Weird bug, Archdragon peak

[Ambugaton]

So at the end of NG on this guy I went back to Archdragon peak to make sure I had gotten everything and noticed that the sky was bugged out. Totally black... which was actually kind of cool, except the renderings seemed off, almost cartoonish. And the fog was there as if I had rung the bell, could walk on it and everything. Didn't think much of it, double checked that it was fine on my other characters to make sure it wasn't missing files or something, verified file integrity, etc.

I assumed it would just go back to normal in NG+... nope. still the same black sky, still the same walkable fog, and now the wyvern doesn't show up at its second spot. Went back to the second bonfire, tried to trigger it again, still no luck. Went ahead and rang the bell: sky is the normal sky for after you ring the bell now, but still no 2nd wyvern sighting.

Anyone seen this before?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1747769332

[VonRaven 666]

gotta say ive never seen that before!

[Ambugaton]

Originally posted by VonRaven 666:

gotta say ive never seen that before!:praisesun:

I wouldn't mind if a) the rest of the renderings looked normal (it is kinda cool) and b) the 2nd wyvern showed...

Now I'm a little worried though. Just realized I had an invader drop something here that I wouldn't have picked up anyway but I couldn't see it. He kept pointing to it, etc, but nothing was there. I just sat in the patches squat and waited. Saw him do the animation to pick something up then we proceeded on with trying to kill each other. Can't *imagine* how he could have screwed my game up like this, but .. well, it's effing weird.

[VonRaven 666]

no i gotta say its really strange, doent think he can do it that way unless you pick up item yourself,.. just like you i gotta say it really weird.

[VonRaven 666]

anyway if the invader dropped something like sunlight medal etc, you can not see the item

[Pyramid Bread]

It happened before I killed nameless king once, and when I went through the fog the fight didn't spawn. Was just standing in an empty NK arena

[Ambugaton]

Originally posted by decadence:

It happened before I killed nameless king once, and when I went through the fog the fight didn't spawn. Was just standing in an empty NK arena

Just tested it. Thankfully he spawned (don't want to do the fight yet, I like getting invaded there, good place for seeds :P )


I'm curious if it goes away after the fight this time

[riri]

same happened to me in undead settlement during an invasion

[Ambugaton]

So defeating Nameless put everything back to normal and reset the wyvern too. Strange.

[Ambugaton]

Originally posted by Kipper:

I have a similar issue that sometimes occurs, it appears to be related to my GPU drivers, but I’m not 100% on it.

Basically sometimes after reopening the game without rebooting my PC, the puddles in fire link shrine will turn a greenish colour (Not how they’re supposed to be). I haven’t tested looking at other areas, but I will if it happens again.
Also I’m not sure if I’ve had this problem happen on the first opening of DS3 from boot, but I can’t rule it out.

I can’t be sure of your cause but what did work for me was either exiting the game and reopening, or switching to my desktop via keyboard and then switching back to the game.

Thanks for the suggestion. Yeah, I had exited, rebooted my computer, etc. a few times between NG cycles and it was still there. It wasn't just a texture problem, the game was in some weird in between state with walkable fog, etc..... spawning then killing the boss again seemed to reset it.

[Sabaithal]

I've had a bug where archdragon was always stormy, even after killing then nameless king, but only on one character, so it seems to be something in that specific playthrough that causes the bug.

Looked cool AF though, so I didn't want to fix it.