Character is literally stuck in the fall animation, cant move.

[Me4tWag0n]

I've been noticing the player character getting hung up on flat landscape, and i have to jump to keep running forward, even though the land is perfectly flat already. So in one such instance, i jumped, and when i landed, it didn't land, and my character is now stuck floating a hair off the ground in the flailing falling animation.

I tried rebooting, restarting the game, and using the terrain tool to unstick myself. It doesnt do anything, the tool just creates terrain around you as youre stuck falling.

This and the soil centrifuge bugs are now the main reason i have to stop playing this game, i hope they fix this soon.

[deepcut]

This has just happened to me, my character is stuck in mid-air and I can't move.
I tried reloading but that didn't reset it, and I can't even die because I'm within tether range of a vehicle, but not close enough to hop into the seat.
I guess this save is just broken now :(

Edit: Oh phew! I actually was close enough to hop into the seat and that did reset me.

[szalkerous]

Had this happen as well a few days ago on Calidor. Luckily I could hop into a seat, but just barely.
That planet is cursed.

[Its_Kate_TV]

I was about to use a piece of salvage and put it under my feet to free me.

[noxteryn]

So, is there a solution to this problem?

[Alkpaz]

Could you also join a multiplayer game to unstick yourself? Or would that not work (for those without a vehicle).

[Tactical_Zombeh]

This is a recurring issue from sometime in 2019. They've repeatedly said they're fixing the problem "soon"TM, but no fix has ever come. A while back I think I found a mod that would help release you from this stuck bug, but it just occurs over and over.

[Livia]

I had one spot on Novus that did this all the time. I had to kill myself by running out of oxygen in order to get out of it - nothing else worked.

[Me4tWag0n]

Originally posted by Livia:

I had one spot on Novus that did this all the time. I had to kill myself by running out of oxygen in order to get out of it - nothing else worked.

LOL its been so long since i played. I stopped playing as this was happening all the time for me and whats the point of investing time and effort when it all gets hung up?

But that got you out of the problem? Were you able recover your corpse's inventory without also getting stuck there again?

[Livia]

Originally posted by KROMBOPULOS MICHAEL:

Originally posted by Livia:

I had one spot on Novus that did this all the time. I had to kill myself by running out of oxygen in order to get out of it - nothing else worked.

But that got you out of the problem? Were you able recover your corpse's inventory without also getting stuck there again?

Yes, I could get all my stuff, but I could also get stuck on that ONE spot again, so I had to avoid directly standing in that ONE place in my base, which I could do. But if I ever did step there, I just took everything out of my pack, put it on the platform in front of me, then tossed the platform (as it was giving oxygen), died, and then I popped out at the shelter directly in front of me, grabbed my stuff, and put the platform back. Annoying, but worked.

But I've only ever had this happen the ONE time in that ONE place.

[lurky-Lou]

Just happened to me (April 15th 2022) so it has not been resolved as of yet.
On De Solo - Jumped off a flat surface into a hole and was stuck floating about 1/2 way down.
Found this thread and just detached from tether, emptied my backpack and let myself die and respawn.
Luckily had a beacon, and turned ON (don't know how many times I start the game and this is not ON) and was able to find my location and collect my things.

I would be nice to be able to leave the beacon ON, or in last saved state, which should be ON.

[lurky-Lou]

It's happen twice on Novus so far today.
Seems to be something related to altering the terrain. Was walking on a flat road I made and got stuck walking. Jumped up and was stuck in fall animation.
On Desolo was on a road and jumped of to the side terrain and got stuck in fall animation.

Had to disconnect oxygen tanks and tethers to kill myself and respawn.

[Me4tWag0n]

Ok i tried picking this up again and starting from scratch and this bug is still here. Do the devs even look at this? Is this the proper place to report a bug? Because to go 2 years with a game stopping bug is absolutely ridiculous. The whole reason i stopped playing and it STILL hasn't been fixed???

[Livia]

Novus is where I got stuck to.

I wonder if this is because they DID fix the sticking issue, but ONLY if you start a new game. Maybe it's made old games have an issue?

[lurky-Lou]

Does not appear to be specific to any planet. Now as occurred on Novus, Desolo and it just happened again, on Vesania. Wandering around the wilderness and happened upon a discarded rover. Went to dig it out and all of a sudden I was floating in the fall animation. Still connected to my large rover there was absolutely nothing I could do since I could not disconnect and kill myself.
At some point I think the game realized I was stuck and killed me. Thanks for that.
Also glad I manually turned on my Beacon.

Well, I am continuing on with this game-play, but will probably start up again with a new game at some point, just to see if I can break-dance in the wind.

[lurky-Lou]

Happened again, this time on Calidor. Calidor seems to have it's own issues with constantly hitting invisible walls every 10 steps. Really annoying. Same floating falling animation. Was able to disconnect from tether and Die to free myself.
Nothing special about this since it is happening so often. Random stoppage during walking on invisible objects on default land areas, as well as manual road ways.
I would say this was the absolute worst I have seen so far. Just keeps getting worse as I progress in this game or move to different planets.