#Altar/Floating
dire solstice
Okay making this a thread to keep all the info easy to access. Just to recap the stuff above. You are having one altar in the mountains causing you to float indefinitely when you teleport to it.
and it's just happening at this location.
Do you have another spare altar spot where you could place another altar nearby and see if it happens there as well?
slender lichen
I have removed the alter in question and put another down, about 100 meters away and it does the same thing. None of the other alters do this. Only at Polaris Falls.
dire solstice
I have removed the alter in question and put another down, about 100 meters away...
Right, just trying to see if two altars in the area at the same time also both have the issues.
slender lichen
I'm maxed out right now. But both the first one and this one in the same area seem to have about a 20% fail rate.
dire solstice
Out of curiosity, were both altars placed on the ice there? Just trying to figure out what might be the underlying cause of the issue.
Also, do you notice any pattern to when it fails? like does it always happen when you teleport from a certain area or anything like that?
slender lichen
I carved out a flat spot on the mountain for both locations.
No pattern, completly random.
I've carved out way more since to see if that helps.
I now have a clean 3x3 square waiting to see if it does it again.
Just happened again. Should I do a minidump?
dire solstice
Hmm. Not the whole thing. I would say verify your game files on steam and do a system restart to see if it's maybe something there, but you aren't crashing, so most of it wouldn't do much.
slender lichen
you mean like reboot the computer?
dire solstice
you mean like reboot the computer?
yeah. Go into steam first and right click on the game in your library list and go to Properties > Installed Files and click on "Verify the integrity of game files" when it's complete, then restart your computer.
slender lichen
Doubt this is related, but sometimes when I open the game is says my settings are bad and asks me to reset them. Only thing I have to change after the reset is the mouse sensitivity settings.
dire solstice
Doubt this is related, but sometimes when I open the game is says my settings ar...
Without knowing how everything is programmed, I couldn't tell you for sure, but I can't imagine they are related. But we can try and look into why that might be happening as well.
slender lichen
validated, going for a reboot.
dire solstice
If it's still happening after, can you do me a favor and show me a screenshot that shows where, approximately, your altar is located - maybe one of it up close on the map and one showing the altar an the surrounding area. I am gonna try and reproduce it in my world.
slender lichen
I've loaded the game a bunch of times and the only time it fails like that is when my VPN is turned on. VPN off, unable to replicate. Still only that one alter produced this issue.
dire solstice
I've loaded the game a bunch of times and the only time it fails like that is wh...
Are you playing on a server?
slender lichen
Are you playing on a server?
local only
dire solstice
If you are playing local, nothing in your VPN should be affecting anything in a solo game. The only thing that would go out is a cloud save if you have it on, which shouldn't affect your gameplay... At least not something so very specific as one altar location
But you have never had it happen when you turned your VPN off?
dire solstice
okay... THAT is an odd one. I can only think that maybe something is happening when you load that area that, for whatever reason, is being sent out across the VPN. It might be somewhere in your VPN settings - but the issue is so specific, it's weird.
And honestly, I don't know enough about VPN's to be able to say for sure what could be causing it.
The only thing I know about them (that may be relevant) is that you can set your location - and maybe your steam location and the VPN locations are too far away... or something?
slender lichen
Its possible that some network folder are not accessible when the VPN is turned on. I find it odd thats the loading issue is random and only this location.
For now, I'll just make sure vpn is turned off for now.
dire solstice
For now, I'll just make sure vpn is turned off for now.
Yeah. I would also maybe report your findings in the bug report from in the game. I don't think it's an issue with the game, but on the off chance it might be, at least they have the information.
slender lichen
I'll do that, I appreciate your time.