Patch 8.3 | Performance Issues MASTER THREAD

[frank thicket]

If you are experiencing crashing, lagging, frame drops, etc. since updating to patch 8.3, please post your issues here.

Please include:

• Description of problem
• When the problem occurs
• Platform

Reach out to support to submit a ticket for personal assistance.

@short plover

@harsh crest

@mellow jacinth

@kindred pendant

[kindred pendant]

Opening the map on a continued game caused the game to freeze and crash.
I am on PC, playing through Steam. After the update and patch, I restarted my PC and restarted Steam.

[hard kite]

Same on XBOX

[glossy oriole]

Opening the map and my game crashed. PS4.

[spiral valley]

It usually happens when I’m on the pause menu on Xbox one

[kindred pendant]

But I just selected a new reserve and on there I can open the map and menu without crashing.
Before when I would use the hot keys for my inventory it would open the menu and be fine as long as I didn't open the map.

[spiral valley]

Here’s a pic of it freezing when opening the pause menu

[short plover]

Opening the menu causes the game to crash... I'm on pc, Windows 10, Steam. I've already checked file integrity on Steam, restart the computer and game, but every time the game crashes when opening the menu. I cannot equip my gear...I can't do anything in the menu.
Update: Restarted, select another Reserve, doesn't help. The game start as it should, I can run, shoot, open the storage or call the vehikel, but can't open the menu... It is unplayable....
Update 2: I've restored a backup (one just before the update) but this doesn't solve the problem either 😢

[runic talon]

Opening the Map causes my Game to lag, I‘m on PS5

[dense gyro]

The map is running very slowly. I'm playing on Xbox Series X.

[spiral valley]

If y’all do fix this will it corrupt my game?

[short plover]

Same with me

[vestal obsidian]

My game crashed, while placing down a feeder. 😅
Before that, the map had like 3 fps..

[stark stratus]

PS5: on opening the map in game it is really slow and buggy, using the menus is also the same in the map menu, movement on the map menu is real slow and selecting anything also is: selecting place waypoint and fast travel etc.

I have also had some black screen freezes when opening the map also.

[mellow jacinth]

It’s very unbearable on Xbox to go into map screen and try to travel between tents. The lag is extremely bad.

[near wedge]

Same happened to me, i hope it doesnt corrupt my save file, but at least i made regular backups of it

[high widget]

my game crashes on pc trying to open map

[near wedge]

same, i thought it was because i changed the resolution, but even with different ones was the same, also i was looking to see if the game did not update from epic games but i dont have any pending updates so..

[high widget]

i just tried a different map and it's only layton lake that is crashing

[near wedge]

it crashed on hirschfelden too

[coarse relic]

Hello. PC Steam. I press M for map and game crashes. Repeatable. Game in unplayable state currently. Was playing fine earlier today. Only after latest update.

[fallow geode]

New pack itself isn't showing up even after re-installing pack, and restarting game multiple times.

[coarse relic]

Just verified on PC. STill happening. Sent crash report

[twilit sonnet]

I have same problem I open map and game crashed I play on steam please help I sent report on cotw support

[coarse relic]

I tested a few times. Esc key and M key CTD 100% of the time.

[near wedge]

same

[twilit sonnet]

Check this video

Not working

[near wedge]

exactly like this for me

[twilit sonnet]

I am reinstall game and verification integrity files and still not working

[plush flare]

My game is really laggy when I open up my map and try to travel to my tents

[torn finch]

PS4 here, also experiencing severe lag/frame rate drop when opening the map

[inner lotus]

Ps5. Also experiencing major lag on the map.

[oak oyster]

Low frame rate when opening map on ps4.

[twilit sonnet]

Same on steam and all platforms

[golden parrot]

Opening the map causes lag and fps drop, it's not that severe for me but I have a good pc so that might be the reason, I'm on steam

[short plover]

Exactly the same with me..

[muted night]

I also had crashes but after trying and trying again I managed to stay in.
The first few crashes were rather instant after opening the map/menu.
In later tries it would try to load the map and crash eventually.
After that I advanced to super laggy map and laggy game.
And now I can play almost normally after more restarts.

I play on Steam and I use the Animal Population Scanner.

[coarse relic]

Thanks for this... i persisted... its allowed me to view the map... for now.

[muted night]

Great that it worked for you too!

[plush flare]

My stuff is still laggy no matter if I restart my console or no matter if I restart the game

[dawn oak]

Been lagging for me as well for the map open on the menu. No crash tho just very slow. Xbox

[visual wing]

If you're crashing/laggy from opening the map, which reserve are you on?

[stark stratus]

I’ve submitted a ticket and followed the steps given:

**Restart your console to clear any temporary system or memory issues.

Check available storage space on your console.

Clear the cache by performing a full power cycle (turn off the console completely, unplug for 30 seconds, then restart).**

I also deleted the game and reinstalled it, the issues still persist PS5

[short plover]

I have tried Medved, Yukon and Herschfelden. All crashing by opening the menu

[jagged badge]

1. i started the game
2. load into my last played map (hirschfelden) and i have a good frame rate. better then usaual.
3. i hopen the map and the game crashes

i`m on steam btw

[orchid musk]

PS4: everything worked fine until I tried to open the map when I hopped in the session.

This was my screen for 3-4 minutes until it finally loaded.

[fleet gorge]

I have a theory... to those who are crashing when opening the map or have laggy fps while in map, do y'all have lots of zones discovered or tents/tripods placed along with the new feeders? I have zero issues on both Series X and PS5 but they're also fresh maps with very little done in the way of actual hunting and exploring. No tents/tripods, hardly any zones, no feeders.

[mossy bison]

howdy folks, we are tracking these issues and trying to identify the issue. if i could ask a favor for anyone affected, this prob only pertains to console but its worth trying on PC as well.

When you get in game please try this:

1. From the Start menu
2. Interface
3. Turn POI ICONS MAP -> OFF

restart your game and let me know if that helps with the lag please

[fleet gorge]

Interesting how you state to turn off POIs when that's my theory above 🙂

[orchid musk]

Your theory is the same as mine. That is usually how it works, too, in the past. I purposefully opened Mississippi up though to see how well it fared- and i do have a fair bit of equipment on the map, as well as zones. If this map doesnt perform well, its bad news bears lol

[short plover]

Hi Kip, I do have a lot of drinkzones and the max tents/tripods etc. (long playing this map) but I have not the Feeder DLC. I do have all DLC's but not the Feeders

[mossy bison]

hey kip^^ been a while sir. yes that is our thoughts atm. it may be related to certain machines struggling with a lot of need zones. justa theory but we are testing atm

[orchid musk]

I can’t even get to the settings from the menu. The lag is unreal. It’s detecting my controller movement and lagging a LOT but I can’t navigate the menu to the settings.

On ps4. Sorry, slow mode lol

[mossy bison]

what platform are you on?

ps4, roger that. ty

[short plover]

YES!!!!! This is working on PC !!!! BUT NO FAST Traveling because all Icons are gone...also the lodges etc.

[orchid musk]

Thank you!
I’m going to try to close the app and restart. Will load up an empty map and attempt settings change.

I’d just hate if this was the new normal for us older gen players. I know it’s not ideal for everyone but oof. Mississippi is my favorite map and I’d like to keep playing it. Lol

[fleet gorge]

Then there's the thing of maybe PS4/Xbox One having a harder time keeping up with newer (5 years old, sheesh lol) consoles and higher-grade PCs

[mossy bison]

I know its not ideal to hunt with poi's off but that is very helpful. thank you!

[short plover]

For me it is not a big issue, I can Fast travel again and look on my map, so thank you! OOPS....I cannot Fast Travel 🙁 All is turned off....

[fleet gorge]

I guess I could put a shameless plug (if it's okay) for this: https://discord.com/channels/393040947006406657/1428785616472248441

[mellow jacinth]

So far in a random multiplayer game there is no issue.
Seems to be only solo play. Xbox series X.

[mossy bison]

is the mp map loaded with zones?

[short plover]

JaxyBeard: it is a problem because I cannot Fast Travel because all Icons are gone....Lodges, POI's Huntingstructures, Tripods etc

[mellow jacinth]

Of course. I don’t see why that’s an issue.

Map screen works fine in multiplayer. Only solo play it lags very bad.

[orchid musk]

This is my issue as well. I’m fine with wandering but I have lots of setups and don’t want to travel miles across the entire map all the time. I so hope they find a fix for this.

