Missing NPC's; Allied and Enemy

Shineko

It has gotten progressively worse to the point to where the NPC's, both enemy and friendly, will not load no matter how long I wait unless I use /reloadui this goes for all npc's anywhere in Stonefalls

As soon as I use /reloadui, within a matter of seconds every NPC loads. I tried relogging but it didn't solve the problem. The issue is that I 'have' to use /reloadui or I'll be constantly attacked by invisible enemies I cannot see or will be unable to use vendors, turn in or accept quests.

NPC walking collision is still there but I cannot physically attack the enemies or interact with NPC's.

My settings can play the game on the highest but I'm more content with them where they are at, these are my settings [and I keep lowering them to try and fix the problem]

Texture Quality [Medium]
SubSampling Quality [Was High, Now Medium; No difference in problem]
Shadow Quality [Medium]
Water Reflection [Off]
Particle Density [Medium]
View Distance [45, never changed since start of 5 Day Pre]
Ambient Occlusion [Off]
Bloom [Was On, Now Off, No difference]
Depth of Field [Was Off, Now On, no difference]
Distortion [Off]
Sunlight Rays [Off]
Grass [On]

Chris_ZPR

I can verify this.

I've bin playing since the start of the 5 day early access (and 2 beta tests previous) and the error doesn't seem to have budged at all. Enemies and even the environment just doesn't seem to render, sometimes I can just walk through buildings and other solid things (bridges, walls) that haven't loaded properly and other times I'll walk in and get stuck. (The walls load while I'm inside, have to use /stuck to fix it).

I can still see the enemies red marker on my compass I just cant see or interact with them in any way (Cant attack, talk or anything) and what makes it all worse is that they can still kill me while i'm sitting defenceless. Its caused my level 9 to be killed by level 4s a few times now.

My settings are very similar to the person above.

robo26

I can confirm this. I have had this happen both with NPC's and Mobs. Using /reloadui works to display the npc, but it isn't practical for mobs especially if you are being attacked.

revenant627ub17_ESO

I can verify this too, and my settings are maxed. the only thing keeping me alive is my summoned clannfear, and it keeps disappearing.

loppy88

Same here. Didn't happen with other Characters, only my nightblade.
Edit: Now it's happening with all my chars.

loppy88

Can we really get a fix or an answer for this? It's really getting frustrating... I just keep dying to invisible enemies. Can't finish quests, can't even defend myself.

DamienMovado

Same here. It is getting very frustrating. I'm trying to remain patient as I understand it's a new game that JUST launched, but it's killing me. I've sent a few bug reports and I'm really hoping to hear something soon about it or see it fixed in a new patch soon.

loppy88

Seems it's fixed.

Keenna91

My Partner is having the same problem, the first time he repaired in the launcher, and it seemed to fix it for about a day.. Recently he had it happen again, he repaired the files again and it worked for about an hour, and now has just finished repairing it for the third time..
He is completely dissatisfied with this, and i would like to fix it without having to see if re-downloading the whole thing will work.
The problems he is having is;
-Disappearing NPC's
-Disappearing PC's (or Playing Characters)
-Not able to interact with anything (Pressing "E")
-Disappearing Monsters
-Constantly (Every 10-15seconds or less) has to /reloadui
He is also having problems with falling through the world, but i'm not entirely sure its related at all.

tacham

Same problem here, have a great PC that should have no problem running the game on high. Constantly have to wait long periods of time for NPCs and mobs. Makes the game almost unplayable. ATI HD7950 is my video card.

I dumbed down my settings but that did not help at all.

DocHackenSlash

Having the EXACT same problem. Relogging helps for about a minute before the problem returns and i have to do it again. It's making the game nearly unplayable.

Fenbrae

Did you guys try to update your graphics drivers?
I had the same problem, but updating my driver to the most recent version seems to have fixed it.

Arunei

Even though it pains me to say this, I'm glad this isn't just happening to me.

I have these EXACT issues ALL the darn time. Constantly getting killed by low-level mobs because I can't see them (though I can see the red blips on the compass so I know they're there); I CAN hit them with things like melee skills, but since I can't see the enemies to know how far away they are, I still usually can't land any blows.

Waiting for NPCs to fizzle into view is a huge pain, too. Having to wait 3-5 minutes is crazy, yet it's either that or /reloadui every 30 seconds.

The world not rendering is another hassle. It's bad enough when you come upon an empty expanse and can't tell where the heck to go (since the environment tends to be there, just not visible, so you're constantly running into invisible obstacles). It's even worse then the environment HASN'T rendered at all...until you're running by and get stuck as that building or boulder or those stairs finally phase in around you, resulting in needing to /stuck yourself to get free. And this regardless of how high or low you have the depth of field set.

I can deal with currently only being able to run 15 fps on average. But dying everywhere because the environment is loading around me or invisible mobs are piling me is making it harder to do stuff. And I'm fairly certain that while my low fps might be partly to blame for this whole issue, from the others sharing it I'm confident it's a small contribution to the overall cause.

Also all my drivers are up-to-date.

hawke21

Also having these issues. Any word yet on a fix?

Redwaller66

DocHackenSlash wrote: »

Having the EXACT same problem. Relogging helps for about a minute before the problem returns and i have to do it again. It's making the game nearly unplayable.

This^.

rozzkill

I have been playing since tuesday and I have experiences many bugs along the way. This, however, is gamebreaking in a way that it needs fixing asap. The game is completely unplayable for me atm.
I cannot see quest npcs, so I cannot progress, I cannot see mobs, so I keep dieing. This is getting tedious... So many bugs.

hawke21

Same thing last night. Played for a bit then npc's, enemies, players start vanishing. logging out/in, /reloadui , nothing works. Please can we get a response from zen about this?

DocHackenSlash

As of right now, i'm paying for a game that I can't play because of a glitch, without even getting a response from the devs. Bravo.

officer_dumpling

This issue is still happening. Just happened to my character in Khenarthi Roost, after I completed all the Mistral quests. Couldn't see any friendly NPCs in Mistral (merchants, bank, everyone). Couldn't see enemy NPCs while exploring. NPCs are talking / attacking me, but I can't see them. Tried relogging, to no avail.

robo26

officer_dumpling wrote: »

This issue is still happening. Just happened to my character in Khenarthi Roost, after I completed all the Mistral quests. Couldn't see any friendly NPCs in Mistral (merchants, bank, everyone). Couldn't see enemy NPCs while exploring. NPCs are talking / attacking me, but I can't see them. Tried relogging, to no avail.

It does seem to be an issue with the phasing, I know it is a pain, but another relog or two will sort it. That works for me anyway

Saafvoski

Happens to me too, now. It didn't for a while though. Everyone of you sending bug reports? I hope ZOS won't just blame it on our PC's..

ct12yyyeb17_ESO

Same problem on 2 pc`s.
NVIDIA on both.
Reloadui load the mobs and npc in an area around but if i move out of that i can`t se even my pet`s

shadowdragon5thb14_ESO

Started this problem last night. no idea whats going on. I'm about to stab some random skeever.

Akuydab14_ESO

Yea, been playing fine for hours and hours then all the sudden... friendly NPC's, player characters, all just stop loading. Horses running around without riders, but zone chat and crafting, all working fine. Relog\Reloadui to make stuff come back, but it seems to happen again as soon as I load in\out of somewhere. Not going to go quest like this as enemy npc's are prolly gonna rail me invisibly.

rayvn03b14_ESO

This was happening to me the last two betas I was in. Nice to see that they still haven't fixed it /sarcasm