Star Metal Meteors in single player

[katsuragi]

How does this work? Do meteors only fall if I'm in the area? That's going to be pretty inconvenient if I have to wait there for hours to find one every time I need star metal.
Currently been sitting there for 90 minutes and nothing yet. I've always played MP so... is there like something I need to do to trigger the meteors? I've always just come up north and found them stuck to canyon walls and such, but in the SP game I can't find any after several trips.

[steventirey]

Yeah, in single player you have to be in the area for the meteor shower to happen.

If you only need a bit of star metal, it may be easier to knock out and enslave any of the Cimmerians around the Mounds of the Dead that have star metal weapons or shields. While a thrall will lose armor upon being tamed, they keep their weapons and shields. Then you can break them down in a dismantling bench.

[katsuragi]

that just seems like an obvious game breaking design flaw.... they just don't care about the SP game I take it?

[steventirey]

There are more than a few issues with single player, including disappearing bodies (Dead or unconscious), bosses not spawning (or spawning in inaccessible areas), and bosses glitching out and not functioning properly. And as you pointed out in the other thread, there are mechanics that just work differently (like the respawning happening as soon as you are out of render distance).

Single player definitely seems like a lower priority for them.

[katsuragi]

Well I finally got them. I don't know exactly when it happened, but I sat down by the philosopher giant and left the game running while I made some coffee and watched the last half of "Zombie" (circa 1980 Fulci movie) and when I came back, I found several meteorites stuck to the cliff walls nearby and myself very nearly dead from hunger and thirst. It was probably close to three hours total spent consecutively in that area to get it to happen, but eventually it did.

[Seishisha]

If you're tired of waiting for meteors to spawn in naturally i believe there is a console command to speed up the in game time scale. this should alleviate your wait time substantially, just remember to set the scale back to normal afterwards. (Forgive me i tried to find the exact command but i was not able to)

If that level of manipulation is too much of an exploit for you then as mentioned above, any cimmerian thrall can be knocked out and tamed for their weapons, i believe you can also dismantle some legendary weapons for star metal and you may occasionally find it on cimmerian thralls and inside their chests, i think the frost giants also rarely have ore or bars on them. The advantage of these methods gives you something to do while waiting for the meteors.

Alternatively if you just want a decent damage weapon without the grief of farming star metal, you might consider going the dragon bone route, most the damage stats are comparable but farming requirements are much lower.

[Teratus]

Originally posted by steventirey:

There are more than a few issues with single player, including disappearing bodies (Dead or unconscious), bosses not spawning (or spawning in inaccessible areas), and bosses glitching out and not functioning properly. And as you pointed out in the other thread, there are mechanics that just work differently (like the respawning happening as soon as you are out of render distance).

Single player definitely seems like a lower priority for them.

Yeah those issues are annoying.

However there is a trick i've found with the "vanishing bodies"
If you leave a thrall or pet near knocked out NPC's that area will stay rendered for longer.
If you're fast enough you can teleport home with a knocked out NPC, stick it in a wheel and teleport back to where you were to collect other knocked out NPC's without them vanishing.

I've not tested how long it takes for a body to vanish around left behind thralls but i've managed to snag multiple thralls from the same location by doing this in single player so it does work.
The main thing to watch for is enemy respawns as they will spawn back when you leave the area and can attack your thrall while you're running back.