Also, for PS4- I tried the recommendation for turning off POI map icons but it’s still the same story. Taking ~3 minutes to load the map.

[dawn oak]

I don’t get it on salzwiesen but I got it on Yukon

[muted night]

I have the better pc in our household. But it was only me having the crashes.

[mossy bison]

yes i know this isnt ideal. its not meant as a work around, this is something we are looking to resolve, but that was very useful in helping us locate the possible culprit. thank you

[mossy bison]

may i ask, how are your zones on both those maps. does yukon have more zones discovered than Salz?

[mellow jacinth]

Not sure if it’s Medved specific? I’m onto my 5th great one moose grind.
While still having 3 on the map. And a bunch of rares.

[dawn oak]

Similar, I can take screenshots if you want

It wouldn’t happen to be with maps that have gray wolves?

[mossy bison]

so far it looks like any map that has a lot of need zones

[orchid musk]

No, it’s happening on others too

[jagged badge]

i only tried on hirsch, but i can say that my hirsch has lots of zones

[mellow jacinth]

Would it be a code issue where a number and or a letter would cause the issue? Everything worked fine before the update.
The lag is terrible. Please find the root cause and fix please.

[orchid musk]

Is there any way to maybe have need zones take up less… computing power, I suppose? The delay has always been an issue but people restart their maps and new game because the need zones become too much. Maybe in the future there would be a way to avoid that.

[mossy bison]

also, to anyone with issues on PC, make sure you do not have any mods installed as they will be out of date and cause you great issues. we can not help with that. 👍

[mellow jacinth]

I’m on Xbox. Please figure out the issue. This is horrible.

[mossy bison]

have you tried turning off your POI's?

[fleet gorge]

A "legend" would be great for a game like this. The ability to turn on or off icons at your will. You don't wanna see rest zones, boom, just click a toggle and they're gone. Don't wanna see a bunch of green question marks, just toggle that switch and Bob's your uncle.

[vagrant kelp]

I tried turning of the POI's and it worked in fixing the lagging. I'm on PS5 as well.

[mellow jacinth]

What is POI??

[short plover]

JaxyBeard: I turned off POI Icons Map then turned it ON again but turned off POI Icons and entered the game again. Yes, I could open the map/Menu. Then returned to Main Menu, Interface and turned on POI Icons again (all is on ON again) re-entered the game and I now can open the map normally but it is slower to navigate on the map then it should be or was. But, the game itself is just as snappy as it was.s

So: Turn off the POI Icon Map, enter the game, Exit to Main Menu again, turned it ON again and turn OFF POI Icons, re-enter the game, Exit to Main Menu, turn ON POI ICONS again and re-enter the game. Then it is okay again accept navigating the map is slower then usual. I can Fast Travel again too. This is on PC/Steam

[mossy bison]

Point of interest. there is a setting to turn it off in "Interface"

[orchid musk]

PS4: turned off POI map icons and loaded in but it didn’t work, restarted game and found out the settings didn’t save.

Changed settings back to this. Included poi icons but it seems like this has no effect on the lag, it’s just the map icons. It saved now. Game works very smooth with no issues loading the map. Just no icons 🫡

ETA: need zone icons are always off, for me. This doesn’t seem to affect anything either.

[mossy bison]

one more request my friends! for anyone with these issues on console if you can DM me your Gamertag we can look on the back end. Thats all we need to looksie

[nova kestrel]

Everytime I open my map and menu it freezes or is so laggy the game is unplayable

[stark plover]

1. I'm entering medved where is my setup for moose grind
2. Open map
3. Boom crash

[orchid musk]

Check the previous messages and try to do the solution they posted. It helped me. 🤞🏻 they’re still working on a proper fix but that should make it playable

[mellow jacinth]

This is not working on Xbox.

[orchid musk]

Did it save for you? The first time I tried it, the setting didn’t actually save for me so it looked like it wasn’t working

I changed the settings and went right back into the map immediately. That worked.

[nova kestrel]

Have tried 2 different maps and it's the same for both freezes in the map menu, my maps are covered with need zones, icons all over

[mossy bison]

if you can DM me your Xbox gamertag we can take a look.

[mossy bison]

have you tried to turn off your POI's yet?

When you get in game please try this:

1. From the Start menu,
2. Interface,
3. Turn POI ICONS MAP -> OFF

[stark plover]

I did like said in recommendations and it helped me, but map is really laggy
But it's playable for now

[nova kestrel]

Just turned off my map I icons and can scroll around the map and access the menu now

[mossy bison]

ok, thats good news. sounds like we have the culprit pretty well nailed down. I know this isnt an ideal way to hunt but at least you can get in game and play. we are working on a fix right now. please pass this around if you see anyone with these issues 🙏

[nova kestrel]

I am on PS4, and my game name N-J-ZICK

Thanks for getting after a fix

[mellow jacinth]

Sent

[wintry dust]

Opening the map causes extreme lag however accessing the other menus had no significant changes. Game became unresponsive, however, no crashes as of yet. I am playing on Xbox One and will submit another report if any updates occur

[plush flare]

I've tried multiple maps and still can't and still can't load up my asky

[unreal pollen]

Hasn't crashed on PS4 for me but it's very laggy on the map screen

[dreamy storm]

Hi,
I'm having the same issue as mentioned above, playing via Steam on PC, whenever I try to open a map/settings game freezes and instantly crashes. I have a lot of discovered zones. Disabling POI works but thats not the solution to this issue.
Tbh you should kinda be embarassed by this because it is really giving vibes that you didn't test it at all especially since content creators were reporting having the same issue in the early acces. If we would release something like this in my company the users would eat us alive

[plush flare]

I'm on ps5 and can't loud up my asky but u can loud up other maps and still be laggy but won't crash never had an issue with nun of my maps

[orchid musk]

To be fair, I doubt they didn’t test it. They have a team that does that, as per normal. This isn’t an issue for everyone so I’m willing to bet they tested but it’s just taking a toll for certain folks based on their hardware. That’s something you can’t really account for during play testing. Just gotta figure it out when it goes live.

[plush flare]

But I've also tired on my pc and only got 16 tents and only mule deer zones and it's laggy to

[hazy spoke]

Since updating, I cant go to the menu once I get into the reserve or go directly to the map. Game freezes every time. I'm on PC, steam download. I've verified files twice.

[upbeat sand]

All of my reticles got reset to basic ones, I play on Xbox

[spiral valley]

Yeah did that to me

[green solar]

there's a temporary fix:
From the Start menu,
Interface,
Turn POI ICONS MAP -> OFF

but this in turn implies you can't travel anywhere if you turn both options off lol; i can turn on POI ICONS MAP but super laggy. with both icons on, it crashes immediately.
it looks like they're looking into it so hopefully the fix happens soon 🙏

[viscid fox]

I’m having an issue where I open the map screen it is very laggy I am on Xbox one what do I do

[green solar]

temporary fix:

From the Start menu,
Interface,
Turn POI ICONS MAP -> OFF

this implies you won't be able to travel to anything but you can still play. I'm having the same issues, but they're looking into a fix for it

[viscid fox]

Thanks sooo much also will they fix this is it going around for everyone

[green solar]

i don't know when they'll fix it but hopefully soon! it's happening to a select amount of people depending on hardware I believe

[viscid fox]

Yea ok thanks sooo much your such a help I was super frustrated 😁

[proud nova]

My game was crashing when I opened the world map to teleport. It helped to disable the cloud save and manually reset the population on the maps in the game files. Now I can open the map normally and move from tent to tent.

[orchid musk]

Regardless of how it was tested, you can’t account for every issue under the sun. Some things have to be ironed out upon release and can’t be worked on prior, due to the sheer amount of people playing. You really can’t guarantee anything will be free of issues upon release.

Idk, I’ve been playing games for a long time. Seen a lot. This isn’t really news for a game of this caliber. We just have to sit patient and wait. The team are already well on their way to figuring out the issue and posting a fix for everyone. They’re already doing a lot more with a lot less than most other teams do.

[amber kite]

I will point out three things:

• The initial update install took literal hours, which is bizarre. Even fully installing Red Dead Redemption took faster.
• Before update, I was having some optimization issues where the screen would freeze occasionally. Not a game-breaker since it was only occasionally, but it was frequent enough that it got annoying.
• As of currently playing the game right now immediately after downloading the new update, game is acting slow. It took several minutes to load up the lodge. It just now loaded in.

