Melee hits not registering in latest unstable branch

[weak sedge]

Has this been reported on yet? Players swings with melee weapons are not registering all the time and its getting people killed

[halcyon nova]

I am not aware of such reports, is it reproducible on a new unmodded save?

[weak sedge]

I'll see if I can get that for you

[signal sonnet]

Encountering the same issue in coop with my gf

Got us very injured to the point where we comletely avoid combat atp

The only mods we have are cars

[tranquil fulcrum]

same thing for me in coop, using car mods too.

[fading sentinel]

Theres a bug report on both steam and TIS forums for similar / probably same issue

[quaint pasture]

Something similar happened to me last night playing on a friend's server, only mod on it was the propane fix mod. It didn't affect standing zombies, but zombies on the ground. I could stand on them, but it wouldn't let me stomp or hit with a weapon. I had to let them get up to hit them.

[tranquil fulcrum]

In case there's no fix you can still hit them with alt+left click to hit with melee on the ground

[outer sequoia]

same thing for me too

[summer granite]

Has anyone figured out a strategy for playing with this?

Someone suggested using alt+lmb to manually hit them works, not sure if true

Also playing with the hit indicator on so you get a fraction of a second to see the hitbox disappear when they get close

[azure basin]

Are you referring to this? https://discord.com/channels/136501320340209664/1462918014243704872

[summer granite]

Yeah this appears to be the same issue

[fading sentinel]

Gun only i guess

[azure basin]

there's a few solutions to this. relogging does fix it, and frequent server restarts can help. upon restarts, i noticed the rate of coming across these untargetable zombies decreases considerably.

i would also temporarily consider using the safe login mod since players are forced to constantly relog to deal with this.

you can actually hit untargetable zombies for a split second when they are at specific melee weapon ranges. multihit can help them become targetable again when their outline merges with those of unbugged zombies.

[summer granite]

All great suggestions. How often are you restarting your server @azure basin? We're restarting twice a day, and have noticed the issue crop up much more commonly in high pop areas like Louisville.

[azure basin]

not my server. i'm just a player, but i have made observations that restarts can help considerably. honestly.

https://discord.com/channels/136501320340209664/1462918014243704872 i didn't mean to send those comments here, i forwarded to this main thread and it's better to center all talks there.

[torpid verge]

rebooting and relogging is not necessarily a super practical solution on account of the frequency. i could only get in maybe 30min of gameplay between reoccurrences, and thats including the time i spent in character creation

[azure basin]

obviously the best solution would be for TIS to just drop a small hotfix to deal with this issue specifically since it's immensely game breaking for the MP community, i don't think that's gonna happen

[torpid verge]

yea its honestly pretty surprising theres been no hotfix, considering theres a lotta people (myself included) who are only interested in mp and it's practically unplayable rn

[azure basin]

something i noticed is that if you allocate more ram for the server (over 8gb) it tends to happen less frequently. the server i've been playing had a 8gb xmx cap and as soon as it was raised, i felt huge improvements.

this is on a dedicated server with a pretty beefy cpu though

[torpid verge]

we were playing on a dedicated server with 12gb ram and it was happening even when people were alone on the server

[deft wasp]

Having this problem on my server as well. Makes me really not want to do any kind of melee combat

[tiny oracle]

Still happens after B42.14.1