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MikeSkurge's avatar
6 years ago

Invisble Characters / Can't move

Hello,

This only started happening today after the latest patch introducing all of the Halloween stuff.

I join into the game at Giddy Park and everything seems fine, until I go to the changing station.

All of the characters go invisible, I can hear the sound effects and everything. If I switch teams, it's the still the same thing.

When I try to play as one of the characters, they are still invisible.

Some people around me are invisible and still walking around, although I can't.

Here's some screenshots of what it looks like for me..

Also, while typing this I went back to the game to find it had black screened. It was still responding it didn't crash but it was just, a black screen..

No audio or anything.

(I hope this isn't just my internet acting up, since I just upgraded and that means it's still not good enough. Lol)

EDIT: Also, weirdly enough there is only one character for me who actually will show up when this happens. Which is Night Cap, in the changing booth she is invisible but she still shows her particles and eyes. When I choose her (the majority of the time) she will show up and I can jump up and down. Although, I can't move or perform any abilities..

29 Replies

  • Same problem on PS4. I've read about this quite some time ago, but never ran into this bug myself. But since about 3 days ago, we suddenly started seeing this. It mostly happens when switching side (plants -> zombies, zombies -> plants). 

    Point of interest: we changed the settings of Giddy Park to "online" 3 days back.

    Cheers!

    [EDIT:] After chaning the settings back to "private with AI", the bug seems to be gone. Can anyone confirm this? 

  • blend112's avatar
    blend112
    6 years ago

    The invisibility problem seems to be affected by the festivals. While Snowday was very bad, Valenbrainz was better. The current event seems to be bad again: After hanging out a while in Giddy Park you will soon see arrows without teammmates and get vanquished by invisible opponents.

    And this is still happening 5 months after it was discovered.

  • Well it is a long term investigation according to the trello board, they are probably just having a very hard time trying to find out what is causing it. I cant seem to replicate it at least on purpose.

  • My friend and I play on PS4 and this happens all the time. It is very frustrating. It also happens when we use a drone as Cactus / Dreadbeard.

  • I got the game after Christmas and I've been having this issue ever since. It's very frequent and easy to reproduce, and also highly annoying having to reboot the game every time. Or wait for about 4-5 minutes, until the character seems to be fully loaded and suddenly pops up.

  • Unbelievable this annoying bug is still not adressed. Getting ot everyday when i play now. Often multiple times

  • Don't worry, I had this problem before, it's really annoying to deal with and I don't know why they're still not fixing it. Just to be honest, you'll never know when they'll fix the problem since I've had this problem for like, I think 20 times. I can't really explain why it's just there for no reason.

  • Xbox One mains like me do have this problem... so, bugs can occur on the consoles as well as PC. 

  • This happens on switch if you stay online for too long

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