I'm on PC. Unsure my specs or whatever it is called, but it was running fine on max graphics previously.

[remote pagoda]

I don’t see the feeders in the shop. Should they be under portable structures? I did buy the dlc and update the game.

[spring geyser]

Turning off the POI icons on map as resolved the problem for me on PS4.

[amber kite]

Yeah game seems slower than usual, not game-breakingly so, just is.

Lol nvm just crashed 10 mins into update

[karmic portal]

the mini map has really bad frame issues since the patch, happening for anyone else?

[orchid musk]

What platform are you on?

I’ll add to this for info.
On PS4.

• initial update only took less than an hour, which was actually faster than normal for us.
• I had the freezing issue too, usually when opening map or selecting tracks with binoculars. Especially scat and disturbed vegetation tracks.
• after the update, a smoother frame rate was definitely noticeable. Still a small delay when picking up scat/veg but haven’t experienced anything drastic yet like before. Biggest issue is still map load time/freezing, for me.

[amber kite]

Oh, I'm on PC! Edited the original message

[orchid musk]

You sound mad. Sorry you’re having issues. It could very well happen for multiple reasons, hence why this thread exists for people to share their experience and troubleshoot so the team behind the scenes can figure this out asap.

That being said, you have to understand one person on a “normal save with need zones on the map” isn’t going to magically fix the issues. You need a much bigger sample size. Some things are going to slip through when you don’t have a huge team on hand to test for a game like this. That is genuinely how it is.

[green solar]

yes unfortunately; temporary fix would be:

From the Start menu,
Interface,
Turn POI ICONS MAP -> OFF

this implies you won't be able to travel to anything but you can still play. I'm having the same issues, but they're looking into a fix for it 🙏😭

[amber kite]

Nvm... i keep crashing. I will wait for performance fixes

[vivid dagger]

the glitch isnt happening to me, isnt happening to several others. its not inconceivable that a small team of testers might never encounter the issue. get over yourself lol

[honest zinc]

The issue is:

• Mini map without icons (tents, need zones, PI…) → fast dragging
• Mini map with icons → slow dragging (lagging)

[arctic gate]

Let’s quit it.

[lethal seal]

Iight guys.
There is no need to be going on and ripping at one another.

This is here strictly for the team to see what is happening and who is affected.
If you aren't dealing with the issue at hand - you don't necessarily need to comment. Arguing and trolling will get you timed out -

[near wedge]

Yeah exactly, we don't need to throw stones at each other, I'm pretty sure there's a few lines of code in this patch that collide with the existing code before the update, we need patience, they will find it

[arctic gate]

And that’s the only warning

[tender marsh]

There appear to be at least two things occurring here, which likely have a similar root cause.

#1. Opening the map for the first time in a session can cause the game to freeze for a nonspecific amount of time. On some systems, when accessing maps that have large numbers of icons (need zones, deployables, etc.) visible, this pause may be long enough to cause the client to crash.

#2. Navigating around the map while there are a large number of icons visible can be considerably slower than it was before on some systems.

In the first case, navigating to Settings -> Interface and changing POI MAP ICONS to OFF, from the main menu, before entering a reserve can be sufficient to allow you to open the map for the first time. You can then turn POI MAP ICONS back ON, however, you will likely still encounter slower performance due to #2.

Leaving POI MAP ICONS off will prevent #2, but you need the icons on to be able to fast travel, of course.

[orchid musk]

Just a note in regards to this- for me, on ps4, after changing the setting and restarting I noticed that the settings did not save which resulted in the map still being laggy.

Changing this setting, then immediately hopping into the game seemed to work best. Something to try for those who may still be experiencing issues. 🙏🏻

[viscid fox]

Hello I am having issues with my game I am on Xbox one and when I updated my game today my map screen is super laggy

[half bane]

The map is really framey when going into the map in the menu, trying to fast travel etc

[lethal seal]

[random quest]

I'm not getting any tracking visuals . Also tried restarting and reinstalling. Double checked settings aswell.(Steam pc) My friend also got no tracking visuals we both tried hosting same issue for both of us

[mossy bison]

it would be very helpful if you could DM me your Xbox gametag and we can take a closer look.

[spiral valley]

When will this be fixed no rush

[gray cliff]

On Xbox One S upon opening the map menu the game experiences extreme frame drops both zoomed in and out. The frame return when anywhere out of the map menu including switching to inventory or other menus within the UI screen

[half bane]

Seems like when you’re running and go to the menu/map, the frames drop and your character starts to almost walk, maybe even slower in the background

[brave tapir]

@glossy oriole same with me on PS4

[prisma carbon]

I'm on XBOX Series S, the game runs great, but when I open the map to fast travel or place a way-point it is incredibly laggy.

[old rose]

This is a great opportunity to add https://discord.com/channels/393040947006406657/1428785616472248441

[misty raft]

My game is also freezing and crashing when I open the map

Doing what Jaxy said solved the issue for me, on the crash

When I turn it on again the game doesn't crash but the map becomes extreeeeemeeeeellyyyyyyyy laggy, really impossible to navigate

I'm on PC, windows 10, with a very potent gaming rig

[minor geyser]

Opening my map on Xbox one S freezes the game

[umbral elbow]

I'm having the same issue. opening my map freezes my game and it's lagging moving around.

[real rose]

Opening my map is making my entire game lag I’m on Xbox

[viscid fox]

When will this be fixed

[worldly spindle]

Opening the map to fast travel makes me lag a ton on PS4

[severe ether]

Same here on Xbox

[amber kite]

Okay yeah, this patch entirely broke the game for me. I am on a PC setup that used to run TheHunter COTW full graphics without any issues. Now I am crashing the moment I go to a lake with reduced graphics.

[worldly spindle]

gonna have to wait 3 months til the devs actually fix this and im able to play the game again 😭

[unkempt acorn]

Xbox One, map is almost entirely unusable and takes literal minutes to even load after pressing the button. On my Series X it is somewhat slower then before but still usable.

[spiral valley]

When will this be fixed

[viscid fox]

Yea I want to play soooo bad and I can’t even use the map

[bronze brook]

This bug gets me so mad

[jaunty beacon]

PS5: using the menus is also the same in the map menu, movement on the map menu is real slow and selecting anything also is: selecting place waypoint and fast travel etc.

I have also had some black screen freezes when opening the map also.

[terse wadi]

i cant even fast travel

idk where i am i want to hunt wolves 😭

[snow island]

• Game is excruciatingly slow with the map open. I’ve turned off POIs icons, which helps, but still slow. Turning off POI icons map, is much better, but I can’t fast travel.
• This is happening on my Layton Lakes map, which has a lot of need zones.
• Xbox

Reach out to support to submit a ticket for personal assistance.

[neat acorn]

Xbox Series X, all scopes have had custom reticles reset to default.

[lusty cliff]

when I enter the map for the first time the game freezes for a while, and there is slowness in the movement of the map. PC

[lethal seal]

dont forget to check pins

[final cloud]

I play on PC/Steam, same issue as many other players -> starting the game works well but if i want to enter the menu or try to open the map (what probably is the same) the game freeze and crash shorty after the freeze
i already try checking files, i also deinstalled/reinstalled the game nothing works for me

[dusty ore]

Askiy Ridge map is VERY laggy on PS5.

[lethal seal]

Did you check the pinned messages in here, where one of the Devs explained a solution

[rugged bronze]

my map keeps crashing my game.. i cant turn off the POI ICONS MAP cus then i cant fast travel

[lethal seal]

I mean.,. There are legs, and also ATVs if you have access to them.
It's inconvenient - but you aren'T trapped in one spot - just temporarily slowed down

[rugged bronze]

yeah.. you right

[lethal seal]

Sorry it's affecting you, though :C
Hopefully the team cooks up a fix real fast

[rugged bronze]

i have faith

[lethal seal]

[short plover]

Yes, first turn off POI Map then enter the game, get back to Main Menu, Interface and turn POI Map ON again and enter your game again. Then you can use the Map and Fast Travel. Once you leave the game completely then you have to follow the above steps again.

[rugged bronze]

does that fix the lag?

[short plover]

Not the lag on the map but I have no lag during playing. So, just try it out.

[rugged bronze]

oh... gameplay is just fine, but when i open the map it crashes

[viscid fox]

Is this bug fixed yet

[severe ether]

No

[short plover]

Just read the walk arounds....and pinned messages and you can play until there is a fix.

