Why are my animals just walking through my barriers?

[Astraeos]

Seriously, this game is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ buggy.

I've not been able to play this game at all bug free since release. What are you doing Frontier?

All of a sudden, literally all my animals can just freely walk through ANY BARRIER. Doesnt matter if I delete all of it and rebuild it, doenst matter what material the barrier is, my animals are just able to walk straight through all of them now.

Cool. Thanks Frontier for the great game.

[Funky Stunt]

Usually because people use climbable barriers with animals that can climb, they're too low or you have trees/buildings close to fences.

How about some images of the bad area/s?

[Astraeos]

I literally just told you that it happens with every single barrier type, including the barriers that the game marks as UNCLIMBABLE.

They are not CLIMBING the barrier. They are literally just warping straight through them.

[Funky Stunt]

Originally posted by Astraeos:

I literally just told you that it happens with every single barrier type, including the barriers that the game marks as UNCLIMBABLE.

They are not CLIMBING the barrier. They are literally just warping straight through them.

Sigh.... images?

[Zeesha]

Type of animal, height of fences? And what Funky just said :)

[EdenStarGazer]

IMHO the game is messed up temporarily. I've crashed 5 times in a row in the past hour. This is very unusual. I also have waterfall pieces floating in mid air where there were never waterfalls. I think somethings wrong on the server end. Hopefully it will clear up here soon.

[Metalhead123]

I saw this sort of thing when i bought the game. A Chimp would just warp through the barrier. It was high enough and made not climbable with the barrier option. I now have no problems. Have you got the latest update or turned on "Update this game Automatically" ?

[Funky Stunt]

Originally posted by Metalhead123:

I saw this sort of thing when i bought the game. A Chimp would just warp through the barrier. It was high enough and made not climbable with the barrier option. I now have no problems. Have you got the latest update or turned on "Update this game Automatically" ?

As an aside here (since I don't have it happen so it's a case of IIRC) the "warping" is simply the escaping mechanic. I've never seen them actually climb or do anything.

Invariably, the list I provided above are the 3 causes assuming barrier is not broken.

ED: Just recalled, I had it happen the other day with lemurs because their shelter was too close to the barrier. I just raised the fence panel by the shelter and it stopped.

[EdenStarGazer]

Originally posted by Funky Stunt:

Originally posted by Metalhead123:

I saw this sort of thing when i bought the game. A Chimp would just warp through the barrier. It was high enough and made not climbable with the barrier option. I now have no problems. Have you got the latest update or turned on "Update this game Automatically" ?

As an aside here (since I don't have it happen so it's a case of IIRC) the "warping" is simply the escaping mechanic. I've never seen them actually climb or do anything.

Invariably, the list I provided above are the 3 causes assuming barrier is not broken.

ED: Just recalled, I had it happen the other day with lemurs because their shelter was too close to the barrier. I just raised the fence panel by the shelter and it stopped.

IDK because I have seen them climb the wall if not climbproof. Literally climbing over. Also, I have screenshots of that and of them climbing trees to jump to the top of the wall. One in particular can be seen in my shared screenshots. I would think that if they are outside they climbed out or its a bug.

But, then what do I know. Just what I have seen and screenshotted.

[Funky Stunt]

Originally posted by EdenStarGazer:

IDK because I have seen them climb the wall if not climbproof. Literally climbing over. Also, I have screenshots of that and of them climbing trees to jump to the top of the wall. One in particular can be seen in my shared screenshots. I would think that if they are outside they climbed out or its a bug.

Hey, no, fair enough, you're probably right.

It may have even been an update thing because my very first zoos lost animals "warping" and it was only after I reported it I realised I was using climbable fences so assumed that's what the warp was for.

Now it doesn't happen so I don't see it.

[EdenStarGazer]

That's my thought as well Funky. I figured they must be patching or updating or something for these problems to come out of the blue in the same hour. Hopefully it will be back in working order here soon.

[Holden Tudiks]

I have had to add the non climbable portion to the top of every one of my barriers to keep animals from escaping. Even ones that cant climb. Also my game has crashed multiple time whether i'm just starting or 5 hours into game play. These are things I can deal with but the one thing I can't is the area of effect of the staff buildings. It is so annoying. Trying to make beautiful parks and its impossible with all the wasted space due to staff buildings.

[itsTrueBlu_]

I think there is an occasional bug with animals not properly registering barriers. Last week I made a peafowl habitat with cement walls that were at least 3m high and both of my peafowl just walked up to one of the back walls, stared at it for a while and then jumped through the barrier into the nextdoor habitat on after another like it was no big deal. I returned them to the habitat and the male peafowl did the exact same thing, so I deleted and replaced the barrier and it happened a third time, but he didnt do it again after I returned him to the habitat for the third time and hasn't happened since. I wish I got some screenshots, but I wasnt thinking about that at the time.
Peafowl are not climbing animals, they cant jump over 3m (in game at least), and the barrier was at 100% because I had just made it.

Long story short, I think it's just a somewhat rare bug.

[owendelancie]

Not a rare bug. In fact the bugs in this game are rampant. Even in tutorial mode doing exactly as told bugs with barriers and feeding enrichment items are everywhere. This seems like a hasty launch without the proper bug testing. Suits in the head office pushed developers for a release date no one really cared they made except their board members. Time for a refund until they get their crap together....

[Funky Stunt]

Originally posted by owendelancie:

Not a rare bug. In fact the bugs in this game are rampant. Even in tutorial mode doing exactly as told bugs with barriers and feeding enrichment items are everywhere. This seems like a hasty launch without the proper bug testing. Suits in the head office pushed developers for a release date no one really cared they made except their board members. Time for a refund until they get their crap together....

Probably best. Don't want to be playing a game with bugs, even the ones that aren't really.

[WhattyWhatWhat81]

Originally posted by owendelancie:

Not a rare bug. In fact the bugs in this game are rampant. Even in tutorial mode doing exactly as told bugs with barriers and feeding enrichment items are everywhere. This seems like a hasty launch without the proper bug testing. Suits in the head office pushed developers for a release date no one really cared they made except their board members. Time for a refund until they get their crap together....

Too much Hollywood