You cannot loot this corpse

Inaya

because you are too far away? I'm standing on it! Anyone else with this issue?

phaneub17_ESO

There's a bug where corpses either get slingshotted from their original death positions to "appear" next to you, go underground, or just die standing very still. This appearance is not where they really are, but shows up on your screen that way. There's 2 things you can do, either kill something else nearby and hope its body doesn't get teleported so you can loot all targets nearby or travel some distance away and come back, hoping they will appear in their correct spots on your return.

Skwor

Usually a terrain issue, the npc taget box for the body has fallen below the world surface but the graphic is still showing on the surface collision boundary.

Other than repositioning yourself, which only works rarely, there is nothing you can do. Walk away and forget about it.

Inaya

phaneub17_ESO wrote: »

There's a bug where corpses either get slingshotted from their original death positions to "appear" next to you, go underground, or just die standing very still. This appearance is not where they really are, but shows up on your screen that way. There's 2 things you can do, either kill something else nearby and hope its body doesn't get teleported so you can loot all targets nearby or travel some distance away and come back, hoping they will appear in their correct spots on your return.

Yeah I've been trying to kill other mobs next to it. The dead standing ones are annoying too.

elvenmad

Inaya wrote: »

because you are too far away? I'm standing on it! Anyone else with this issue?

Yeah happens all the time in every zone, usually just after I kill a mob it instantly teleports away and lays dead and is not lootable, real annoying.

Riverspirit

I am seeing the same thing. If you are close enough, you might be able to loot it really quick before it slingshots, but if not you have to try to draw something else close enough and kill it. I hope they fix this soon.

Kilcosu

just happened to me. boss slingshot itself and now can't look. are the devs aware of this?

just got loot from the boss that was stuck. just got far enough away from the body that it "resets" to the right dead position. hope this helps and hope it gets fixed

Dusk_Coven

I'm pretty sure this is related to lag but not 100%

What you can try is walking backward along the route the creature moved and click about trying to loot. You might get lucky and be where the game thinks the corpse is (versus where the game is rendering the corpse and the hitbox) and get the loot.

Smitch_59

I've been seeing this bug a lot since Elsweyr. Quite annoying. Xbox NA.

FlopsyPrince

This has started hitting for me the last couple of days. It still happens even after I cleared out all local ESO data as well, in case someone wants to blame that.

LukosCreyden

There are two things you can do to avoid this bug.

1. Be close to the enemy when you kill them. They always seem to teleport to the location you were at when you land the killing blow. AKA, try to avoid dealing killing blows at range.
2. Turn "condolidate area loot" on and kill something else near to the bugged enemy, remembering the steps in point 1. This will let you loot the new dead enemy, who should also hold the loot of the bugged one.

jainiadral

Getting lots of this the last couple of days on PC-NA in overland maps.

redgreensunset

LukosCreyden wrote: »

There are two things you can do to avoid this bug.

1. Be close to the enemy when you kill them. They always seem to teleport to the location you were at when you land the killing blow. AKA, try to avoid dealing killing blows at range.
2. Turn "condolidate area loot" on and kill something else near to the bugged enemy, remembering the steps in point 1. This will let you loot the new dead enemy, who should also hold the loot of the bugged one.

It is possible this may lessen the number of enciunter, I haven't really kept track, but even if you kill them up close and personal with a single blow they can port. Had an example just this morning where I used Blade of Woe on a cultist, just for funsies and practice, only once the animation stopped the dead dude immediate ported a couple of meters away.

majulook

Its been happening in all zones since Elsweyr.

The only way I have found to loot a "transported" corpse is have "consolidate area loot" enabled, and kill and loot something else close enough that the loot area encompasses the "transported" corpse.

Possibly a collateral bug of some code added / modified for the necromancer skills.