Can't search or open anything

[Remus]

I host a multiplayer game with me and my friend and we've been playing for about a week. Suddenly he can't open anything. Not like it's locked he just doesn't get any kindf of action response from items. He can't search boxes, corpse or loot in anything. Anyone have a solution to this I see lots of threads about this same issue but no one seems to know how to fix it.

[МеланхолияДанилы]

Same problem. Does EVERYBODY have it?

[Tysonjt79]

i dont know if its the same problem but everytime i join a server everything runs fine for about 3 mins then it suddenly does what you are describing with the not being able to pick things up or interact with items/objects then eventually i get disconnected back to the title screen

[Remus]

Found some what of a solution. It's a latency issue. My friend took some other devices off his internet and lowered his ping and it got things working again.

[МеланхолияДанилы]

It`s turned out that only certain friends of mine have this ptoblem playing with me. WTF.

[Murk7]

I had this issue, and then it started giving me error messages too. Posted about it yesterday.

[Athanazzio Von Skarlet]

same problem here.. some times its fine but some other times we cant interact with objects but we can still play

[Athanazzio Von Skarlet]

at start i thought its a "who is hosting the game" matter but as it got proven it wasnt

[Athanazzio Von Skarlet]

OMFG i just realised this issue one year old.. really now? no hopes for fixing then?

[SylenThunder]

Originally posted by Athanazzio Von Skarlet:

OMFG i just realised this issue one year old.. really now? no hopes for fixing then?

The fix for an issue caused by network latency is to reduce latency on the network. It's not a game client issue.

[Tim Taylor]

Got the same problem same NOW on Alpha 17 B2333.
I can pick up things like dropped items from the inventory, I can pick up stomes and open doors, BUT I cant open any boxes or crates or loot or camp fires. Any solution yet?

[Callie]

Did you find a solution for this problem? I can also open doors, pick up things but not open crates or boxes or my boxes, safes or campfires or even the work bench and forge. This is not a latency issue. I can do all these things on my sons account on the same computer with the same internet.

[Tim Taylor]

Sorry, we didnt find any solutions until there was another update zu A17.1 B8 which also fixed that issue.

[Lord_Zerks]

The problem still persists even in 2020 at least for me and my buddy. He is always getting kicked, when we play over LAN after 15-20 mins of play... Every time he opens any container or even accesses his inventory.

Hopefully as the game gets more future updates this reoccurring problem will eventually be terminated. Latency should not be the issue in our case, as we get 1 ping between the connections.

From what iv seen after watching the problem occur on his end... it seems as if the game suffers a major lag spike during any inventory/container access after 20 or so mins (just a theory), but it seems his connection experiences a de-sync and i guess he gets kicked from my end??? Then either boots to tittle or CTDs.

He is able to play for hours straight (and in theory... forever) if he never opens his inventory or any container. So hopefully someone will find a proper fix for this. if i find a solution ill defo follow up with another post here. He is able to access said menus and containers during the first 20-30 mins or so. after that its a guaranteed crash.

[david_draven]

We had this happen a couple of days ago (we haven't played since, so we don't know if the problem persists).
My wife joined my game and she couldn't open any chests or loot. She could drive the car and pick up things I dropped for her.
So, she cleared the zombies while I looted.
Shooting is fine for her. Surely that would be the most noticeable thing if it was a latency issue. She's a twitch sniper in TF2, so she would definitely notice if her shooting was out.

Originally posted by SylenThunder:

The fix for an issue caused by network latency is to reduce latency on the network. It's not a game client issue.

I don't know who SylenThunder is... but I have serious doubts that latency on my end is causing the game to ONLY glitch one aspect.
And... if it IS latency on my end only glitching one aspect... then perhaps that aspect is being handled differently by the client.
Either way... I still think this issue is game related. As a glitch or as how it handles latency (being that other functions are handled fine).

[Varcity]

I've discovered the reason for the problem, whenever the host changes the world settings, the friend playing with him will no longer be able to search things once he joins back