Known fix for animals leaving zero tracks?

[Alpacalypse]

Game breaking bug at this point. If I hit any shot that doesn't drop the animal within a few seconds, there's probably a thirty percent chance that it'll run off without ever leaving tracks. No blood, no tracks, no scat, nothing. Makes it impossible to track your target without lottery number prediction level guesswork.
Is there a known fix? I don't like when a core part of a game is unplayable.

[ohiorice]

I too would like to know about a "fix". Only thing I've been able to do is exit game, restart game and hope my kills were still on the map. I feel it must have something to do with skills/perks that have an effect on tracking. The more I add to it the worst the bug.

In sort of the same category... I've noticed areas of Layton Lake I had fully explored suddenly show up "hidden" to me again. So I can't fast travel to an outpost, for example.

I do hope the dev(s) get this bug on tracking fixed like tomorrow :-) cause I agree - it KILLS the game.

[Alpacalypse]

Originally posted by ohiorice:

I too would like to know about a "fix". Only thing I've been able to do is exit game, restart game and hope my kills were still on the map. I feel it must have something to do with skills/perks that have an effect on tracking. The more I add to it the worst the bug.

In sort of the same category... I've noticed areas of Layton Lake I had fully explored suddenly show up "hidden" to me again. So I can't fast travel to an outpost, for example.

I do hope the dev(s) get this bug on tracking fixed like tomorrow :-) cause I agree - it KILLS the game.

I was under the assumption that leaving despawned all corpses, which would explain why I lose my consec harvest whenever this type of nonsense happens.

[Mr L]

I haven't noticed any problems with tracks/tracking.

[ohiorice]

I think then my comment is worded inappropriately.. I meant to say exit the current game back to the main menu then drop back into it with "resume".

I have also noticed the keyboard mapping kind of goes oops after a bit of game play. CAPS locks your movement into run mode. Caps ON runs, caps off walks. After playing for a good amount of time, it turns into Caps OFF to run, caps on to walk.

I run an MSI laptop, everything's current so I'm at a loss as to what could cause these issues external to the software. I hope they at least take a look at it.

[jgraham0331]

I've had the same issue with tracks and I really started noticing after the last patch. Sometimes there are simply no tracks, blood, etc after hitting an animal. In particular animals that are shot in high traffic areas with lots of other tracks tend to not leave anything. I think the issue is with older tracks overriding newer ones, especially blood trails.

I've also had a pretty serious issue with hits not registering. I'm not talking missing, but shots within 50m that are dead on broadside and the animal doesn't even flinch.

[RlyShadow]

I've literally never had a single problem with tracks disappearing. The only track problems i've had are if an animal kinda paces around in a area you get alot of over lapping tracks, some tracks not showing up because the game can only have so many tracks in 1 area.

[Alpacalypse]

Originally posted by ohiorice:

I think then my comment is worded inappropriately.. I meant to say exit the current game back to the main menu then drop back into it with "resume".

I have also noticed the keyboard mapping kind of goes oops after a bit of game play. CAPS locks your movement into run mode. Caps ON runs, caps off walks. After playing for a good amount of time, it turns into Caps OFF to run, caps on to walk.

I run an MSI laptop, everything's current so I'm at a loss as to what could cause these issues external to the software. I hope they at least take a look at it.

I've found the reason why caps lock enabling/disabling sprint is "inconsistent". If you try to sprint while reloading the game will ignore the input, leaving you with caps lock on while still walking. It can be fixed by pressing caps lock while alt tabbed to disable it.

[McSqurl Nugget]

not game breaking, 30% chance of it happening is far from game breaking and probably a high guess of the frequency. It's an old bug they haven't bothered fixing yet, or found a fix for.

Annoying as hell, yes. Wait till you stalk that possible diamond and finally shoot it, only to see it run a few meters and die, but no no tracks and no body there.

You can check the map to see if the animal died, you'll get an HP zone if it did. then mark the spot you shot it, if there is one. or as close to it as you can and search out from there, or skip it and go on to the next. CH doesn't count in your trophy, you'll just get less cache and XP till you get it back to 100%.

[Alpacalypse]

Originally posted by McSqurl Nugget:

not game breaking, 30% chance of it happening is far from game breaking and probably a high guess of the frequency. It's an old bug they haven't bothered fixing yet, or found a fix for.

