Dead geese floating in mid air [2662]

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Dead geese floating in mid air [2662]

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Had a problem with 2 dead geese floating up in the air out of reach.
Managed to harvest one but the other is floating above a road about 20ft in the air and i cant collect it.
I currently still playing but will try to post an image later.
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Re: Dead geese floating in mid air

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Bummer I didn't catch you earlier. This is a known bug, with a workaround.
If you're in MP, and the person who was associated with the spawning of that goose leaves, it should drop to the ground. (not necessarily the person who shot it).
If you're alone, you can walk out of render range (>220m) & come back & the goose should be harvest-able.

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Re: Dead geese floating in mid air

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Ok this is good to know.
I did consider the idea of leaving the area then returning but it was getting late and I didnt fancy the potential waste of time on one goose.
Thanks.
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Hunting alone in SP today I had one goose stuck up in the air. I know this happens in MP when 2 hunters hit the goose at the same time but I'm not sure what causes it in SP.

Anyway, I was carrying the .357 and I shot the dead carcass with it and low and behold the goose slowly sank down to earth until I could reach it and harvest it.

Would appreciate others to try this to see if it was just a fluke.
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Re: Floating geese

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The Dev's standard non-response response would be that your FPS was too low. :roll: I haven't personally seen this happen since Mallards were released. Maybe there was a spike in your connection to the server when you shot the goose, causing some sort of hiccup? Perhaps it was just a fluke after all.
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Re: Floating geese

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MudBug wrote:The Dev's standard non-response response would be that your FPS was too low. :roll:
Stuck in the air was to my knowledge not linked to low FPS but zig-zagging and zooming away of ragdolls.

I have had the OP's problem as well. I'd say in average in every 2nd hunt. Most of the time they just float a few cm above ground and are still harvestable, but sometimes they're up where they were shot.
Good FPS around 40-50, but not the best connection to the server as judged by inventory or harvest screen loading times. Ping times below concerns, though.

Leaving render range and coming back solved the problem every time.
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Re: Floating geese

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Did you try the .357? That was the purpose of my post.
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Re: Floating geese

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Had it happen again in my last hunt and the .357 did nothing to bring the dead goose down.

..........I guess it was a fluke the other day.
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Re: Dead geese floating in mid air [2662]

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Still Happening - I lost 4 in one hunt I just finished and one was on the ground but would not pick up on HM when collecting. FWIW - I did have a network disconnect - I was collecting at the time, I think that's the reason for the one on the ground glitching??? - but the floaters just never made it to the ground, but marker showed on the ground - and Doc knows it too - First time it's happened to me....
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Re: Dead geese floating in mid air [2662]

Post by Mumba »

I am sure that its not a fps problem at least for me. I have a good hardware and graphic card.
I never had that bug in single player but since the last update i have this bug many times , sometimes a very big part of my hunt
stay in the air,when its only 1 or 2 meters high i still can harvest but not higher.
Thanks for the tip to go away about 220 meters to be able to make them fall on the ground , i will try it.
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