Metal Shards disappear (1000)

[Eric Rimmer]

Hi I have this problem. After a long time, this is the game that i really enjoy. But what happened me twice is that I lost all my shards. And not by crafting.

I was saving my shards for buying a gear. I had 1000+ shards and suddenly, I found out I have 0 shards. I was saving again, and after two Cauldrons I had 1000+ shards again, but then after a while I say that I have only 2 shards. I wasn't buying anything so...

This really demotivates me. Does that happened to anyone? I really want to play the game, but this is a serious problem and I don't feel like playing it anymore.

[SoulCreek]

You need shards to craft arrows. Probably that's your 'problem'?

[Eye of Newt]

Originally posted by SoulCreek:

You need shards to craft arrows. Probably that's your 'problem'?

That's a *LOT* of arrows to be crafted. I do definitely suspect something is up with the savegame function here. People have reported the game occasionally seems to corrupt game saves and this was a PS4 problem too.

[SoulCreek]

Originally posted by Eye of Newt:

That's a *LOT* of arrows to be crafted.

Depends! You need 10 shards for 5 hardpoint arrows without the 'ammo crafting perk' (don't know the name of it right now). If you use the '3 arrow perk' you need a lot of arrows depending on the difficulty you are playing on and your aiming skill. ;) The playsytyle is important in this case. If you don't use other weapons, ammo types or don't care about weaknesses... ;)

[Grizzly UK]

Crafting bag upgrades also consumes metal shards. For example, to craft all 4 stages for just one Quiver or Ammo Pouch would consume a total of 650 metal shards. There are a total of 13 ammo containers, so that's 13 x 650 = 8,450 metal shards consumed. Then there are the other bag upgrades: Outfits Satchel, Weapons Satchel, Resources Satchel and Modifications Satchel each consumes a total of 250 metal shards for all 4 upgrades so that's another 1,000 metal shards; Potions Pouch consumes 350 metal shards for all 3 upgrades.

So, to fully upgrade all 13 ammo containers, all 4 satchels and the Potions Pouch will consume a grand total of 9,800 metal shards (plus all the other materials of course)! Add all those metal shards consumed when crafting arrows and it's really easy to burn through a few thousand metal shards without even noticing!

[Eric Rimmer]

Thanks, but I am familiar with game mechanics, I red a lot of articles. I was looking for some way how to loose all metal shards. I am firing only with one type of ammo, so I dont craft that much, I have all, upgrades. Well I am gonna give one more try and really try to watch my metal shards. Maybe I wasn't paying too much attention to usage of them.

BTW, thanks again for your input :)

[Eric Rimmer]

Yeah, now I am starting to realize, I was upgrading a lot. So maybe it's really not the games fault. Thanks guys

[Tickles]

You gotta pay your taxes. The goverment took those shards from your bank account.

[Jeslis]

That final ammo storage upgrade for each ammo is like 500 shards. The previous one is like 75 (maybe 125?) so its a jump for sure.

[BrunoTheSigma]

Guys it's not that we're not paying attention to the game mechanics... it looks like it's really going to be a BUG in the game.

I see this is not today's topic, but it's still very topical, because actually Horizon Zero Dawn Remaster was recently released, and I actually encountered the bug within this new one. Seems like it has inherited a problem... (At the moment, Patch 1.3 is the latest, there's still a chance they've already realized it and going to fix it soon...)

If you're at a merchant and you sell certain resrouces/weapons and your metal shards get above 1000, they simply just reset (I guess overflow) and your sold stuff doesn't get back into your inventory either.

At first I was just wondering what the 9 hells was that... I must be a total idiot... but when the second time it came up, I knew it... It's a good old bug, nothing special, just annoying as always...

But guys, I won't waste any more time here, I have to report this to Sony (after all, it's been about 4 years from when the game has been released )

[Cervateus]

I just had something similar happen to me. I'm not sure what triggered it, but I just lost 13000 shards.

I've got a short video of me somewhere in the beginning of "The Grave-Hoard" mission, having over 13K shards, and now if I use a save to get back to a later part of that same mission I have 252 shards. I would have crafted some ammo in between those points, but there's no way that I used up all those shards. So definitely a bug.