Reefback barnacles wrong place and invisible?

narfblat

Playing stable mode, and haven't played in a while. I created a new game after Coffee update.

Reefback barnacles don't show on its back, and the "break barnacle" prompt only shows up when I am well above the Reefback. Breaking the barnacles does release materials, but it's hard to know when it happens. I originally thought it wasn't breaking at all, until I found a loose copper on the ground that I hadn't put there. (I have later found an item right after breaking barnacle)

ant_fio

Yep. I haven't actually got a clue what a reefback barnacle looks like, but I can see the prompt to break them when I mouse over the reefback. It's hard to tell where the hitbox is, since they're invisible to me. Typically when I do TRY to break the barnacle, I can't see what it drops. I'm only assuming it falls through the reefback, but admittedly I wasn't looking very hard.

0x6A7232

ant_fio wrote: »

Yep. I haven't actually got a clue what a reefback barnacle looks like, but I can see the prompt to break them when I mouse over the reefback. It's hard to tell where the hitbox is, since they're invisible to me. Typically when I do TRY to break the barnacle, I can't see what it drops. I'm only assuming it falls through the reefback, but admittedly I wasn't looking very hard.

http://subnautica.wikia.com/wiki/Blue_Barnacle_Cluster

ant_fio

I will try to pay close attention the next time I try to hitch on a reefback. I think I may actually be seeing them after all and just have crazy hitboxes, because those look like something I've seen - but without the hitboxes lining up on them it just wasn't obvious to me that's what they were. I'll post a screenshot in this (edit) if I can, and they're actually invisible.

0x6A7232

IIRC the hitboxes are wonky and you have to aim above and to the right or something like that (at least, sometimes).

narfblat

After the original post, I checked the wiki for barnacle appearance. I did find a barnacle, visible, on a reefback, but still with the wonky hitbox.

ant_fio

I've come back to post what I'd intended to in the first place, which was pictures of what a reefback with wonky barnacles looks like. I think this sums it up pretty well. See the last two images for what my barnacle experience boils down to. The 4th image is what barnacles look like: they get "absorbed" by the reefback. Then my hitbox for barnacles is just utterly nonsensical.

http://imgur.com/a/xUzDI

Fathom

Maybe a orientation error, with the mesh and the hitbox geometry being differently orientated, like the x axis of the mesh pointing in another direction then the x axis of the hitbox. Then the xyz coordination and rotation adjustment for placement on the Reefback puts them in different positions.

ant_fio

Some of them do seem wildly, radially out of whack. I was going to suggest that some of the most reliably located hitboxes were those well above the reefback, but also not anywhere near the horizontal alignment of the barnacle I was "looking at", if it can be called that. I wonder a bit if the reefback's movements have any bearing on barnacle displacement.

narfblat

I was wondering the same, maybe a miscalculation in a formula that was to compensate for reefback movement.