Annoying as hell, yes. Wait till you stalk that possible diamond and finally shoot it, only to see it run a few meters and die, but no no tracks and no body there.

You can check the map to see if the animal died, you'll get an HP zone if it did. then mark the spot you shot it, if there is one. or as close to it as you can and search out from there, or skip it and go on to the next. CH doesn't count in your trophy, you'll just get less cache and XP till you get it back to 100%.

It breaks a core aspect of the game when it happens, and it happens with enough frequency to be severely disruptive to the central gameplay loop. Stalk -> Shoot -> harvest isn't really plausible when you can't find the body to harvest for reasons wholly out of your control.
Finding the animal via last spotted marker only works if the animal didn't run away. For faster animals or hits to places like the intestines, it won't help.

[Bowfin]

Originally posted by Alpacalypse:

Originally posted by McSqurl Nugget:

not game breaking, 30% chance of it happening is far from game breaking and probably a high guess of the frequency. It's an old bug they haven't bothered fixing yet, or found a fix for.

Annoying as hell, yes. Wait till you stalk that possible diamond and finally shoot it, only to see it run a few meters and die, but no no tracks and no body there.

You can check the map to see if the animal died, you'll get an HP zone if it did. then mark the spot you shot it, if there is one. or as close to it as you can and search out from there, or skip it and go on to the next. CH doesn't count in your trophy, you'll just get less cache and XP till you get it back to 100%.

It breaks a core aspect of the game when it happens, and it happens with enough frequency to be severely disruptive to the central gameplay loop. Stalk -> Shoot -> harvest isn't really plausible when you can't find the body to harvest for reasons wholly out of your control.
Finding the animal via last spotted marker only works if the animal didn't run away. For faster animals or hits to places like the intestines, it won't help.

I can see how this bug could be annoying but I agree with McSqurl Nugget it's not game breaking. A few things you can do to avoid it all together is make that first shot count, if you unfortunately make a bad shot start where the tracks stop and do a circle search but don't waste your time if there isn't a purple mark on the map.

[McSqurl Nugget]

Originally posted by Alpacalypse:

Originally posted by McSqurl Nugget:

not game breaking, 30% chance of it happening is far from game breaking and probably a high guess of the frequency. It's an old bug they haven't bothered fixing yet, or found a fix for.

Annoying as hell, yes. Wait till you stalk that possible diamond and finally shoot it, only to see it run a few meters and die, but no no tracks and no body there.

You can check the map to see if the animal died, you'll get an HP zone if it did. then mark the spot you shot it, if there is one. or as close to it as you can and search out from there, or skip it and go on to the next. CH doesn't count in your trophy, you'll just get less cache and XP till you get it back to 100%.

It breaks a core aspect of the game when it happens, and it happens with enough frequency to be severely disruptive to the central gameplay loop. Stalk -> Shoot -> harvest isn't really plausible when you can't find the body to harvest for reasons wholly out of your control.
Finding the animal via last spotted marker only works if the animal didn't run away. For faster animals or hits to places like the intestines, it won't help.

check your file integrity then. i play 4 or 5 hours almost every night and the most i see it is once or maybe twice a game, sometimes i'll go a couple/few nights and not see it at all. So no it doesn't happen enough to be that disruptive.

and like Bowfin said make better shots. What I was talking about regarding marking and what Bowfin mentioned above are the same. i use a spiral search pattern but use whatever floats your boat.

[Alpacalypse]

Originally posted by McSqurl Nugget:

Originally posted by Alpacalypse:

It breaks a core aspect of the game when it happens, and it happens with enough frequency to be severely disruptive to the central gameplay loop. Stalk -> Shoot -> harvest isn't really plausible when you can't find the body to harvest for reasons wholly out of your control.
Finding the animal via last spotted marker only works if the animal didn't run away. For faster animals or hits to places like the intestines, it won't help.

check your file integrity then. i play 4 or 5 hours almost every night and the most i see it is once or maybe twice a game, sometimes i'll go a couple/few nights and not see it at all. So no it doesn't happen enough to be that disruptive.

and like Bowfin said make better shots. What I was talking about regarding marking and what Bowfin mentioned above are the same. i use a spiral search pattern but use whatever floats your boat.

Can't always make a perfect shot, and hit registration is known to be buggy at times.