Map markers disappear - should they?

[DeliMontana]

Well the markers for Amorers and Blacksmiths, barbers and other stuff keeps disappearing for me and its highly annoying, especially in Novigrad which is big and i can't remember where they are.

Is it supposed to be like this or is it a bug?

or could someone who has the markers of armorers and blacksmiths be kind and take a screenshot of Novigrad and post?

[Methanol]

same, only the general vendors shows up on the map,(not all of them), and a few like 1 out of 10 blacksmith/herbalist etc. makes no sense, i should be see all of them on the map once i found them.

[Raven]

you activated a filter.
look at your upper right corner, there you can see the filter.

the standard key is "F" imo when you have the map open

[GLiTcHeD]

Originally posted by Raven:

you activated a filter.
look at your upper right corner, there you can see the filter.

the standard key is "F" imo when you have the map open

No filters activated, everything should be visible but mostly blacksmiths, armorers and barber markers disappear :/

[BDK]

Vanishing for me as well.

[kralmir]

same for me. wish it didnt since im pretty sure ive lost a couple merchants that i saw at one point.

[Harag]

Same here, they reappear when you get close to them, but that's no good if you can't remember where they were - I don't recall this happening when I started so maybe the last patch broke something???

[Odium]

Same problem and I'm glad to see that there have been a few topics on it. Really needs to be fixed; if you explore a location and reveal a map marker it should stay unless you filter it out.

[ChloeLovesDemons]

The markers for blacksmiths, armorsmiths and barbers only show up if you are nearby and the store is open. Not sure if that's the intention but that's how it seems to work right now.

[Zaphod0]

Originally posted by KillemDafoe:

The markers for blacksmiths, armorsmiths and barbers only show up if you are nearby and the store is open. Not sure if that's the intention but that's how it seems to work right now.

I thought that might be the case. I spent 10 minutes looking for a herbalist in Novigrad with no success at midday. Kind of annoying..

[Arbadacarba]

Yeah, i would really like to know what is going on with this i really find it hard to believe its intended.

[Darren Evans]

I posted about this and as far as I can see, it appears related to whether you're in range of the vendors and whether they are available depending on the time of day. I'm still in Valen at the moment and vanishing icons only appear to be a problem in Novigrad because blacksmiths, armorers, armor tables and grindstones show up fine in places like Oxenfurt and the other smaller villages even though you're miles away in Novigrad. Once discovered, icons should remain static on the map to simulate Geralt's familiarity with the area.

There's also a problem with NPC visibility in general since patch 1.04. I can walk through a crowded market square in Novigrad, explore a bit further away in the town and when I return to the square, there's barely anyone around. This is regardless of what time of day it is. If I do a quick 1-hour meditation, when I exit meditation, everybody has suddenly reappeared. There's also increased instances of NPCs just appearing from nowhere 5 steps in front of you. Hugely annoying and immersion-breaking. This problem was not evident in the release version.

My suspicion is that in 'fixing' things for players with crashing issues, these patches have forced much lower levels of detail and streaming in of dynamic content such as NPCs to work on lower-spec PCs. Setting the Number of Background Characters slider to various levels does not appear to improve things either :(

[watch this nub]

Any update on this? I'm having the same problem. Have you guys seen any announcements about it?

[Mutare]

All my markers are disappearing unless I am right next to the merchant. I have no filters on.

[Hartassen]

8 years later still broken.

[Just Guy 0_0]

Originally posted by Hartassen:

8 years later still broken.

Nothing is broken, you just need to have all on markers or stop using wrong mods...