[spiral valley]

Can’t grind wolves without the icons so hopefully this fix is soon

[pale kayak]

I'm on xbox series X i pre ordered the feeder pack on the 13th October downloaded and went to play lastnight only to find when my game had loaded up there was no sign of the feeders anywhere on the in game store not from tents or outposts i closed down my game reopened it checked again only to have the same result no sign of the feeders anywhere so i checked my xbox call of the wild addons that i own and in the 41 dlc/addons i own the feeder pack was there and installed so i then thought ok maybe i could unistall the pack then re install it. Then when i went to the call of the wild add ons it was no longer anywhere to be seen like i didnt own it.

However earlier today it was showing in the management for my add ons and let me reinstall the feeder pack but still no sign of the feeder anywhere in game. Also at the bottom of the call of the wild title screen when you load up and it shows you the dlcs its not showing like i own the dlc again its sending me to the store to buy it again even tho i clearly own it its installed on my xbox. Very annoying situation!

Anyone know how this gets fixed???

I would like to be able to actually use what ive payed for.

[lethal seal]

OH man that is aggravating :C
Sorry to hear something somewhere is stuffed up.
I think - ultimately - your best course of action is to contact both the Xbox support team and the cotw support team and work in tandem with the both of them.

Write the same initial message to them - explain you are writing to the other support team as well - and hopefully between the two something can be sorted out :C

Here is the cotw support link: https://support.thehunter.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

[bronze brook]

Yea I am so mad because I bought the new dlc and can’t even use it 😩

[hard kite]

Opened the game twice today. 2 minutes of play time cuz ts is unplayable

[jagged badge]

okay i tried everything mentioned here and it worked. navigating over the map is slow but its playable 👍

[short delta]

For me, it's noticeable drop to performance/frame rate when the map is up/on the screen and the map has any of the feeders displayed on the map. Single player and multiplayer. PC.

[lethal seal]

Have you checked the pinned messages and followed the steps illustrated there?

[twilit sonnet]

Fix this shadow bug please

[rugged bronze]

do you have any mods? have you tried to verify the game files?

[slate hemlock]

The ATV waypoint is glitching

[dapper quest]

XBOX S Opening the map and moving the cursor is lagging slow.

Xbox so while running if I open the map to see where I want to go etc.. my running slows wayway down. Also the map cursor is slow to look around on it.

[lethal seal]

Please check the pinned messages, if you have not yet

[muted wigeon]

Having the same problem

[worldly spindle]

The pinned messages literally don’t help, I need POIs to fast travel. I don’t mean to be an ass, but this isn’t the way to respond to a bug making your game unplayable, simply just work toward fixing it.

[lethal seal]

First and foremost - I'm just a mod in the discord server, I do not Dev the game. I cannot fix the issues, I can only redirect people towards what two seperate Devs have written in response.

I am sorry the game is slowed down because you need to walk from A to B instead of instantaneous fast travel options. I get that its annoying. Yes, it immensely slows down the gameplay, and that is a drag.
-# Edit: Also the ATV. Yes its annoying it is so loud - but its infinitely faster than feet*

That said... The Devs are working on the issue, however this is their best solution at the moment so people can at least get into the game and play it while they work on a proper solution.

[jade dawn]

^^ it takes time to make patches

[fleet gorge]

Just gonna reply to myself because I think a feature like what I mentioned would be a game changer in terms of the map layout. But I'm also not experiencing issues so I don't even know why I'm here 🙂

[short plover]

Try this workaround, it works with me (I’m on pc/Steam): first turn off POI Map then enter the game, get back to Main Menu, Interface and turn POI Map ON again and enter your game again. Then you can use the Map and Fast Travel. Once you leave the game completely then you have to follow the above steps again. Navigate on the map will have some lag but the game works fine.

[mellow jacinth]

@lethal seal maybe try a different approach when answering questions with the issues at hand, bikes and walking around with two legs is probably the wrong answer when a person grinding within a map.
Try the devs are working hard to resolve this issue. Please be patient as we working diligently on this issue.

[lethal seal]

Perhaps
but alas. I can only strive to be better.

[mellow jacinth]

@lethal seal you are extremely amazing with all the amount of bs you have encountered within this issue. 🙂

[spiral valley]

How long would it take on average for a patch to be fixed because I’m in a hurry to grind for the g1 wolf and this bug is stopping me

[jade dawn]

Probably Friday or Monday I’d guess

[karmic isle]

bro same

[hazy spoke]

Tried the workaround by turning off POI's still freezing when I go to the menu or try to go to the map.

[hard kite]

The map POI dissable thing? Yeah. Makes grinding impossible.

[orchid musk]

Maybe now would be a perfect time to try wandering around some new maps or areas you haven’t explored? The game still has plenty in it to enjoy besides grinding, and that’s coming from someone who also grinds. Sometimes it’s nice to just walk around and chill out every once in a while.

[hard kite]

Sadly I already know what animals I have on my map. Wont get a suprise rare or diamond. And people getting their G1 wolves doesnt make it better

[orchid musk]

Well ya gotta shoot em, ma dude- that’s how ya get more rares and diamonds. I totally understand though, I’m in the same boat as you. We’ll get our opportunity when the next patch comes out in the next couple days. If you give it a chance, the game really is phenomenal aside from the process of fast traveling and shooting animals methodically. Shoot some ish. Have a good time. They’ll put out the fix soon, all we can do is be patient.

[loud pollen]

I can't even get into the game after the patch. Freezes on the initial blacl loading screen with a solid white hex in lower left corner and a spinning win11 wheel. Restarting computer helped once but game froze when scrolling thru keybind screen. Restarted and back to black screen problem. Restarted again, no change. Anyone else have game loading issues after patch or only when changing maps?

[frank thicket]

Mods are not part part of avalanche and aren't able to tell you things like this. They only spread info we've already given or theorize the same as anyone else would.

We are investigating the issue currently. Meanwhile this is a temporary fix while we investigate it; it's not a permanent solution.

If you want to play meanwhile, all we can do is give tips on playing in the state that it is currently until there is one.

[lilac beacon]

Has the new community challenge already started or I'm expecting a bug here?

[old rose]

When it is started, you can see it here on the discord, for me it says in about 30 min give or take

[frank thicket]

It's started, we haven't announced yet but it's available:)

[lilac beacon]

Ok then. What are the requirements because my game doesn't say as you can see?

[spiral valley]

Haven’t been on the game since the bug happened can’t grind wolves with no icons I pray this patch comes out within the next couple of days because it’s holding me from getting the g1 wolf

[severe ether]

I had to new game this summer because of it. I had too many need zones on NEM on xbox one (video below) and it took 11 s to open the map (which crashed my game 1/3 times i tried). I'm fox grinding in NEM and I tried that tactic back then to no avail (it helped a lot with opening the map without crashing, but I couldn't fast-travel, and when I could after re-activating POI icons of the map, well the 1/3 times returned). However, since my yukon will likely never be as stacked in need zones as I did with my last save's NEM (more cautious this time), everything is going great this time. When I open map in yukon, it's quite laggy, but no crash occuring so far (which is good).

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Having found too many zones (July 2025) in NEM on xbox one caused the map to experience similar lag to the g1 wolf update (which is another plausible cause of the lag of some people). It took 11 s to open the map and the fox grinding was impossible. A solution would be to make a parameters to either desactive POI Icons while keeping activated tents and outposts icons if possible. I had to new game because of it 2 months and a half ago.

This was what my NEM looked like then.

[lilac beacon]

Nah, I give up. It's completely unplayable at this stage.

[frank thicket]

Can you see it now? I realized the event hadn't started yet when you asked 😅

[lilac beacon]

Yes I can see it now. All the daily challenges have reset along with the community challenge. I managed to take down one grey wolf but can't fast travel due to this major issue we're having now.

[frank thicket]

Of course. We're aware that the wolf challenge happened to come up at an unfortunate time where grinding is difficult and we're working on finding a solution for the map performance issues. We may consider extending the event depending on how things progress. Thanks for hanging on meanwhile!

[lilac beacon]

I've noticed slight improvement in gameplay when you disable not the POI MAP but they the POI in general (first thing). It isn't great I mean, still laggy but if you're patient you're able to move across the maps and find your tent you wanna spawn.

[stable sigil]

This is all a joke...... How can you release a patch like this??????

[old rose]

All patches and updates come with bugs, some you can live with other ruin the game, and it’s hard to know what issue might come up. Hopefully though EW has a team prepared for bugs etc. when a new patch is released. Or how do you guys prepare for such things @frank thicket?

