Huge Bug When Encountering Final Boss In Multiplayer

[Spongy]

SOME SPOILERS AHEAD!!

Hey guys, just recently been playing The Forest with my friend Rob and we got to the end of the Sahara Research Lab.

*SPOILER* Here you encounter the young girl Megan, who then proceeds to turn into a mutant. While one person experiences the cutscene the other is dragged into one place to watch it happen. Now once she finished becoming a mutant that's when we should've began battle, however we were both frozen into place, he could only open his map and I could only hit and open my map - so, generally very useless. However we took no damage, became fully hungry and thirsty and continued to take no damage.

As you can't save anywhere in the lab, we are now having to give it another go all the way from the beginning. Fingers crossed it doesn't happen again, and be careful to anyone else giving this boss a go in multiplayer.

-Ash

[AimsKey]

Annoying to players isnt it? @DEVs

@Theforestgaming[C.M] Get em to create a couple of save points in the science labs already. These crashes and problems have been happening for ages. Reloading just outside the doors and outside the main bunker door entrance, would solve the annoyance!

I know ur reading this, plz get em too, thanks.

[Survivalist]

Saves are disabled in endgame for a reason; Allowing saving could cause a lot of issues in endgame due to the way assets are loaded there.

Are you able to reproduce the issue in which you are getting stuck in the megan scene? Was there anything you did specifically that might cause the issue?

[AimsKey]

Well surely there has to be some way Survivalist? I cant imagine that there isnt a solution "somehow". I mean i get it, if u mean like the way the whole end game loads, etc would have to be changed to allow it BUT, surely its worth it? Not shouting at u btw, just asking. ;)

Its not like just 1 person has had the issue. Hundreds, if not thousands of players must have had issues in the endgame and in most cases more than once! You might think that an exaggeration, but there are what 3,273,543 players it says on steam stats. Personally, ive had it happen 5 times that i cant finish. 1 time falling through the world from clicking the cutscene same time as my friend did, 3 times opening the main bunker door and 1 time at the boss. Also other various bugs along the way in the endgame, but not game breaking.

So seeing as its really a "large issue" not a small one. Can u ask the guys / gals one more time to look it over, see if there is a solution?

I mean even if it was literally that you were forced to save at the bunker door before you could open it, because most do not save at the door. I do all the time now with a temp shelter, because i know of this issue. This would at least allow players to load just outside the door if they crash OR turn back if they finished the game and now want to get back to their builds. That surely cannot be hard to implement?

[John The Danimal Tamer]

Bump

Happening to us too

[Metamoth741]

Hi there - this is a very old issue. Would you be able to provide some details on the specific case you're seeing? Was this on a Dedicated Server, or in p2p multiplayer? As well, if you could upload any affected save to a file sharing site and link it here, it'd be very helpful.

[Spongy]

Didn't realise people were still having this issue! When we tried it again everything worked fine and as it should if I remember correctly. And all I remember server wise was that we created a private, invite only server (I think? Almost a year ago now so I'm not 100%)

[Andrew]

This just happened to my fiance when we got to the end :(

[c o u r t n e y ♡]

anyone got a solution? happening to us now

[NinjaZ]

Still happening..

[Amaros]

Still happening 12.01.2025