Especially in the unamed city. Snake boss falls through floor more times than I care to count and never comes back even if you go away and come back.
Red mother falls through the stairs in front of her and does a submarine. Then when killed never pops up. Sometimes she comes back if you go away and come back but sometimes not.
To reiterate, why is this still a thing and why is my time being wasted by this bug to end up with nothing off a boss.
Try to stand where they submerged and look up, it helps. They donāt fall deep into the void I checked it (admin panel -> ghost). But then you wonāt always be able to open their inventory, in those cases loot all their stuff and sort the junk out later.
While its a good thing that they are managing their time, losing 100% of your time invested in one of the core parts of the game (killing bosses) is a pretty big dealā¦
@Skillo I havenāt had a boss disappearing for a while but I have seen it being an issue on modded servers. And since you are talking about how much time was wasted, could you please let us know how long it took you to kill the disappearing snake? From my experience from porting to UC to going inside the snake room and killing it, it would take you 5 mins and this is with picking flowers on the way.
Donāt get me wrong, bosses going undermesh are an issue even though it doesnāt happen often but there are much more pressing issues to be addressed when it comes to the mesh.
Yes, around 5 minutes too. This game is about killing bosses, gathering materials, levelling up and fighting stronger bosses/building. If any of those things are disrupted by bugs - like this one, its a big deal. Harumanās grotto for instance, its a niche area and mechanic that very little people care, use or even know about. Bosses? Everyone kills them. Why is that not in higher priority than haruman?!
And time management only would become an issue if we know that this fix would take weeks to do, which may or may not even be the case.
We dont know is the point. Funcom does. When it makes sense it will get fixed just like everything else that gets fixed. Its not a conspiracy against the red mother.
Because not everything in game development requires the same level of effort and time. And because they have more than one person working on different parts of the game at a time, which their assigned roles are based on their areas of expertise (coding, art, design, testing, etc).
Based on my limited knowledge (because, Iām a designer, not a coder, nor a Graphics coder), my guess is bosses, other NPCās, thralls, and whatever else falling through the ground is a physics issue. And UE4 with version 4.15 has a lot of physics issues (looking at you, Apex, which, donāt even get me started). Newer versions of UE4 have better tools and code for physics simulations. And no, before itās even asked, you canāt simply update the engine version, and is very (very) rarely done when a game is post 1.0 release. Itās not like a Windows Update.
In other words, my suspicion is that itās a physics bug caused by the version of UE4. Theyāve done some tricks over the last couple of years to resolve some of those errors, but they may not all be solvable (or at minimum, solvable that doesnāt require an extended amount of time resolving it, which means, not working on other things).
And wouldānt setting that clear to players be a better thing than just not saying anything at all? We have no idea if that is not a priority for them because they donāt care or because its an engine issue that takes long time. We donāt know. Ofc, you have some knowledge and can assume it, but iām talking overall.
Its frustrating, annoying at best, look at such issues and only hope that ony day it will suddently be fixedā¦or notā¦and we donāt know why.
Yeah that probably is bad PR but forums filled with different people asking for the same fixes insnāt good either, imo.
Still, thank you for taking your time to reply, i really appreciate it.
Yes but there are a bunch or questions asked every day, some new some old. For questions related to coding, iām sure they like to ask the appropriate people before responding.
Until Funcom fixes these problems find a work around like for instance Iām sure many players here know that the red mother goes into the stairs so players solution keep her on the sands another example the Barrow King if you kill him on the left side of the room heāll go into the floor make sure you keep him in the right side of the room and kill him there ⦠if youāve been playing this game as long as I have you figure out ways to work around the majority of the problems yes itās frustrating at times to find the temporary solution but what else can you do lol
The snake in the UC loves to do the harlem shake.
Itās funny, because Iā m a single player only (ghost mode on, problem solved) but I find it quite annoying - sometimes you canāt find the creatures because they just skyrocketed to another dimensionsā¦