Bloaters still spawn on top of you when driving

[Wigglesbury]

It says in the patch notes that they fixed this but it's happened twice to me since I reinstalled the game about an hour ago. Is it a problem with the Providence Ridge map or is it still in all of them?

[SpunkyJones]

It happened to me too. I thought it had seemed better since the update, but guess I was just lucky

[Cores]

Yep. This problem still present.
(captured 09/03/2021)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1dS7O62QI0

[Simon]

Yes it is still broken despite the latest release notes.

Some early map physics and clipping issues that were fixed have also been reintroduced. I had a character fall through the map behind a petrol station in Cascade Hills last week.

[Kazu]

Happens to me a lot, Just randomly bloater spawns on the road as I'm driving

[Protectron]

It was fixed in an update in February iirc.

But the fix broke the game in pretty much every other aspect.

So now they have reverted to the version before the fix in February. Maybe even one way before that. 3-year-old bugs and glitches have re-emerged. Also, features previously implemented or changed have also been reset.

The one that most prominently come to mind is that there are hardly any missions popping up. This was a "fix" that went too far a year ago or so.

Edit: the issue isn't so much the regular spawning rate or stuff like that, but that Screamers spawn in hordes and Freaks as you drive by - in Nightmare and Lethal. When the screamers do that, the spawns are materializing in a certain radius around the screamer, so when you drive away from it the chance is rather high that you happen to be in that spot.

Another issue that has re-emerged is that sleeping Bloaters randomly explode if you remain within its rendering distance for long enough. If it does, the gas teleports into your car for some reason.

[Granch]

I don`t know what they fix, but blooater rotten appears under my wheels today.

[Hellrazer001]

I have to agree, I just played through the three original maps and never had it happen, now I am on Providence ridge, and it has happened 5 times so far today.

[CoRn3lL! (⌐■_■)]

Still happening. On lethal is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ pain in the ass cause you has to jump of you car and always there is a plague feral waiting to attack you when you finish deal with the plague zombies

[Lich King]

On Lethal the only way I have avoided this is avoiding offroading, driving slow, using slower vehicles, and avoiding ALL zombie groups or hordes. Yeah, it is lame. Bloaters seem to have a chance of spawning in the middle of a group of zombies as well. It is a bizarre hike in difficulty, I call it the "Surprise Mofo" mechanic, since it seems more like a feature now than a bug. Following these lame rules has at least made it bearable for me. It will still happen, but less. Also, I found with the fast cars, even sticking to the roads, I think it gets worse. I think the engine can't actually handle some of the faster vehicles, like it does not know where you are in relation to zombies and so ends up spawning them in front of you or underneath you. Using vehicles like the military truck and others that are slow seems to help.

When it does happen, I pop pain killers to keep the character alive, and power through the bloater gas in the car and just keep driving. Getting out of the car is suicide.

[Maulmere]

Originally posted by CoRn3lL! (⌐■_■):

Still happening. On lethal is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ pain in the ass cause you has to jump of you car and always there is a plague feral waiting to attack you when you finish deal with the plague zombies

Ahem. Plague Bloaters?

[CoRn3lL! (⌐■_■)]

Originally posted by Magic MIKE JackOlantern:

Also, I found with the fast cars, even sticking to the roads, I think it gets worse. I think the engine can't actually handle some of the faster vehicles, like it does not know where you are in relation to zombies and so ends up spawning them in front of you or underneath you. Using vehicles like the military truck and others that are slow seems to help.

I have noticed that too. This even happen with other items in scenario sometimes

Originally posted by Magic MIKE JackOlantern:

When it does happen, I pop pain killers to keep the character alive, and power through the bloater gas in the car and just keep driving. Getting out of the car is suicide.

Problem with that is you are wasting resources in something that shouldn't happen

[CoRn3lL! (⌐■_■)]

Originally posted by MaulReverie:

Originally posted by CoRn3lL! (⌐■_■):

Still happening. On lethal is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ pain in the ass cause you has to jump of you car and always there is a plague feral waiting to attack you when you finish deal with the plague zombies

Ahem. Plague Bloaters?

Yep

[Zephyr]

I had it happen to me too. But then again, this game has even more bugs than the first one, and they are all way worse. How this was even shipped is beyond me. Some of the bugs which were present in 1 are still here though, which is a clear sign of how much of the assets were recycled and resold as a new game.

A bug which often happens, despite it rarely happening in 1, was when you just try to go for an execution and there is something conflicting with your character doing it. It can cause all the zombies nearby to simply vanish. In 1 it did happen but it was only the zombie in process of being executed which vanhished(often by being sent into the floor or the walls).

[Lich King]

Originally posted by CoRn3lL! (⌐■_■):

Problem with that is you are wasting resources in something that shouldn't happen

True, I agree. But in my games I tend to get a pharmacologist and make massive amounts of pain killers anyway; I always need them and surplus can always be sold for extra influence. Does not take as long as waiting for liquor to brew either (as an item to be sold for influence).