[stable sigil]

You can't experience such a big mistake in any other game... For example, when it counted golds as diamonds and diamonds as great ones. I'm serious, it's unbelievable.

[lilac beacon]

I understand that coding stuff isn't just a regular job but don't they do tests before releasing?

I also noticed that all my scopes were reset to default after update.

[proud nova]

And after the next price increase of DLC they will say that it is to provide players with the highest quality product XD

[stable sigil]

very likely

[vivid dagger]

several other games have released updates with glitches like this. yes, they do test before release, no they don't have a big enough pool of QA testers to catch every single bug. the QA team is probably at most 10 people. be patient, stop being indirectly rude towards the EW team and a patch will come soon. in the meanwhile just hunt like any one normally would.

[lilac beacon]

Seriously? Most ppl turn the game on after update and couldn't even get on the map? Are you seriously trying to tell me that they tested it thoroughly and not even once they had this problem?

Several other games did that too, I agree. Cyberpunk 2044 for example offered players their money back because they F up so bad that nobody wasn't even caring about being indirectly rude.

[vivid dagger]

yes, thats what i'm telling you. a 10ish man team cant catch every single glitch because its not a big enough pool of instances to gauge issues. its not impossible that a QA can miss something that isnt affecting all players in the first place. you're literally comparing apples to oranges, be patient. cyberpunk was released by a triple A gaming company with hundreds of QA testers, EW doesnt even have more than 50 people on staff let alone 50 people in the QA team. also a glitch is no reason to sit
and belittle a small team of QA testers who are doing all they can to rectify this issue. now do i think they could've done a little more? yes, maybe. do i wish to sit and make rude comments towards the team who have been communicating with the community the entire time? no

[lilac beacon]

People are so sensitive nowadays 🤣

[frank thicket]

Regardless of how you feel about this, please do not antagonize people in chat.

[vivid dagger]

hey vivi, are you guys aware that theres now an issue with reticle purchases too? i've had to buy them again, its fine after rebuying them but it didnt just reset my actively used ones, it reset all of them

[frank thicket]

Yes, we've seen the reports on this too, but every report helps

[vivid dagger]

no worries i'll put one in soon

[jagged badge]

Rule 4 .....

[rugged bronze]

hey so is there any progress on fixing the map lag? i know you get this alot but i have not seen any updates about it other then the temp fix

[near wedge]

Does the lag and the consistent crashes corrupted your save file or in trophy lodge?, I'm afraid to start playing because it crashed for me a few times (I have a backup made 4 days ago but still)

[rugged bronze]

not really, had no issues with that other then the game crashing

[near wedge]

Ok, good to know. Thank you

[frank thicket]

If you're experiencing performance issues on Xbox and would like to help us, please send your gamertag to us through #📜︴report's "Talk to a CM"

[severe ether]

Alright, thank you

[misty raft]

I am sorry to reply directly to you, but please consider extending the challenge, because us affected with this bug cannot participate on it. :( I've been collecting all rewards and I don't wanna miss one

[frank thicket]

With how many wolves have been killed so far I think we'll still make it but we will extend to make sure everyone can participate and get the rewards depending on what happens with this map bug.

[maiden dagger]

The map menu is very sluggish, but only at Hirschfelden and Layton Lake. I was on Yukon and Te Awaroa today and everything seemed to be working fine.
The game itself is running smoothly so far.

[jagged badge]

Do you have many zones discoverd on hirsch and layton? And only a few on Yukon on TE ? That are important Infos for the dev so they can fix the Bug

[maiden dagger]

All four maps are completely uncovered. Of course, I probably have more areas of need in Hirschfelden and Layton Lake, but only slightly more.
I like to set waypoints on the map, and it's just annoying when the map loads slowly and the menu bar on the left side of the map is sluggish.
When I went into the map, it always briefly displayed this symbol ⚠️ in front of the menu items (on the left side).

[fallen panther]

by the way the map trick with all markers off works fine for me except the laggy map than
but i also experienced when i change the map in SP via the ingame map
the map works totaly normal for me than with all markers ON after the change

[coarse relic]

Been playing a few maps. NE is by far the map that CTDs the most for me.

[elfin rose]

My map has lags too. I play on PS5. It has lags when I enter map. I can see map but it's very hard to move on it

[brave tapir]

This is such a big bug that EW needs to give us an ETA for the map like "We're anticipating releasing the fix tomorrow "

[frank thicket]

We understand people want an ETA and are working on it, but we won't be able to give you an ETA until we know what that is. Right now we are investigating the issue and working on a solution.

[fleet gorge]

Also not everyone has these issues. Like I have the game on Steam, PS5 and Series X and I have had no crashes nor laggy menus at all, so it seems it might be a bit harder to fix as some of don't even have issues.

[mellow jacinth]

How close are we getting to a permanent fix?
I noticed in a random multiplayer game if the person has little to no zones found it’s fast like it was,
Maybe try that approach. I know the more knowledge needed the better. To find the root cause of the issue. 🙂

[frank thicket]

Yes that's why we have this thread ^^

We have an awesome QA team but compared to the amount of players, the team is quite small! So every crash report, complaint, and support ticket will help us a ton to figure out what's going on.

[quiet root]

If that's the case then I'll add that I'm having map issues as well, on PS4. Disabling the POI icons does help as a temporary solution.

[viscid fox]

Will it be fixed or not I just want to know idc when

[spiral valley]

There doing everything they can to fix it rn

[dark crown]

On Xbox. When looking at the map it's lagging, tried the suggested fix ; turn off poi icons off in the interface didn't help. It's only when I move the cursor to look around the map. Choosing to view the mission log/inventory/ skills and perks are not affected

[lethal seal]

I think with Xbox users, they are asking people to submit a ticket to the CMs with your gamertag so they can try and look into other things as well!

[old rose]

I have the same problem as everyone else with the map being laggy but i haven’t noticed anything else, do i need to submit a ticket anyways?

[lethal seal]

If you're on Xbox it can't hurt!
You can be detailed in the ticket description - drop your Gamertag, and explain exactly what you are experiencing.

Even if it seems silly/pointless, who knows what extra bit of info is what helps the team sort it out

[old rose]

That is very true, i’ll do it right away

[lilac beacon]

I know it's probably stupid but did anyone try reinstall the game and check if that helps? Maybe upon release some files have not been properly updated?

[spiral valley]

I honestly don’t know if it’s safe to play because I don’t want my game corrupted and lose years of works and countless g1s

[lilac beacon]

Turn off POI ICONS MAP and see if that help

I know for a fact that my save file is def corrupted 😁 Many bugs with shotgun shells, bolts for crossbow, scopes. Still hoping they'll be fixed after next update but turns out we always have some other major issues every update.

[old rose]

Yeah and somethings we haven’t gotten answers for, but it’s like that with every game i’ve learned. It just comes down to with what downsides you can live with, the laggy map is pretty tame compared to the dog issues we used to have and especially the brush noise

[lilac beacon]

Dog issues are kinda annoying in multiplayer tbh but this one we're having trumps everything. It's either playing with ultra lag or play smooth but blind 😉

I'm gonna reinstall game and start new save, maybe it'll help.

[old rose]

Don’t count on it, but sure try it why not

[lilac beacon]

Little positivity bro 😁

[old rose]

Better than none

[lilac beacon]

Reinstalled and it didn't help but I noticed something else. Not on every map this lag occurs. In scale 1-5 where 1 lag is noticeable but payable to 5 where you can't really do anything, not every map is so bad . Salzwiesen, Sundarpatan, Revontuli, Mississippi, Arroyo, Te Awaroa, Parque are perfectly fine, no lag at all. New England, Silver Ridge, Cuatro Collinas lag is somewhat lvl 2. The absolute worst is Layton, Hirshfelden, Emerald, Medved, Vurongha, on those maps lag is really bad.
Don't have Askiy so can't tell how bad is it there or not.

[hot glen]

The only reserve I’m having the map lagging bad is Mississippi most of my other reserves are fine or playable. I submitted a support ticket just waiting on a permanent fix for Xbox

[bronze brook]

Does anyone know if it will be fixed this week because I really want to see if I can start my great one wolf grind soon. No rush at all.

[desert perch]

I cant click on continue and only new game im on xbox is there any way to get my progress back?

[vale siren]

My game continuously crashes, never had this problem before. PC.

