Looting "EMPTY" items since update

[Lisbeth]

As the title says. I've noticed that I've been looting "empty" items since the update.

Edit : The looted item that appears on the right of the screen it a blank image and it says "empty". I have never noticed this issue before the newest tower update.

[BTD_22]

Some? All? Anything/anywhere specific? Frequency?

[ShatteredPumpkin]

sounds odd but if your doing those missions for the gun guy you dont get any loot in those missions

[Lisbeth]

Originally posted by BTD_22:

Some? All? Anything/anywhere specific? Frequency?

Not all, no. Happened in different locations and I can't pinpoint if anything specific happened before looting.

Originally posted by ShatteredPumpkin:

sounds odd but if your doing those missions for the gun guy you dont get any loot in those missions

No I was just killing some infected in the streets. Normally in those mission, you don't get to loot at all. In my case, I was looting items, but on the side of the screen where you can see what you looted, it was a blank image and it was written "empty".

[kreeg]

I have noticed this recently as well.

It is everywhere now. It does not matter whether it is a new game, NG+, zone, human, infected. It does not matter. An almost significant increase in the amount of empty loots.

[Lohr1041]

Some bodies around military convoys, roof gardens and some other places have been empty for years now.

[Padds]

im a returning player in the starter area thinkim seeing this to.

the corpse is loot-able but the picture you get pop up is just a black square called empty

[Lisbeth]

Originally posted by Padds:

im a returning player in the starter area thinkim seeing this to.

the corpse is loot-able but the picture you get pop up is just a black square called empty

Yes exactly! My post wasn't very well written and I think I should've described it better

[Kuma]

I believe its normal, loot is rng and sometimes seaching can result in nothing being found.

The game was already like that since I started playing in december, so it is unrelated to this update.

[kreeg]

Originally posted by Kuma:

I believe its normal, loot is rng and sometimes seaching can result in nothing being found.

The game was already like that since I started playing in december, so it is unrelated to this update.

Nope, You are incorrect.

A brief history on looting corpses:

When DL2 was first released every single corpse was lootable, even empty corpses, and players did not like all the time wasted looting empty corpses. Trust me, it was a dreadful time sink looting corpses. Eventually Techland released an update that made all empty corpses unlootable. This dramatically saved the players time looting corpses which allowed us to get back into the action quicker.

Now we are at a state where many empty corpses are appearing lootable again, not all but a significant enough amount that it is bothersome. In-other-words, Techland broke something in a recent update. Granted the number of empty lootable corpses is not in a state as it was when DL2 was released, but again the number of empty lootable corpses has increased to a state that it is much more noticeable after the recent patch.

TL;DR Techland broke empty lootable corpses and they need to be made aware of it so they can restore corpse looting to it's intended behavior.

[Kuma]

Originally posted by kreeg:

Nope, You are incorrect.
A brief history on looting corpses: ...

Well like I mentioned the game was already like that since I started playing so it can't be the tower raid update specifically.

Also it isn't just about corpses but many of the lootable environment items also have nothing in them after searching, so it does seem intentional to a point.

In my opinion it would be weirder to find a backpack that isn't lootable at all then one that after searching is still empty, with corpses this is less of an issue because some end up so mangled that not even being able to loot them makes sense.

[Lisbeth]

Originally posted by Kuma:

Originally posted by kreeg:

Nope, You are incorrect.
A brief history on looting corpses: ...

Well like I mentioned the game was already like that since I started playing so it can't be the tower raid update specifically.

Also it isn't just about corpses but many of the lootable environment items also have nothing in them after searching, so it does seem intentional to a point.

In my opinion it would be weirder to find a backpack that isn't lootable at all then one that after searching is still empty, with corpses this is less of an issue because some end up so mangled that not even being able to loot them makes sense.

I honestly never had this issue before this update, so it's strange.

[Ragnin]

Just started playing and this happens from time to time with my friend and I. Was an answer ever given on what is causing it?

[Troy]

80% of loot I grab is "Empty" where in places it wouldn't be before.

[Penitence]

This is something that I know happens with certain outdated mods. If you are using any remove them, or try verify files on steam if there's a problem with your game files.

[Lisbeth]

Originally posted by Ragnin:

Just started playing and this happens from time to time with my friend and I. Was an answer ever given on what is causing it?

No answer sadly, but I know quite a few people have this issue.

Originally posted by Penitence:

This is something that I know happens with certain outdated mods. If you are using any remove them, or try verify files on steam if there's a problem with your game files.

I personally had no mods.