NPCs disappear - sniping

[jaundiced]

Has anyone else noticed NPCs just completely vanishing after you take a long range sniper shot and drop the scope then zoom back in again? Body will be gone and new NPCs... is this an engine issue? I'm not maxing out available memory so I don't think that's it.

I'm talking just random rampage stuff - not missions. I was taking pot shots at a gang area by the water from the top of a refinery drum when it was happening. Each shot when I zoomed back in it would be a different group of gang members, no dead body.

Maybe I'll make a video and post it. Kind of a major immersion breaker.

[Heavenstake]

maybe its just to far

[Ifodder]

It is kinda imersion breaking but i see things popping in & out all the time.

[jaundiced]

It was only about 750m max. shooting from Dutch London Street and Jamestown Street across the road. I'll try to make a video and post it. Not a big deal, love the game, just makes random non-story sniping a bit of a bummer.

I stole a car from the gang housing block there and they opened fire so I went back to try to get some revenge.. but it turned into something out of the Matrix instead :).

[WillieTheWolf]

Maybe it has to do with the spawning options you have based on your graphics settings

[jaundiced]

I'll check that out - thanks for the suggestion ;)

[jaundiced]

hm. all my population and scaling settings are maxed. I'm running a pretty decent rig so I don't think that's it. going to try to see if I can replicate and post a video.

[mimizukari]

Originally posted by jaundiced:

Has anyone else noticed NPCs just completely vanishing after you take a long range sniper shot and drop the scope then zoom back in again? Body will be gone and new NPCs... is this an engine issue? I'm not maxing out available memory so I don't think that's it.

I'm talking just random rampage stuff - not missions. I was taking pot shots at a gang area by the water from the top of a refinery drum when it was happening. Each shot when I zoomed back in it would be a different group of gang members, no dead body.

Maybe I'll make a video and post it. Kind of a major immersion breaker.

you're not maxing out memory? lol. you should be going over maximum memory.

[jaundiced]

Originally posted by epsilon Rose:

Originally posted by jaundiced:

Has anyone else noticed NPCs just completely vanishing after you take a long range sniper shot and drop the scope then zoom back in again? Body will be gone and new NPCs... is this an engine issue? I'm not maxing out available memory so I don't think that's it.

I'm talking just random rampage stuff - not missions. I was taking pot shots at a gang area by the water from the top of a refinery drum when it was happening. Each shot when I zoomed back in it would be a different group of gang members, no dead body.

Maybe I'll make a video and post it. Kind of a major immersion breaker.

you're not maxing out memory? lol. you should be going over maximum memory.

i haven't even bothered messing with settings as it was running pretty well. maybe i'll mess around, ignore limits, and crank it up. see if that helps.

[mimizukari]

Originally posted by jaundiced:

Originally posted by epsilon Rose:

you're not maxing out memory? lol. you should be going over maximum memory.

i haven't even bothered messing with settings as it was running pretty well. maybe i'll mess around, ignore limits, and crank it up. see if that helps.

just throwing it out there, nvidia recommended settings told me to go over suggested limits, so I did, and it still runs great, this game is optimized amazingly.

[jaundiced]

tried bumping settings and still happening. tested it out at a remote beach shooting from around 200m. same stuff. npcs just vanish when you switch out of scope and back to scope. weird.