BUG - game is loading trees/rocks that actually don't exist

[Kultyz]

Greetings,

i'm having a problem with the game, i login into my official pve server with my friends and for some reason my game decides there are rocks or trees everywhere, i can walk throught the rocks but it stutters the game and gets me stuck, i can hit trees and hear the sound of hitting a tree but it does not yeld any resource nor break.

I've tried walking/flying far away but when i return it's all there still which doesn't allow me to play. Changing graphical settings doesn't help either and the only time it somehow just cleared all fake tree/rock was when a friend of mine grabbed me with a flyer talons but we've tried it again and didn't work again.

This started happening after last hotfix patch and restarting PC, reconnecting to the game hasn't helped.

Anyone having same problem or any idea on how to solve it?

[LeRapThor]

I have this very same issue, and i also have trouble interacting with objects, it does go away after some time for me tho, but its just plainly annoying

[Kultyz]

it has been painful to play the game like this as i'm always getting stuck in objects that are not even there -.-

[Dolomite83]

they are the ghosts of what you harvested haunting you

[Kultyz]

i would rather have gigas attacking my base then having invincible bugging rocks and trees all over it...

[Xaptor]

Wow, the most relevant post to my problem that google gave me, and nobody knows how to fix it.
Depression overwhelming.
._.
So nobody knows if any commands work to clear this?

[θάνατος]

the rocks are about to spawn in a server restart fixes it, this is caused by insta respawning nodes

[Kultyz]

i'm not sure about that.... everytime i login i have the same issue... switching servers or restarting the game doesn't help.... all i can usually do is wait several minutes and they eventually magically disapear.

It's really annoying to have a huge stone blocking your refrigerator or feeding trough and you simply can't access it until the game decides to clear the imaginary rocks.....

[Xaptor]

Yeah, I have the issue with non-ded and restarting the game doesn't do jack for it.
Leaving the area for a good while and coming back to it usually does it after a few tries.
So far, it's happened to me with large rocks, collectible rocks, bushes, trees of all sizes, metal nodes, obsidian nodes and crystal. :l So yeah, it's kind of an issue -- especially considering the rate at which it happens.
Really, it shouldn't even happen at all.

But the point in the post is: Is there a fix yet other than just d*cking around for an hour and coming back to the location? >_>

[⚔️☠Reaper☠⚔]

Its a loading issue in the game , it affects some but not all . Sometimes ill see harvested trees or rocks as if the base wasnt there or even at times with the nodes going through the base .

[axenation]

Originally posted by Xaptor:

But the point in the post is: Is there a fix yet other than just d*cking around for an hour and coming back to the location? >_>

How far away from the area are you going? The trees are contained in the "far" levels and smaller things are in the "near" levels. You "should" be able to move out of that specific section of the map (and out of the "far" or "near" distance from that specific level), wait 2 minutes, then come back in to have it reload. You should be able to guesstimate the distances for the far levels as the tree billboards will dissappear in the distance (and then move even a little further away). The near levels are harder to guess because most of those things are culled at a much shorter distance than the level volumes / level streaming distances.

What's happening is that your client isn't receiving the net packet from the server saying which foliage instances are currently shrunk (they're not actually removed when you harvest them, their scale is simply shrunk for performance and server-client sync reasons). It's hard to say what exactly is causing it though and it's the first that I've heard of this happening so it seems to be an exctremely fringe case bug.

Just out of curiousity, what is your internet like? Is it fast or slow, stable, unstable?

[edit: just saw you were on non-dedicated. Are yo on single-player or is someone else "hosting" the session?]

[Xaptor]

My internet has pretty decent speed. It's even faster when *gasp* I'm the one hosting. XD
My cousin and I rotate who hosts, depending on how we feel like playing the game. We both have the same issue on both ends with the same resource objects.
I did not know about the scaling, though. O.o That's good information to have, thanks.

[axenation]

Originally posted by Xaptor:

My internet has pretty decent speed. It's even faster when *gasp* I'm the one hosting. XD
My cousin and I rotate who hosts, depending on how we feel like playing the game. We both have the same issue on both ends with the same resource objects.
I did not know about the scaling, though. O.o That's good information to have, thanks.

So it even happens when you're hosting the session?

[Xaptor]

Originally posted by axenation:

So it even happens when you're hosting the session?

Yes, it happens on both the host and the client end for the same resource objects. By now, we just call out "lat,lon fake trees" or whatever the resource is and avoid the area if there's nothing important nearby. It doesn't matter who harvested it, either.

[Ghost]

Yes to think of it ive hit hundreds of rock and trees snd got nothing. It seems tp be random i think its a spwan issue. I did not even think about it till i read this. Get stuck and blame it on a bit of lag.

[Kultyz]

This isn't so infrequent.... on my Tribe of 4 players 3 have this issue. It doesn't happen everytime we log in to the game, but around 4 out of 5 times. Even where we have our houses, sometimes rocks are there blocking everything and trees making a maze out of things.

If we walk straight to them we can go through them but in a buggy like manner. Can't access anything while inside this imaginary rocks.

The only thing that fixes it is wait several minutes until for some reason the game sort of "syncs" and they just pop out of existance and things go back to normal.

i've flown away (really really far) and when i come back they are still there, so i don't think that is the solution. I've left my character just staring at the rocks and trees for several minutes (between 5 and 10) and without interacting with anything usually between those times they simply start to disapear....

This has been happening to me for a considerable time now as i said on the topic of this post....

If anyone finds any thing that helps PLEASE post it here