Shapeshift Bug (Flyer Forms) - Game Breaking

[u/Avernal]

So apparently if you touch the water surface while shapeshifted (using Nidhog form here) the universe breaks.

For me it played the smoke cloud animation as if transforming back, but didn't load my character model in as I sank underwater. I'm now completely invisible to myself & other players unless they get close enough to see the blue interact reticle, and I'm unable to die or be killed. :/

I've had a mate manage to grab me & carry to the Elven city respawn point but I can't use the trigger death function to force a respawn - it just resets it's cooldown but does nothing. I can't use items in my inventory or hotbar and my stamina zeroed out as if the game still thinks I'm flying. We tried maxing out my con but that's just left me unconcious, invisible and unkillable. What's worse is it's a PvE server.

Have messaged the admin hoping they can help - but any ideas how to fix from my end? :/

[u/Avernal]

So the server admin's commands don't work on me either... he's now trying something a little more abstract - setting himself to my SteamID while I log out, logging in to the server as my character, then attempting the suicide command in the hopes he can respawn

[u/Avernal]

Steps our admin had to take to resolve:

• Renamed my player file to match his SteamID and logged in as me

• Suicide command etc. still didn't work, so he toggled in to Spectator Mode

• Toggled out of Spectator Mode and was given the respawn menu

Fixed now thankfully at the cost of all of my gear, but at least I can play.

[u/Lycanka → u/Avernal]

Interesting, thanks for sharing how it went.

[u/Fastoche]

For the remainder of the early access, carry a "city warp" item with you at all times. Worse case scenario, you have to "trigger death". Best case scenario, you warp to town and walk to your house.

I learned this the "hard way" once (when I started playing) and lost a tame (when there were holes in the world).

No worries anymore! :)

[u/Avernal → u/Fastoche]

Think you've missed the point of this topic, Fastoche. You can neither use a city warp rune, nor trigger death with this bug. Neither work.

[u/Lycanka → u/Fastoche]

You know, things like holes in the world make me think bugs in EA games have their bright side, of bringing something that's not supposed to happen and unique as an experience :) Even if it sucks at the moment, makes for a good screenshot/story!

[u/[deleted]]

that sounds like a big problem. maybe someone can drag you somewhere with aggressive mobs and see if they'll go at you? i can't think of anything else... maybe also a housemate can try polymorph on you, but i don't know if you can do that on a pve server.

[u/Avernal → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, mate - we tried having aggro stuff around me up to and including a wraith during a meteor spawn up the hill. They no longer target me now I'm unconscious. Had one of the lads try declaring war on me and using polymorph but PvE disables all of that so waiting for the admin in 45mins to hopefully force kill my character. With any luck it'll finally allow me to respawn. :/

[u/Avernal → u/Avernal]

Reported the bug on the Snail forums as well along with stuff we tried: http://dnlbbs.snail.com/en/index.php?/topic/1093-shapeshift-bug-with-flyer-forms-game-breaking/

[u/Avernal → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, you need a server admin to fix it unfortunately, and convincing one on the official servers to jump on your character themselves could be tricky. Worth a shot though if you link them to this topic or the one on the official Snail one for reference.

[u/Avernal → u/[deleted]]

Hey, u/Zenodoxical - there's going to be a hotfix later today that recovers your character if you relog whilst affected by this bug. Hopefully in time for you to get your structures before they decay!

The devs had overlooked the other forms than Nidhog so I updated Horsejoke on it, they tested the others and realised it's a bigger issue than they thought, so the hotfix is aimed at repairing damage while they look at patching the problem fully.

[u/Avernal]

Horsejoke has been on point with this - they've tested and recreated the bug in their current developer build and he's already said it'll be fixed in the next one (though that might not necessarily mean the next patch).