[mellow jolt]

I’ve been experiencing issues with my hunting dogs where they will occasionally go from tracking to idle upon arriving at a blood trail on PlayStation.

[spiral valley]

Is it safe to play cotw with this bug I don’t want my game corrupted

[orchid musk]

There’s no risk of your game getting corrupted. Not sure why people keep thinking this 😅

[loud comet]

Game keeps crashing on startup never did this prior to this update over 1,200 hours of gameplay. Have re installed, verified integrity and many other suggested fixes. Eventually I am able to to get it after restarting pc trying a couple times then restarting if not able to get it to start. Usually this takes an hour of trying before successfully launching.

[balmy oxide]

Same issue on PC as well

[spiral valley]

Just to make sure and be safe

[vale siren]

Anyone else also having problems with multiplayer too? Probably has to do with the fact I open my map multiple times in a session, and I fast travel from tent to tent.

[low glen]

having an issue were the game crashs the second i open the ingame menu to go to lodges or the map

[orchid musk]

Gotcha. That’s understandable. Though, I will let you know that it’s fairly rare for updates like this to corrupt your game. Chances are you’ll be alright. :)

[jagged badge]

i now on a map with very few zones. i can open the map without any problem and the map works smoth

[broken wadi]

I am just gonna wait and play until the issue is fixed. I was looking forward to playing again after a long break, but this happened. 🙁 Well, I trust the team and I believe they'll figure it out as soon as they're able to.

[gloomy haven]

I dont know if it's been said already but regarding the lag on the map.... I noticed that alot of my POI are white as if I discovered them, which I have, but when I scroll over them it shows description as undiscovered. Could be causing the issue. Also I can still fast travel to outposts with this issue

[honest zinc]

The minimap is experiencing lag issues, and the need zone icons are displayed outside the map boundary because I spotted some moose there. I was able to move farther beyond the icons.

[lethal seal]

are you on PC or xbox?

[gloomy haven]

Xbox

[lethal seal]

ooh, this would be good info to send in a ticket here: (Choose Talk to a CM)

• include your gamertag
• any details you noticed (the POI thing specifically)

[spiral valley]

I’m on Xbox I noticed when on different maps the lag is different like for example vurhonga will barely move and rancho will move smoothly but with tiny bit of lag tho

[frank siren]

Opening my map on xbox lags the game while moving the cursor. After closing the map the game returns to normal. Just a bug that makes grinding more difficult. (Happenes on medved)

[gentle mauve]

I'm on Playstation and it only happens on the maps that I have feeders set up

[near wedge]

I have a suggestion, I'm not sure if it is possible, but, can you give us the option to roll back the update. So we can play with the previous patch? That was stable and we can enjoy the game without the crashes

[near wedge]

Can you pass this to the dev team? Thanks

[lethal seal]

I do not have personal contact with the dev team, but I can do this -

[lethal seal]

@frank thicket this was requested

[near wedge]

Ok, thank you ❤️

[spiral valley]

I have gotten used to the lag of the map so im not gonna let that stop me from grinding wolves it’s slow yes so I don’t want a rollback because I know that causes everyone to lose everything

[orchid musk]

Yeah I’d appreciate the sentiment but the last time we had a roll back like that, all hell broke loose

[hard kite]

Fr. Havent played in 4 days. Its insane they really dont have a solution and they are killing the game like this.

[near wedge]

Ooh. I didn't know that

[lilac beacon]

Have they fixed the issue yet, just checking?🕵🏻‍♂️

[lethal seal]

I haven't heard any such announcement, as of yet - but also it is Sunday, they may be taking a day off. Hopefully news on Monday!

[quasi geode]

Im on xbox, and everytime i go to layton the map is laggyy and glitchy and it feels slow to just play. It runs fine on every other map just not layton for somee reason

[quasi rover]

Does your Layton map have a lot of need zones and structures on it versus the other maps? I'm on Xbox but I'm not having any issues but I don't have a lot of structures nor need zones on my any of my maps, I don't ever grind or anything like that so not much on my maps, I play single player most of the time.

[brittle dagger]

hello i noticed 2 issues and i dont know if thats my pc or game issue?

1. binocular spotting aint working. It doesnt "light up" animals when i look at them, i have to look somewhere else so outline appears in the corner of my screen? Trying to check herds is pretty much impossible, since i have no idea what animal info am i looking at and where that animal is

2. i only noticed that on wolves, but AI is... not working. They either get aggressive from 300m away and walk straight into me or they are in "fleeing" state every time i try to check zone, doesnt matter what time or what direction i take, they flee from... something? even if im ~200m away, i dont think im doing anything to spook them, especially if that happened couple of times now

edit: i dont know if thats important, but all of this is happening on medved taiga map

[vivid dagger]

the binos have always been finnicky. if too many animals are close together it can be hard to mark the one you're looking for. wolves are sensitive to sound and smell in the game, 200metres is too close to be honest

[brittle dagger]

i never had those issues before tho
any idea how to fix it then? or i'll have to just live with it

[vivid dagger]

iv always had Bino issues and i always usually will hit wolves and other sensitive AI from the 300metre mark, just try being about 300m from your zone if possible.

also you should make a support ticket just in case, dont take my word as 100% because i could be wrong about your case

[brittle dagger]

yeah wolves i can 100% accept as my wrong doing, but binos? they got CRAZY, its impossible to use them as intended now, never had those spotting problems before
yeh i'll open a ticket

[hard kite]

Still no update? Tomorrow its going to be a week since the bug ruined all console players games

[orchid musk]

It’s been six days, and we just got over the weekend. I think it’s reasonable they won’t be putting out an update when they’re not in office lol

It’s also not “all console players”, the bugs are affecting only some individuals (most of my friends play without issue, but I can’t) which is why it’s taking longer, I’d imagine. The inconsistencies make it harder to pin down the cause. All we can do is be patient. :/

[lilac beacon]

The only consistency in this game is the inconsistency after every update.

[old rose]

Sadly very true

[plush flare]

Anyone know when they are fixing the map thing

[viscid fox]

Nope not yet but I would think soon

[chrome fable]

It's crazy this isn't fixed yet. All the issues that happen after updates really kill my excitement and I'm playing this game less and less

[short plover]

I also have sometimes that the outlining isn't working with the wolves. It seems it is from a particular distance, one step further and it is okay again.

[short plover]

Only console players? No, also PC gamers are affected...

[hard kite]

1 week. Do they not play test their games? Its actually insane

[honest zinc]

My COTW (PC) just crashed 💥 for the first time today; before, I only had lagging issues. 😫

Is the new mechanism of feeder in COTW bugged and causing the minimap to lag and the game to crash?

[near wedge]

It only happened to a certain percentage of players (including me) so that's why it's harder for them to identify what is the issue with the new code. They probably did not have any issues while testing so they released it, that's my guess. From what I've seen, bugs like this happened in the past as well and they fixed them, but well, for me this is a great time to take a break from the game and focus on other stuff until it is fixed and stable

Don't get me wrong, I'm frustrated too, I had a whitetail deer grind going on, but I can't risk it to constantly try to reopen the game and use the temporary fix, I don't want to corrupt my save file (I know a backup is important, I have one)

[hard kite]

It happend to a pretty large amount of players. If they have more than 10 play testers it should have accured to atleast 1 person. And even now they dont give us anything. Which just makes me think that even this week this will not be solved. We are a week behind and some people have 3 G1 wolves while grinding for us is barely possible

[near wedge]

Yes, I know, some people say, the bug only happens on maps with a lot of need zone icons discovered, so probably the new feature tries to update the map constantly and since there are hundreds of zones the game cannot keep up and crashes (on my laptop, I have the game on the lowest settings and I have a 2017 one, so the gpu is old, I know, gaming laptops are not a a good fit for heavy graphics games, especially old ones, but from what I've seen, even people with new PC's have encountered the issue, it depends on the stress it puts on the GPU I guess)

[hard kite]

Yes. And I suppose it is because the feeders basicly create a new zone. But than again why not refund the DLC to anyone who bought it and take it out of the game until they find out a way to fix it. Why make the game unplayable for a large amount of player for something 5 people uses

[pale cape]

I'm thinking they had to put a menu interface into the map view for restocking the feeders, and that tweaked it

[gusty bluff]

Game Crashes like 30 seconds after joining into a map. I play on pc Epic Games. What should i do? Also the game crashes almost every time when joining into a multiplayer lodge

[pale cape]

Hmm, did you turn off the POI ICONS MAP from the Settings in Main Menu before entering the map?

