Falling through solid objects in my own base (such as foundations)

Kikigirl · 2024-03-30T15:26:32.657Z

Ya nothing seems to really matter here.

When I am logging in to a server, base or not, 3 things occur at random:

• I can hear me falling for a very long time during the loading screen
• It loads quick and I watch as I fall through the world and under the mesh
• Sometimes if I am in a base while loading in, I am stuck at the bottom of the base while my bed is high up as I usually log off near it. This is after I fell through the entire base.

On occasion I can actually walk around either under the mesh or at the bottom of my base. If I pull bracelet, roll, hit ESC and back out, it corrects my position sometimes. Other times I can pull out tools and walk around but I can’t interact with say, an elevator or follower, but I can climb.

I think these problems are connected. If I were to guess the game is having a hard time in determining position and for some when the loading is done it’s an approximation: so end up in a foundation.

Now with all of this said I do experience these issues more frequently in a base. It doesn’t matter how small, built up or decorated it is either. I can also log in on bare ground falling through the world.

Of note, this also happens often after dying too.

CeeDee · 2024-03-30T15:31:50.604Z

I have experienced the situation when logging in I am in the room under my bedroom (often between the pillars of my base on ground level). As you say, I can walk around but cannot interact with anything. After a few seconds it will normally pop me up to where I was supposed to be.

Yes, I have seen the long fall through fog followed by an “UGH” by my character and then I am where I was supposed to be and everything is find.

In this case I already was logged in, going about my business inside my base and suddenly I was waist deep inside a foundation. Previously I was able to get free by removing the foundation but in this case I couldn’t find the foundation for the menu to grab onto.

Kikigirl · 2024-03-30T15:33:04.346Z

Oh so you fell through while already playing!? So not triggered by log in or death?

CeeDee · 2024-03-30T15:35:09.798Z

Correct, I had been logged in for quite some time. I had just come in from somewhere, walked over to my furnace to put something in it and next thing I am inside the foundation. Not sure if I had pressed “E” on the furnace before this happened.

Kikigirl · 2024-03-30T15:37:59.779Z

Weh, it’s like the bug is cascading

Funcom is aware, there’s been many bug reports submitted.

For now the only workaround I know of to not destroy the foundation is summoning corpse.

Kikigirl · 2024-03-30T15:38:50.268Z

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CeeDee · 2024-03-30T15:41:49.006Z

I thought I had done that, will try again.

KorgFoehammer · 2024-03-31T03:43:36.372Z

Kikigirl:

Unfortunately this has been a known bug for a bit now, I think ever since one of the recent hotfixes.

Foundations not being behaving as solid surfaces when you log or when you just reached a place by teleport or death is something that happens since the game was launched. Some foundations (like insulated wood) it happens more often than others (stone one).

Have tried to mod fix it for a long time, but every update breaks the mod fix for it.

To have an idea, in dev streams the people not even mind that happening, because it seems they already embraced it as an emergent feature:

Xevyr · 2024-03-31T04:15:58.491Z

This is actually a new bug introduced in Chapter 3 (yes, similar things sometimes happened in the past, but never to this degree)

I think it’s related to the same “optimization” feature that culls roof / ceiling pieces when you’re not looking at them etc… not sure thou, they did appear at the same time… so that’s how it seemed, that it’s an overly aggressive optimization system aimed at consoles.

Basically if you place a bedroll or anything inside a building, you’ll often end up under the landscape while loading in during a teleport… it was never this bad in the past and yes, thralls seem to be more prone to sink into foundations etc.

CeeDee · 2024-03-31T08:35:16.000Z

This sounds plausible, it being a result of that optimization change. And yes, I have had to pull my thralls out of the floor on more than one occasion.

What do you think the chances are of this getting fixed?

Xanathoss · 2024-03-31T12:56:04.992Z

Talking about falling through fundation, here screenshoot of my today login into PVE server #1000 Exiled Lands, its standard that i accustomed to it.

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In opposite i will feel uneasy if there will be no me or thralls sink into fundation.

Xevyr · 2024-03-31T13:39:43.833Z

CeeDee:

What do you think the chances are of this getting fixed?

Well… the developers have been notified of it. They’re aware of all 3 of those things (sun shining through your roof when not looking / players falling through solid things when teleporting in / thralls sinking in foundations)

I do have the beta downloaded but I haven’t played on it enough to be sure if it improved, so I guess we’ll see in a few days But I’m hoping it did get fixed.

jmk1999 · 2024-03-31T13:51:12.946Z

Kikigirl:

Others have been creating honeycomb instead of foundations in the affected areas. Like pillars and ceilings.

I’ve been building with fence foundations and ceilings for a long time. This is the all-around best way to go imo. It’s helped a lot when cutting down on materials, increasing design diversity, and particularly when this bug showed up.

darf · 2024-03-31T13:52:53.998Z

I looked on the beta yesterday and I spawned inside a foundation in front of a bench. I had to destroy the foundation to get out which took out one bench with it.

So unfortunately, in the beta at least, it’s not fixed

KorgFoehammer · 2024-04-03T01:24:22.471Z

Dipped in foundations is not a new or “optimization” problem.

It has been around since day one, the devs on the video mention as much.

Some of my mod “learning curve” for many features come from the many fixes I used to avoid it. I have learned a lot in the times when modding primers and other resources did not even existed, in the search of a fix for that precise problem.

CeeDee · 2024-04-03T06:23:03.027Z

Perhaps, but not to this extent. According to steam I have played this game for 2625 hours. I was here well before version 3 of the game (Age of Sorcery) came out. I remember when the building hammer wasn’t a thing yet and removing building pieces gave you back half your resources.

Before Age of War chapter 3 I don’t remember ever falling through my ceilings or foundations.

Regards, C.

old-school-fool · 2024-04-03T06:45:26.742Z

In my opinion I think we are falling thru when the siege base is resetting, it really does seem to track with that update.

Mijit · 2024-04-03T08:49:31.647Z

KorgFoehammer:

Dipped in foundations is not a new or “optimization” problem.

I can’t say that everyone is experiencing the same thing, but I what I experienced today for the first time after the update certainly wasn’t the usual foundation dipping after a load or teleporting and I hadn’t experienced anything like it in the last few years of playing. I’d been running around my base for a few minutes checking for the usual post-patch catastrophies then after simply interacting with a closet I dropped through three stories of ceilings then plunged under three layers of foundations, had to demolish half of the building to swim out of the mess, at which point I was still stick in one layer of foundations and able to phase through doors that seemingly no longer wanted to be interacted with.

Saxons · 2024-04-03T11:33:40.507Z

having the same problem right now im stuck inside a foundation

KorgFoehammer · 2024-04-03T15:28:30.862Z

The problem of sticking inside foundations is old.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ConanExiles/comments/8whhko/i_keep_waking_up_inside_my_base_foundations_am_i/

steamcommunity.com

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Still need clarification ?

Oddly enough, there are posts of ALL UPDATES, I mean all, when you look for them in the search of reddit or the steam (using site:steamcommunity.com on google) saying that exact same inaccurate assertion: “Since update X, bla bla”.