Thread: Warning : Teleporting bots are back!

Looks like something else. Excuuuuuuuuse me :-)

Lizardo wrote: »

Seroczynski wrote: »

Thread: Warning : Teleporting bots are back!

Its not the same as the bots. The nodes aren't disappearing. They are just not appearing at all. Only keen eye shows that they exist.
With the bots the node vanishes after you click it. With this bug you just can't click it because there is nothing to click.
The node will be there if you relog.

Jumped to a conclusion a little bit too quick. Edited my initial reply.

This bug started for me about a week ago. It is getting worse and worse. Tonight I logged, used a waypoint in Greenshade and the very first glowing item, either a flower or cotton wasn't there. Great now I log into to log right back out in order to gather materials. This does not just effect my material gathering but also quest objects. It is highly annoying to log out every few minutes in order complete quests or gather mats.

I received a phone call and email support on this matter. No explanation of why it happens but I followed the steps given and played yesterday with no issues. Here is they information I was given that helped me.

Please follow the steps that we have provided below to help solve the issue:

1.Navigate to your "My Documents" or "Documents" folder in the start menu.


2.Delete the folder named "Elder Scrolls Online". This is a settings folder. It will repopulate when the game launches again.


3.Navigate to the "C://" drive on your computer from "My Computer" or "Computer". - Open "Program Files (x86)" - Open "Zenimax Online" - Open "Launcher" - Delete the "Program Data" folder.


4.Close out of all screens and return back to your desktop.


(These next steps are known as "Clean-booting" your computer and will disable all programs and services that start with your computer that are not the basic Microsoft services. During these steps, please pay special attention to the note that will inform you on how to reverse these changes, if you so choose to. You do not need to reverse these changes and no program on your computer is deleted. They simply do not start, when your computer starts; you will need to manually start them.)

1.Hold the Windows Key and press the letter "R"


2.Type in "MsConfig" into the Run box that opens and press enter.


3.Press the radial button next to "Selective Start-up"(Take note of where it says "Normal Start Up". If you press this and then "Apply" and "ok", then restart your computer, all changes made in this tool during these steps will be reversed.)


4.Uncheck the "Load Start-Up Items" checkbox.


5.Press on the "Services" tab located at the top of the box.


6.Check the "Hide All Microsoft Services" checkbox.


7.Press the "Disable All" button.


8.Press Apply and Ok and you will be prompted to restart your computer.


9.Please restart your computer.


10.Launch your game and run the "Repair" from the launcher's game option, which are located in between the news title and the news articles.




Thank you for your patience while we assist you in resolving this issue . Please let us know if you should require any further assistance.

In another email Zenimax had me run it as run administrator. Forgot to add that part earlier.
Part of the steps they had me do, removed the addons I was using. After repair, I played for a few hours with no issues and then added back skyshard addon, Played again, still no issues and I then added an alchemy addon. I still did not have any invisible object issues. These are the only two addons I plan on playing with, now. I am not saying that it was the other addons I had causing the issues, but if you do the steps that customer support gives and it fixes, watch what and any addons you install, in case you start getting the issue again. I will update if I start having issues again. The addons I had when I was having the invisible object bugs were: Skyshards-0.3.1; NSimpleCraftingtooltip; Alchemist_008; BatmanStoreFilter; ResearchAssistant-0.4.3b

I had this happen for about a week. Had to relog constantly to get my nodes to show up.

I had taken Keen Eye for clothing and herbs, and my husband had Keen Eye for ore and wood. Whenever the "shiny effect" would appear for me without an actual node he could see my cloth/herb nodes, and vise versa for his ore/wood. It stopped happening about a week ago and we have no clue what fixed it.

We still have issues with the shiny effect not happening at all when we can clearly see our nodes, only to pick it and disappear without loot. But others have said that is caused by "invisible bots". Still not sure how true that may be.

There's two sort of 'invisi-bots' as I saw first-hand last night.

The first, the most common is in fact inivisible bots, when they harvest a node you hear the sound effects and in places like Bleakrock you see foot activity in the snow and if you're quick you can target them to expose the nameplate.

The second kind is caused by phasing, I'd read others say it but I saw it myself last night. There was a rune node some distance away and I aw a guy running towards it .. he vanished right where I know a phase boundary to be and a few seconds later the node vanished, it was undoubtedly he who harvested it.

There was no sound or visual indication of his presence, which there would be with an invisi-bot. Phase boundaries are more common than one would think and I'm now getting to accept that this 'botting' as actually just an unfortunate artifact of a game mechanic.

Every time I've had the issues OP talks about, a simple re-log has made the objects render properly. The same thing with books that appear to be under a table. They just aren't rendering correctly and a re-log fixes it.

I've started noticing quest objectives not appearing as well but I've only started experiencing them after yesterday's patch. I am currently leveling through Auridon myself so I wonder if this is specific to Aldmeri Dominion zones. I've never seen this happen with the other two alliances when I finished their first non-starter-island zones.

Really annoying bug as it happened with several quests near the northern part of the island. Re-logging did fix the issue but I don't think this is a good solution. If you have to leave it to your customers to fix stuff for you then the product is just bad.

Sorry, I don't remember the quest names themselves. But it looks like the ones I remember that broke for me you already have listed.

I've been having this problem also and it's not just restricted to Auridon, it seems to be able to happen anywhere. A relog does work round the problem but it can return anytime so it's not feasible to keep doing this. Very frustrating!

Just had another quest with a missing quest objective. This one was in Grahtwood where you're doing a quest for Azura to rescue bones from Oblivion. Did it with 3 other un-grouped people and it only glitched out for two of us. It didn't disappear either as I was the first one to the objective, instead the quest marker was slightly sunk into the ground. The last person did not have a problem though and was able to interact with the objective right away.

Again, relogging did fix the issue, the objective was on the altar as it should be but perhaps slightly off center as part of it was hanging on air. And it does seem to be related to how phasing works.

I've seen this problem in multiple zones, it's obviously some sort of phasing bug, but it's not limited to harvest nodes, I've seen it happen to quest items as well, either not spawning at all or spawning in the wrong place, it's terribly annoying to have to re-log every half hour or so because of it.
I suspect it's a much more widespread issue but less people report it because without a gatherer eye trait it's much harder to notice and is probably dismissed a quest bug.

Yes this is still occurring regularly.

Might just be an Auridon issue. in the Vet 1 zone and this is the first time I've seen this happen. Oddly enough It only seems to happen in the northern half of the map.