[vivid dagger]

it definitely IS a small team, 50 employees only max 10 of those are QA testers. this is literally what they've always done because they have a small team, they cant replicate every single glitch. its a case by case issue and not everyones affected so its very VERY possible they missed it. the team are working on it, be patient

maybe take the opportunity to go outside instead of depending on this game for entertainment. theres real animals out there, if you have to hunt/photostalk regularly in game, why not just take a break by doing it for real for once and you can come back when they actually have a fix

[near wedge]

I don't even have the feeder pack, I play non dlc, and I still have the crashes

[orchid musk]

Ooh yes actually, I can test this! Hold on.

[torn finch]

I have a lvl 30 save that I've been playing on while waiting for an update. Revontuli Coast, which I have played a lot on that save also has a super laggy map but other unexplored maps, like Askiy, Yukon and Layton, worked just fine for me

[tidal elk]

bugs can often only arise with significant server traffic and use, so many bugs do not appear until thousands of users are actively using the new patch. it's also possible for something to break after or during rollout

People aren't clairvoyant and coding means bugs are often very hard to spot

[pale cape]

The feeder-restocking menu interface was built into the map view for the update, so it wouldn't matter if you have the DLC

[vivid dagger]

i new gamed before downloading the update, have absolutely no issues as far as i can tell, granted i didnt new game in preparation just by coincidence

[tidal elk]

The fact it isn't consistent between users shows it may well be a driver compatibility issue that they hadnt foreseen because testers may have roughly equal rigs

that's another thing to consider as well, stronger computers as well as overall roughly equal system power across testers reduces the proper sample of what does and does not work with the patch system-wise

[orchid musk]

PS4: Absolutely zero issues with the map/crashing on a new account. The moment I start discovering zones, the lag starts to become noticeable

[near wedge]

Ooh, I understand

[normal dune]

I’m on Xbox
I’m pretty sure it happened randomly and I can’t equip any weapon or item so I have to restart the game to get it to unfreeze

[near wedge]

I see your point, this mindset worked for Concerned Ape who developed Stardew Valley, he didn't release an update until it was tested fully with no bugs, even tho bugs did appear, he solved them. But his case is rare because he developed the game on his own, with no team and took years (even now, an update is released in like 1-2 years).
Going back to COTW, drivers and powerful PC's too have an important factor on the crash rate (Happy Honse-oween pointed that out above).

[misty raft]

My PC is a new (assembled last year) and very powerful full gaming rig and still get this problem. 8T

[near wedge]

I'm trying to figure out myself too what causes this, is like a Russian roulette at this point :))

[misty raft]

A shame, I want to play :(

I'm considering uninstalling it and downgrading it to the previous version so I can at least play again.

[pale cape]

Floaters Stop if you go into Map View: First I've seen this, got a floater from 300m, at 250m I went into the Map, came out after a couple minutes, and the wolf was still at 250m but was floating again. Tested it at 100m for 3 minutes – Floaters Stop while you're in Map View

[jovial gorge]

I'm also experiencing crashes on the menu/map screen on certain maps. When I try to open it on certain maps it just crashes to desktop. Please fix this!!!

[faint lotus]

still no patch? it's been over week. I hoped that patch would be coming out on last weekend but no patch over week

[limpid shore]

When is this issue going to be resolved or fixed for console players just asking

[hard kite]

Same dude. Makes it much more anoying

[terse wadi]

it does this with wolves and brown bears and capers on medved for me wih the spotting

usually when im far away ~300+ metres or when they are partially obscured

[terse wadi]

yeah, this
i have seen people with small amounts of need zones getting the bug and mine onlyhappens on maps that have a large number

[gusty bluff]

Ive tried that, but its still the same

[honest zinc]

An 👉 IMPORTANT NOTE 📝 for the developers about another bug 🐞 related to the need zone icons 🟡🟢🔵: when I hunt the last animal of a species in a zone, the name in the legend (at the bottom right of the minimap) often doesn’t disappear unless I leave the session (not quitting the game) and rejoin it to refresh. Otherwise, I have to revisit the same area where I took down the last animal to check if it has respawned, which is frustrating and a waste of time since it’s not going to respawn anyway.

[vale siren]

Yay, so glad there is a hotfix coming! Multiplayer was legit unplayable, and even single player sometimes too, and only turning off the POI icons fixed the issue

[lilac beacon]

I'm kinda surprised that they didn't decide to release the fix on Halloween 🎃 If it turns out it won't fix it then it was trick not a treat 😁

[frank thicket]

Having a fix before Halloween means you can spend Halloween wolf-hunting

[spiral valley]

I appreciate y’all fixing this I know y’all put a lot of work into the game this is truly a great development team y’all have 💛

[short plover]

Very nice EW.
But...will this patch also repair the moose and wolves who aren't coming in to drink? I am at Medved for a wolf grind but my groups are hard to find drinking. Some wolve groups (about 3) come only in from 19.30h so there is only half a hour to grind them. All the others aren't drinking at all. Also the Moose are very late, also the last half hour (also Medved). It is very, very frustrating. We will see.

[lilac beacon]

I'm good thanks. Being a father is full time job and much more rewarding than hunting pixel wolfs 😉

[frank thicket]

This only fixes the performance issues which were a top priority to fix as fast as we could.

Any other issues you have you should continue to report through the other places in the support forum but this thread is focused specifically on performance issues that came up after 8.3.

[mystic kayak]

I'm on the PS4 I don't have an issue with the map I have an issue playing it..this is the 2nd update that's messed my game up..the June one erased all my progress and well this one I can't play it's not the map it's the actual game play

[lilac beacon]

Report and send it to devs. They'll fix it eventually.

[gentle mauve]

Since we're getting a patch this close to the new map announcement, can we get a small in game clue too like the old days?

[rugged bronze]

what time tomorrow will the hot fix update release?

[frank thicket]

Probably around 11 CET

[misty raft]

Oh amazing!!! I'm SO HAPPY!!!

[cosmic gust]

Is it safe to install the patch now? Does the hotfix work? Any experiences here?

[peak mantle]

This is my experience.

[cosmic gust]

Bruh

[peak mantle]

It keeps happening to me with the reserve map where I disconnected before the feeder patch.

[cosmic gust]

I havent installed that patch at all but would like to get access to the new features, but this doesnt look like its worth the trouble that comes with it

[peak mantle]

It's absurd, I haven't tried disabling the map icons, because that's not the solution. The real solution is to be able to access the content without having to disable game features.

[orchid musk]

There’s going to be a patch in a few hours

Edit: My apologies, it already came out. Did you download it?

[peak mantle]

Another patch?

[orchid musk]

No, see my edit lol sorry. I thought I’d seen the post about it somewhere. Patch already came out.

To clarify- you downloaded the patch and this is occurring? 8.3.1?

[pale cape]

Hot Fix that came out this morning fixed the map lag - running Dolphin Smooth

[orchid musk]

Oh I’m so excited to test it out. Was waiting myself to see what everyone else said. Downloading now.

[peak mantle]

Yes, I downloaded it. I am reporting this after updating the game. I uninstalled and reinstalled it, in case there were any corrupted files. Everything is fine in the other saves. But in the save where I disconnected before the feeding trough DLC, I still have the same issue.

[cosmic gust]

What platform are you on?

[pale cape]

Xbox

[cosmic gust]

Ok, i pobably wait untill some PS players share their experience

[peak mantle]

My platform is Steam. It would be interesting to hear the opinion of someone else who tries it on the same platform.

[orchid musk]

I’m on PS, downloading the patch now. Good news for xbox should be promising news for consoles. Hoping, at least lol will update back when I’ve tested it.

[cosmic gust]

Thanks 👍

[chrome fable]

Any updates? It's still not working for xbox

I can't see a patch to download yet

[lethal seal]

I don't have a console - but have you tried fully shutting it down and turning it back on to see if it catches up? It's now 2pm, so about 3 hours since the hotfix patch

[honest zinc]

On PC (Steam), I haven’t experienced any lag when dragging the minimap (Medved-Taiga) with need zone icons. When zooming, the resolution adjusts at the usual speed. It seems the issue is fixed. Thanks! 👍🏻

[peak mantle]

Do you remember if it's the reserve where you disconnected before patch 8.3?

[honest zinc]

Yes, the same reserve before the issue, and I did not disconnect.

