issue.
Just tested, Rescue works on Solo, does not work on Server.
My experience on the test server, I’m assuming it’s the same on live now, is that rescuing or viewing thrall stats would not work if the thrall was out of render range but worked fine if they were in render range. Obviously still useless but putting it here for completeness sake.
Thanks for the additional information.
That is, most decidedly, a change from the previous process where you could rescue a thrall anywhere on the map.
Thanks (I do not have time to test anything this week) - I’ll make sure to include this as a Multiplayer Server bug on the list rather than General Gameplay.
I lost all my minions, they simply vanished and the counter is at 0.
Are you on PC? Or possibly XBox? (I ask because several XBox users have reported losing all their thralls since the recent lockout - decay timers were paused while they were locked out of the servers, but it is looking like (at least on some servers) thrall decay might not have been paused.)
Some people are saying that casting slow fall causes climbing to be an exercise in frustration which lasts until the server restarts.
I haven’t tested and can’t confirm but it certainly seems worth checking.
Yes, there have been multiple reports that slowfall causes ‘increased gravity’ once it has worn off - that could well be a factor in additional climbing problems. (I don’t use sorcery so can’t test), but can confirm that climbing seems to work as normal in singleplayer (not that that means there couldn’t also be a bug with it on servers, or simply on other people’s machines than mine…)
