Area missing. Entirely.
Dragoncat99
United States Join Date: 2017-09-22 Member: 233188Members
United States Join Date: 2017-09-22 Member: 233188Members
I came across something pretty crazy and game-breaking in version 53518.
Here's a video I made showing it and giving some possible explanations (Sorry about the poor quality and low volume):
In case you didn't catch it or would simply rather to see it laid out, here's the deal:
A huge chunk of the Quarantine Enforcement Platform was missing, in such a way that I couldn't continue through the building without the help of yet another glitch. I've had a similar issue before, but I've always been able to fix it by saving, exiting to the main menu, and reloading the map. However, no matter what I do, it won't seem to fix itself this time. I've tried:
Leaving the area and coming back,
Exiting to the Main Menu and reloading,
Restarting the game,
& restarting my computer.
I'm not sure what else to do beyond screwing around with the save files themselves, and I didn't want to try that if I had no clue what I was doing.
I haven't done anything in this save file that I haven't done a million times before, so I have no clue what caused this. If it would help, I could try giving my save file to anyone who's interested, but beyond that I have no info to give on its possible origins aside from what I talked about in the video.
If anyone knows a way to fix this, that'd be lovely. Losing 2 hours of work isn't fun.
Here's a video I made showing it and giving some possible explanations (Sorry about the poor quality and low volume):
In case you didn't catch it or would simply rather to see it laid out, here's the deal:
A huge chunk of the Quarantine Enforcement Platform was missing, in such a way that I couldn't continue through the building without the help of yet another glitch. I've had a similar issue before, but I've always been able to fix it by saving, exiting to the main menu, and reloading the map. However, no matter what I do, it won't seem to fix itself this time. I've tried:
Leaving the area and coming back,
Exiting to the Main Menu and reloading,
Restarting the game,
& restarting my computer.
I'm not sure what else to do beyond screwing around with the save files themselves, and I didn't want to try that if I had no clue what I was doing.
I haven't done anything in this save file that I haven't done a million times before, so I have no clue what caused this. If it would help, I could try giving my save file to anyone who's interested, but beyond that I have no info to give on its possible origins aside from what I talked about in the video.
If anyone knows a way to fix this, that'd be lovely. Losing 2 hours of work isn't fun.
Comments
First though, silly but important question, have you tried going to another location then coming back to the QEP? E.g.: If you use "goto base1" then use "goto gun", does that fix it?
Might just be an issue that can be fixed if you force the cells to despawn then reload in game.
Otherwise you should try backing up your save file, then just clearing out the cache. As a personal quick fix. And you can find steps to do that, here.
https://pastebin.com/LCZKA9hh
As for leaving the area, I did, but I didn't use commands to do so. Do you think that using "goto base 1" would work even if manually traveling back to my base didn't?
As for your final two suggestions, I haven't tried clearing the cache yet (I'll go ahead and try that now. I already have everything backed up), and I don't know how to force the cells to despawn.
Well it depends on how far your base is from the QEP. I more said "base1" because that's at least 1000km away from the QEP, so it should be far enough. The goto command is just quick teleport.
I don't know exactly when it does it, but the game will naturally despawn areas that you're not in, so it doesn't eat up system resources. (Think Minecraft and chunks) So if your base is far enough, that you can't see the island, using "goto base1" won't really change anything if you already went to your base and back.
Definitely try resetting your cache, in all honestly that should clear it right up.
...I have about six in-game.
I checked the screenshot images for both, and neither are the one I'm looking for. In fact, if I'm recognizing the picture right, both are old saves I haven't used in forever. I think one's even incompatible with the current build. Both were apparently last edited on Sept 4 (My current save wasn't even made back then), and both folders seem to be incomplete, missing the folders the instructions say to delete.
I have no clue where my game is saving my data if it's not saving it to the SavedGames folder. Maybe it's saving the data on Steam's servers? I have no clue. Maybe I should try loading Subnautica in offline mode to see if my games are still there.
Either way it doesn't really look like I'll be doing much cache emptying.
Have you tried using Steam's Properties > Local Files > Browse Local Files... ?
If you changed where Steam keeps its game library, then you should check there. The C:\ is just for default Steam users who are fine with their games being on their main drive.
Like for me, my Steam library is on an external drive S:\Games\SteamLibrary. Since my main drive is freakin tiny after my last one died.
*Sigh* I have no clue.
(P.S. My base is directly below my lifepod, so it's definitely far enough away.)
Maybe on install, Subnautica defaulted to the old install directory? Because I know you can't get rid of the default C:\ Steam directory since that's where it runs.
Maybe check if there's any extra directories that snuck on under Steam > Settings > Downloads > Steam Library Folders ?
And yeah, then it's definitely far enough to have not made a difference if you teleported.
But if they're different well, at least you now know where they are. But here's to hoping that clearing the cache fixes your problem!
I still have no clue what the deal was with the files (I double-checked. I'm pretty positive they're indeed in the exact same place), or the glitch in the first place, but all's well that ends well.
Thanks so much! You were a great help!
And no problem, it's the point of the forums right? Haha, have fun!
You might have just fallen off the edge of The Void.