[peak mantle]

Ok thx

[orchid musk]

PS4 works! There’s still a tiny split second of lag when you scroll over a bunch of equipment (like tents, tripods) on some heavy maps but for the most part it’s fixed!! 🥹

[cosmic gust]

Thanks for the Info!

[hot glen]

Xbox One works. Slight lag on open then perfectly smooth

[limpid shore]

Ps4 is working on my ps5 perfectly smooth

[misty raft]

Working perfectly for me and even better than before! I have lots of zones and it was slow before but not unplayable, but now it's smooth smooth 👌

[amber kite]

THE HOTFIX FIXED EVERYTHING

[bronze brook]

How do you make it faster

[coarse relic]

Just tested hotfix. Got to play about an hour before CTD. Crash report sent. Steam.

[short plover]

Thanks EW, the game is running smooth as it was before the 8.3 update! Playing on PC/Steam.

[orchid musk]

Curious, have you contacted both EW/Avalanche studios directly (as in making a support ticket) here >> https://support.thehunter.com/hc/en-us/requests/new , as well as a ticket to steam support? This sounds like a driver issue or something else at this point

[hot glen]

the update or hot fix from the other day

[bronze brook]

My game is still a little slow but slow is there anyway to speed it up?

[lethal seal]

Slow as in lagging or slow as in your character movement

[zenith moth]

The feeders cause the game to almost constantly save to harddisk....

[spring geyser]

On PS4 sometimes its impossible to set waypoints and fast travel on the map after the update

[orchid musk]

Could you explain this a bit more? How is it “impossible”? What’s happening?

Is it lag that’s making it impossible? Or does the little menu not appear to give you the options (place waypoint, cancel, etc) when you click the map?

[elfin void]

https://discord.com/channels/393040947006406657/1433448152224235561

I'm having the same problem.

[orchid musk]

Oh yea. Been an issue for a few months now. I was told by someone who plays on PC that it’s been on that platform for years. At least it’s preventable.

[unreal pollen]

Nepal final mission still crashing at the end and making me do it again this is really driving me nuts

[warm marsh]

playing on steam. every time i try to enter Rancho del Arroyo the game crash. All other maps work fine. I repaired the installation but same result. I also tried to just delete the map data but didnt help too. Starting a new game and tried to enter Rancho game also react with a crash

[lilac beacon]

This game has something inherently wrong in it's coding. Played over 1000+ hours and got bored so I started brand new save hoping it'll resolve some issues and after 10min of playing I have new and old issues altogether.
Ammunition for Malmer 7mm disappear in reloading animation.
Valgarda won't reload at all😮
I have manual chamber settings on and it only does this but won't reload new rounds. You have to ADS and press reload in the middle of animation to actually perform reload. Funny enough if I press ADS and hold I can pull bolt infinitely but can't reload.
FoxPro caller is still bugged. Voices stay in the device even if you swap map where particularly animal doesn't occur the call voice still playing. Dogs in multiplayer still bugged, you hear them walking next to you but they stay in one place. List is endless. I could go on like this all day and hardly anything is getting fixed.
Creating new save didn't reset my trophy logdes though, not sure if it's bug or not but I still have all my trophies I put there in my old game save.

[orchid musk]

Please make a ticket or two here: https://support.thehunter.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

-with a list of bugs and details about what caused them/what your situation is. It might be very much worth it to note you messed with your save files by creating another account, if you’re on pc, as this is known to cause issues even when simply “changing saves”. All of the info you share can go directly to support who will add them to the list of bugs that have been reported in game. The more people report, the faster things get solved. I’m sure your experience would be beneficial for the team to hear considering the unique situation you’re in.

[lilac beacon]

Don't think you understand.
Game gives you opportunity to start new game at any given time, there's even a disclaimer when start new game that all progresses will be lost so I did.
10min into new game and already am experiencing old (known for decades ) and new issues with gameplay.
I checked update history of this game and it hits I think record number of alleged "Various Bug Fixes". Since game version 1.30 it has been released 69 patches to improve the game and I'm not quite sure but I don't think they matter. I have uploaded many tickets in the past, sent videos even, literally wasted my time trying to make an effort and help devs fix the game but now I've lost all hope they ever will.

[orchid musk]

Gotcha. Either way, please send tickets about this so it can be seen more + devs understand it’s still a current issue. Every report helps.

[lilac beacon]

They'll fix it... in 2057

[fleet gorge]

I've been sending tickets since, like, 2022 for the same couple issues. Over and over I get told it's logged and they'll look to implement the fix in a future update. I'm still waiting on that future update lol

[terse wadi]

Yeah they uh. don't really fix small minor issues that I've noticed. there are bugs that are so simple to fix (falling through the ground in medved, I imagine you could just put something under the terrain so that wouldnt happen, animals making mating calls instead of warning calls, sure thats easy to fix too) but they don't fix them at all

literally the only thing i want is a patch thats just for bug fixes. the code of this game is old and broken and every time they do something to it a billion new bugs pop up

[lilac beacon]

It's unnerving really, this carelessness.
Found a video the other day about the Avalanche Engine and how it evolved through time and it turns out not much has changed. The reload animation on Cuomo pistol hasn't changed since 2011, they used exactly the same animation in one of their games back then.
If you played game Generation Zero on PS you'll notice that the world look oddly like Hirshfelden map 🫩

[frank thicket]

We're really working on fixing bugs with each patch. In 8.3 you can see that on top of fixing bigger bugs, we fixed many small ones including what you mentioned about animals using the wrong calls.

Always wanna hear your feedback, I just want to make sure you also check out our patch notes with each release and see that it isn't just the DLC we are putting out.

[lilac beacon]

I checked my update history yesterday on console. Since 1.30 you've released 69 patches that say "Various Bug Fixes". How broken game can be and for how long before you get things right?

[frank thicket]

I'm not sure what you mean because we have detailed patch notes if you check our website.

[cosmic gust]

I send countless tickets over the years using their websites. Every single bug i reported is still in the game so reporting bugs to them is just a waste of time. Tickets just get closed and thats it.

[frank thicket]

I can assure you reporting bugs is not a waste of time. There were really big bugs last patch that were difficult to reproduce and fix, but we were able to prioritize fixing them because of the massive amounts of reports and big voice from the community.

[cosmic gust]

Well yes i see that you fix bugs with every Patch and i appreciate it. The game is overall in a good state. But the thing is that there are still many many minor things that shouldnt be there. Also every new patch adds new bugs. And reporting them leads to nothing as it seems. Many bugs persist since years and for example the puma display in parque has been "fixed" several times now and still dont work. Ppl get frustrated about things like this and especially ppl like me who play since release and buy all the dlc to support you. I really want this game to get bigger and better.

[vale elm]

i think its also super important to realise bugs happen for lots of reasons!!! they can only try recreate the bugs themselves and fix the causes they find for it and if another reason exists then it will still happen for that reason instead of the cause they did patch!

[lilac beacon]

That actually doesn't surprise me that you don't know what I mean.

[vale elm]

politely this is plain ignorance because she literally linked the patch notes with a hell of a lot of bug fixes. go to the link in the message you replied to and youll see a detailed list. dont be rude.

[lilac beacon]

Dude I've been to the website multiple times and read everything. Console updates look different it seems than it is on PC and it seems she doesn't know that. Now she does.

[vale elm]

update logs on consoles tend to say just this. if it were on the steam page i imagine it says the exact same thing. this is not pc only patch notes it is the patch notes for the update across platforms. if you look at any game on whatever youre on it will most likely give a short tiny brief ‘various bugs fixed’ with maybe a specific mention if there was a prolific issue going around.

the patch notes vivi sent are for the 8.3 patch across ALL platforms. it would seem you didnt know, but now you do!

[lilac beacon]

You must be new here 🤣

[vale elm]

i am relatively new, i just wanted to help you out and make sure you know where to find the bug fixes which you have been looking for! just being kind n helping out

[orchid musk]

…I’m certainly not new here, but they’re 100% right. Update history on console usually looks like that for most games. That’s how it is. The full, detailed patch notes are usually posted on a games website, like Vivi linked. Every time a release happens, the list is posted a couple days prior.

Y’all are feel free to keep complaining and doing nothing to solve the issue, but in doing that, you are part of the problem.

[lilac beacon]

Being kind by telling me off that I'm rude, ignorant and don't know any better than you, nice approach 🤣

I've read the latest patch note and it strikes me that they mostly use word "some" in description what they actually fixed. Some here some there and we don't know most of it. There's no detailed specification.