[BUG] Invisible ships (with video of an invisible ship...)

[BishopC]

(No, they are not cloaked)
So far, we have the invisible ship problem showing up in at least 2 different ways, but my assumption is that it happens even more.


1. When playing together with another player, being in the same instance, one player can see and fight the NPC, the other does not even see him and only sees player one shooting into the void. This problem seems rather prevalent, since I experienced this first hand on 3 different occasions.

2. Jumping into an instance, nothing is seen, but you get a message from nowhere. Video below.
[video]www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwRjbroDslA[/video]

3. (Assumption) Your ship taking damage and exploding for no apparent reason. Collision with an invisible ship?

4. (Assumption, most probably wrong, I rather think the instancing is just borked) When interdicted, the players involved spawn in empty space. Maybe they just can't see each other?

My guess? - The Flying Dutchman perhaps. Phantom Ghost ship.

 

[Wellington]

I experienced this invisible ship hiccup last night in a war zone......I'm closing on my target, ready to deal the killing blow when suddenly out of nowhere I am attacked, cant see another ship on my radar apart from my current target, cant eyeball them and BOOM! "Your ship was destroyed by XXXXXXXX"............ Something is borked here......ONE MORE REASON FOR OFFLINE MODE!

 

[cybin]

Obviously it must be the Thargoids using stealth technology, no?!?

 

[bAdbUd]

I've had this when I visited Voyager 1, surprisingly there was another CMDR sightseeing there and I couldn't see Voyager, I asked them where it was, they said right in front of them, still I couldn't see it. I had to leave and reenter and only then could I see Voyager.

 

[Trader38]

Definately a bug there.
On a side note, that's my home system you're in so if you fancy hooking up i'm in Mobius or friend me.

 

[CMDR i Tetsuo]

I've experienced this, was in an instance with two other friends, I can see everyone but they couldn't see each other. As an experiment I got one friend to shoot at me after getting the other friend to park up in the line of fire. In my screen I could see the bullets hitting my friend but my ship was taking the damage...

 

[Mithos09]

I've experienced this, was in an instance with two other friends, I can see everyone but they couldn't see each other. ...

I can confirm this, I've experienced the same some time ago. We tried several times but we rarely managed to be in the same, each seeing the others.

They'll have to fix this with the wings update, it's absolutely mandatory.

 

[Pyrion]

You got it all wrong. Here is the explanation *drumroll*:

Thargoids with cloaking devices!

 

[777Driver]

This has happened to me, but on pure stupidity on my part. Had shut down everything except FSD and Thruster's to safely jump away from VY Canis Majoris.

Ended up jumping 2000LY back to populated space, got interdicted and couldn't figure out why no ship was showing up on my target panel. Jumped out and another 300LY later realized everything was still shutdown for all that time.

Never experienced the bug described by the OP, maybe internet location and country has something to with it.

 

[Tacyon]

Wonder if these are the same prototype ships that are interdicting players ! ?

I can't tell you how many times I've been interdicted by an invisible entity.