Invisible Trophys after Hotfix 1.67

[m1ndcore]

summary

• Corpses are invisible but can still be claimed.
  
• Harvest Screen not showing up after claiming trophy

EDIT4:
Thank you guy's for your confirmations. I submitted a bug report describing the problem.

Here are some workarounds (provided by the community):

• shoot from closer ranges < 150m
  
• don't step out of render distance of your shot animal (~450m)
  
• always try your best to hit vitals (you should have done that anyway :D)
  
• don't shoot too many animals before collecting them

My approach right now is to go sneaky with a bow ;)


If you have some spare time please report this bug via the bug report form [support.thehunter.com] at the hunter cotw website to let them know that we care about this game and want this bug to be fixed as soon as possible. Thank you :)
(https://support.thehunter.com/hc/en-us/requests/new)

If you are as lazy as i am you might want to copy paste some of these boilerplates into the bug report form.

[SUBJECT]
Invisible Trophys when stepping out of render distance

[REPRO STEPS]

1. Shoot an animal
   
2. find the corpse and mark it on the map
   
3. step out of render distance (~450+m)
   
4. go back to the marked location

[DESCRIPTION]
Dead animals are rendered invisible when stepping out of render distance.





Hey guys,
i found a MAJOR BUG in my game testing the new hotfix.
I shot fallow dear and feral goats on Te Awaroa (at the river) today.
After a few shots i fast traveled to the nearest outpost and went to the corpse locations.
The corpses were gone, the blood still on the ground. The dog caught a track but stopped after a while. After a few tests i figured out that the corpses are not gone but invisible. I was able to claim the trophy but no harvest screen was shown.
After a few tests i tried reproducing the situation and captured it:

https://youtu.be/fYtrM6CQNAY


EDIT:
I reinstalled the game and deleted all local files, problem still occurs.

EDIT2:
It's the same on silver ridge peaks

EDIT3:
I guess the corpse goes invisible after stepping out of render distance:
tried it on Silver Ridge Peaks with two different herds of Pronghorns.

• The first one i shot one animal and walked to the corpse. Everything fine.
  
• The second one i shot an animal again, portet to the closest outpost (within the render distance ~400m). The Corpse was still there and visible. But after fast traveling to an outpost far away and porting back, the corpse was invisible, but still blood on the ground and able to claim.

[Jobe]

Invisible Red Deer after update

After the update I went to Hershfielden for red deer. Shot one red deer across the river up north. I went down the river about 500m looking for a place to cross and shot another red deer across the river. I had to fast travel to get to the other side of the river. When I got to the first red deer I found the vital blood and tracks but no deer. Then I ran over to the other spot and found vital blood and tracks but no deer. Then I got my dog out of the kennel where it has been since the last bug. The dog tracked just fine and started whining. When I went to the dog I got a confirm harvest prompt and confirmed it. There was no deer and I never got a harvest screen, just the ding and done. I went over to the other location and got the exact same results. I checked my latest harvest and the two red deer are there. Also the vital blood, blood trail, and tracks were still there at both locations. I'm not sure if the other animals will be the same, but I'm going back to hunt fallow and will find out soon. I should also add that I am on pc.

[Jobe]

I got the same on hershfielden hunting red deer. But after harvesting the deer all the vital blood and tracks were still there. I think the problem is fast traveling after the kill. I had to fast travel to get to the other side of the river. Strange thing is I saw the deer fall dead and could still see it on the ground from the other side of the river before I fast traveled.

[Nightwalker]

When you exceed the rendering distance (approx 430 meters) from an animals carcass you run the risk of having it, or it's tracks vanish, particularly if you cross over onto another map region. This is not a new bug. Sometimes you can get the carcass to materialize by moving away from it about 50-100 meters or so and then approaching the area again. That being said, I've had dead ducks turn invisible when rendering distance wasn't involved so yeah, there's a bug in there somewhere, it's just not a new bug. Providing grid coordinates in bug reports can go a long way towards enabling the devs to pinpoint the problem. Once they can identify a repeatable offense on their end they can more quickly nail down the bit of code that's gone awry and spend less time chasing ghosts.

In the meantime, now that you've run into this problem, I'd disconnect from the steamsync cloud and verify the integrity of local game files before logging back into the game. I do it whenever I run into something strange going on in my game (like invisible animals or no animals or even tracks in areas where I usually find some at that particular time of day, those kind of things).

[Jobe]

I know the problem with the rendering and this is not that. And I'm not the only one this has happened to since the update. And it is repeatable since it happened twice in a row. I think fast traveling was the problem. And I have never had the confirm harvest prompt without the harvest screen appearing. I verified my game files after the codex and the dogs bugged out and kenneled my dog, today is the first time I have played since then. And all the blood and tracks remained after I harvested both of the red deer. This is like three bugs all rolled into one. Invisible animal, no harvest screen, and tracks and blood remain after the harvest. Could be an error caused by attempting to fix old bugs, that's usually the way it goes. We need more beta testing before releasing new content.

[jonbea6]

im getting a new one similar to this i guess after todays update.
sometimes when i send my dog after blood trails, the trail just ends and the dog goes into idle, yet i know the animal went down because pressure appeared on the map. visually the trail just ends too, nothing else to follow :/.
happening about 1 in 10 kills

[Pinger]

@op confirmed on Hircshfelden as well, killed a roe and fox near each other with bow and tracer arrows both 1 shot, only arrow light and blood pool was left after fast travelling away and back before claiming the animals
edit: also the blood pool is left behind after its claimed, can make you think you missed one or more to claim

[briansaxton]

This was happening before the hotfix, too. It's been since the bloodhound update for me.

[shywonpa]

Same thing for me in silver ridge...3 in a row trail peters out, no corpse and dog goes idle (map shows animal died) also crash if dog asked to track around 60 yards or closer to last known location of blood at times.

[Quyessial]

Same thing here with a Red Deer on Parque. Dog follows the trail get's to the trophy and then goes straight to idle. Collected the trophy and the collection screen flashed and then instantly disappeared. Here's a screen shot.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2463584987

[abrown4521]

im getting same thing but i havent been able to find any trophy's i get to last blood spot 0-25% there is no corpse and no trophy and dog goes to ideling

[Sasha]

Tracks disappearing after 400m+ shot that hit vital organs

I fire off a shot, at this time tested against moose and bison on the Yukon map. They run off. When I track them down, they get to 0-25% or 25-50% blood lost, with closely grouped tracks, and then the tracks just end, with nothing in the 100m around. It's like they just despawn off the map.

I am currently using a 7mm Magnum, with the 7mm Magnum Polymer Tip, and the Hyperion 4-8x42 scope.

[Pinger]

that is the classic lost tracks bug that has been around for a long time on mostly large animals

[Hotaka]

Originally posted by Pinger:

that is the classic lost tracks bug that has been around for a long time on mostly large animals

Just happened to me with an elk yesterday. Shot it...began tracking and...well...all the tracks just disappeared.

[shit owl]

Originally posted by Sasha:

I fire off a shot, at this time tested against moose and bison on the Yukon map. They run off. When I track them down, they get to 0-25% or 25-50% blood lost, with closely grouped tracks, and then the tracks just end, with nothing in the 100m around. It's like they just despawn off the map.

I am currently using a 7mm Magnum, with the 7mm Magnum Polymer Tip, and the Hyperion 4-8x42 scope.

yeap its really friggin annoying i hope they come out with a patch for this and hopefully alot faster than the dog patch and less bug infested

[DownhillDom]

Yep, can confirm that. Happens now again, when animals shot at ~360m run out of render. Tracks are stopping there then and even the dog cannot find anything. Just disappearing.