Charybdis III - Invisible creature - Ghost Grazer

[Optimal]

Well at least they got the name right, but it's just lazy or they forgot to load in the graphics for it. Doesn't show up on scanner highlights but if you just happen to mouse over it in scanner mode, you can scan it or xeno-social it and kill and harvest it. Super annoying when you're trying to get that planet scanned.

edit: Just tried Sense Star Stuff power and it doesn't even show up, this has got to be a bug.

edit 2: Saved and loaded as Cellar_Cat has stated and he's right, it shows up but now can't kill it or loot it anymore, at least I can scan and find them easier now! Looks like the tip of some sort of creature and the rest of it is stuck in the terrain, but they're all consistently like that now.

edit 3: Seems that when I alt-tabbed out to write follow ups here, they disappeared again from scan or Sense Star Stuff. Definitely a bug.

[Cellar_Cat]

Try saving and reloading near it, I've had that work for invisible objects before so maybe it would fix a creature too.

[LeftIsBest-James]

Invisible? I really hadn't noticed. I vaguely remember the name.

I've scanned over 25 systems to 100% now. Scanner(not gun)+jetpak is my default POV.

[Martin]

Originally posted by Optimal:

Well at least they got the name right, but it's just lazy or they forgot to load in the graphics for it. Doesn't show up on scanner highlights but if you just happen to mouse over it in scanner mode, you can scan it or xeno-social it and kill and harvest it. Super annoying when you're trying to get that planet scanned.

Yeah they are actually invisible.. there are creatures and aliens that can camouflage themselves to near perfect invisibility.. not just cloaked.. the pirates.. also use camo gear.. only they tend to be too aggressive to use it effectively.

Or course you sometimes also get critters in rocks, doors, under map etc but those are very rare.

[Larkin]

Most likely this is a glitch. These are actually the flying bird/bat things. The ones on the ground are glitched out. Funnily enough most of mine are stuck in the ground and alot of the roaches are flying.

Doing a save and reload near a flying roach seems to spawn a pack of them you can quickly scan.

[Incendiary Bear]

I haven't been able to spawn them at all

[darnath_snowstalker]

i've just been there yesterday its not as glitch they are camo dinos lol...just lucky they are not predatory types...

[LeftIsBest-James]

heh.. not so easy when the tables are turned, right?
fun tho.

It's not a bug:
The fauna is has chameleon ability too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiVVzxoPTtg

[Old Man Gamer (OMG)]

Some creatures are camouflaged. If it is those, it is not a bug.

[chipartist]

Definitely a bug. I had searched for hours (also collecting Copper, though, so not wasted) until I happened to mouse over one of the invisible critters. Save & reload made a large number visible, mostly flying about but not a few just above ground level, sometimes animated, sometimes not. They are bat-like flyers, peaceful, and once revealed, can be seen over a fairly large area. They are most easily seen in the Frozen Dunes biome.

[aandaie]

I did the saving and reloading near where I "heard" those creatures, which FINALLY worked. It was DRIVING ME NUTS; their chirping mocked me!

That last creature there is a chore(that stupid Ghost Grazer bird thing.)

[bknowles012]

Found several flying and clearly visible during sunrise. Must be a loophole in the graphics, making the creatures visible in the angled (early) sunlight. Was able to easily scan them to complete the survey.

[Maligner]

I never alt tab. I always save and close, take a break to do other things, then when I run it again I stick to the game. I assumed a new game might not handle the alt-tab seamlessly. Some games are kind of finicky this way.

[HeyYou]

Alt+Tab works fine for me. The game runs in a window in any event. I don't think DX12 supports native full screen.... I seem to remember reading that somewhere.... (here??) I always save first though. :D