Bodies Disappearing After Killing

[elaxter]

Playing 2-player COOP (online) with my friend and we're running into an issue where zombie bodies are disappearing immediately after killing them, so we cannot loot them (especially frustrating when the zombie is carrying stuff).

Any configs I can change to assist this? I have the server set up with 16gb of memory.

[Beard]

Any mods enabled? Perhaps one of them is causing the problem.

[elaxter]

Originally posted by Beard:

Any mods enabled? Perhaps one of them is causing the problem.

I have several. One is Authentic Z which adds clothing to the world and zombies. It would make sense if it were zombies that had clothing from the mod, but even zombies with no modded materials disappear. One time a zombie disappeared for my friend but not for me.

However I've noticed this problem even without mods.

[Beard]

Are you able to reproduce it without mods in that case? Does it happen in any specific situations or with specific clothing items?

[Lofty]

Happens to us too, its a connection issue. Killing a zombie, they fall on the floor and they technically arn't dead, they are still wiggling and moaning... then POP. Vanish. If you restart the server they actually reappear, but yeah I'm guessing its a connection issue, game isn't quite communicating between everyone properly.

[elaxter]

Originally posted by Beard:

Are you able to reproduce it without mods in that case? Does it happen in any specific situations or with specific clothing items?

No specific cases. Zombie can be wearing the most basic of clothes and it still disappears.

Originally posted by Lofty:

Happens to us too, its a connection issue. Killing a zombie, they fall on the floor and they technically arn't dead, they are still wiggling and moaning... then POP. Vanish. If you restart the server they actually reappear, but yeah I'm guessing its a connection issue, game isn't quite communicating between everyone properly.

I'm inclined to believe this since I did see some zombies that had disappeared after coming through an area again.

[Dead Flag Blues]

Started having this issue after the recent update. Exactly as described in the post above. Killing a zombie and having it wriggling on the floor then vanishing unable to be looted, this happened to every single zombie killed. Quitting the server and relaunching it the bodies appear. I started killing again and had the zombies die but then would have corpses teleport to other tiles. This was tested with me hosting a server with only me in it. Is this a massive connection issue on my end and if so has anyone found any solutions?

[Dead Flag Blues]

Originally posted by Dead Flag Blues:

the post

Could it be mod related? Probably the server has like 150+ mods but I can't just start turning off every single thing one by one. This was not happening prior to .77 just to note again.

[Greb]

I've seen this issue too, recently. I was only testing two mods, Proximity Inventory and bikinitools, specifically in regards to the automatic mass corpse moving function and then Proximity Inventories ability to show all nearby loot in one simple window. I didn't want to report it because I was using mods, but since I've spotted this thread is up I just wanted to throw some chips onto the table, etc.

Essentially what I was witnessing were corpses coming in and out of existence very rapidly, I was watching the zombies flickering in the pile (about 900kg of corpses, give or take) like a bad texture, and I could see the loot rapidly vanishing and reappearing, with the total weight of all the corpses going up and down too. When I tried it loot the pile, my character got stuck in an endless looting animation where they'd take stuff (the green bar would fill up for each item) and then they'd not get anything for multiple attempts, and when they did get a few items I'd watch their capacity go from like 18kg to 26kg and then back down to 18kg again a few seconds later.

When I quit out and came back, walking over to the (still flickering) pile of corpses caused them to shift and teleport around, possibly back to their original places, it was odd for sure. A lot of them teleported into a nearby room and became stuck in the corner of it, like permanent shadows I couldn't figure out how to loot or grab.

Likely not helpful at all to you I know, sorry about that, but I just wanted to add a bit more legitimacy to the current situation or something. I've never seen anything like that before.

[Dead Flag Blues]

Not to spam too much but here are the debug files for a test just now where it's happening. Just a cursory view I see a lot of "NIL" errors and "zombie is stale".

https://tmpsend.com/GVfVMgP1

https://tmpsend.com/kXf926eE

^ These were from me the host and this someone who was joining to test (while having some problems just joining in itself)

https://tmpsend.com/GjgQ5FHN

[Beard]

Originally posted by Dead Flag Blues:

Not to spam too much but here are the debug files for a test just now where it's happening. Just a cursory view I see a lot of "NIL" errors and "zombie is stale".

https://tmpsend.com/GVfVMgP1

https://tmpsend.com/kXf926eE

^ These were from me the host and this someone who was joining to test (while having some problems just joining in itself)

https://tmpsend.com/GjgQ5FHN

Those errors are most likely all coming from mods, since the nil error is not something you see in standard vanilla logs ever basically.

[PapaSloppy]

Happens to me and my friend as well, i doubt its a mod issue since the single mod we use is player on map.

[Dead Flag Blues]

Another addition of weirdness in that test was the player quit the game after dying. I wanted them to rejoin and test a bit more so they did and they rejoined and the character I saw on my side was the person they died as. The name and the clothing was the same even though they respawned as a totally new person. They had a screenshot of their side and they were wearing different clothes. We were both seeing something completely different. Whatever you did really messed up data exchange or something between players/server. I know mods aren't your problem to deal with but a lot of this was not happening before this update so whatever you did to servers really messed up a lot of things.

[PapaSloppy]

Originally posted by Dead Flag Blues:

Another addition of weirdness in that test was the player quit the game after dying. I wanted them to rejoin and test a bit more so they did and they rejoined and the character I saw on my side was the person they died as. The name and the clothing was the same even though they respawned as a totally new person. They had a screenshot of their side and they were wearing different clothes. We were both seeing something completely different. Whatever you did really messed up data exchange or something between players/server. I know mods aren't your problem to deal with but a lot of this was not happening before this update so whatever you did to servers really messed up a lot of things.

Haven't had the character issue but me and my friend were having the exact same problem with zombies disappearing, highly doubt its a mod issue since he just got the game and the only mod we've used is player on map.

[cRITT]

Same issue here atm, happens with and without mods, both hosted and dedicated server.