Game mode: Online official Type of issue: Bug Server type: PvP Region: North America
I beat a thrall unconscious in Sepermeru and his body vanished when he hit the ground. I clicked around with my rope to try and find him and I occasionally saw a life meter but couldn’t grab him. I ended up shutting the game down, logged back in, and his body appeared and I was able to drag him away.
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This has happened to me (PC Soloplay) many times at a variety of locations, including Set City. I have also seen unconscious thralls despawn. Either they have despawned or they have fallen under the mesh. I would like to see it fixed. It’s disheartening when you’ve knocked out a T4 and can’t find them.
Workarounds that I have used are to leave render range then come back and to sign out then sign back in. If multiple unconscious thralls are desired and can be seen and therefore bound, I usually will equip the binding and drag them both for a very short distance so that the game “remembers” them. After that, I will leap frog the NPC’s, dragging one until my stamina bar runs low, then going back to get the other one and dragging it. I repeat this until both NPC’s are next to my wheel, and then place them inside.
This is definitely not related to this update, and has been a long-standing bug.
I’ve encountered it nearly every time I’ve played - unmodded server, modded server, official server, solo.
The thrall, when KO’d, simply has a chance to clip into the ground. I run into it less frequently by killing them (so the corpse behaves differently than the thrall), but it does (rarely, very rarely) happen.
I’d estimate this occurs 1 in 4 or 1 in 5 times when hunting thralls. It seems to have an equal chance of occurring whether you KO or your thrall KOs the NPC.
And it’s been an issue for at least a year, in my estimate, if not longer.