Bug Report: invisible planet

[CMDR Mira Tigerheart]

Moon HIP 36601 C 1A, formerly the best source of polonium nearest the bubble, has become invisible & immaterial since the latest update.
I was just there yesterday before the update, and it was fine then.

It exists now as only a point of light. Stars are visible through where the planet should be.
The gravity exclusion zone remains, and surface locations can be targeted... but there is no model, and no surface to land on.

Attempting to glide down to the surface allows your ship to pass right through where the surface should be, as the altimeter stops at -1 meters... but the ship keeps flying unhindered, and glide doesn't end until you pull up.

 

[Mr T]

Sounds very strange. Do you have pics? Could it have been destroyed by the Thargoids? (unlikely but had to ask)

 

[CMDR Mira Tigerheart]

Absolutely can.
Here I am in supercruise, just above the exclusion zone, with the star HIP 36601 C behind me, and facing the moon. Planet 1 is directly behind the moon in this shot.
As you can see by the angle and my HUD showing how close I am, the moon should be filling my field of view... yet I can see right through it.

I have tried reloading the game twice. I tried jumping to a nearby system and returning to reload the system. I tried FSS (which oddly forgot all scanned surface geology/biology sites in the system), and can see the planet in the FSS scan, but it vanishes when I approach it. I tried to use surface scan probes on it, but they just impacted on nothing (and I've already mapped this body anyway). Nothing I've tried makes the planet visible or solid.

I can only assume this is some sort of bug.

 

[Onfire Mightexplode]

... Attempting to glide down to the surface allows your ship to pass right through where the surface should be, as the altimeter stops at -1 meters... but the ship keeps flying unhindered, and glide doesn't end until you pull up.

Video of this really weird behaviour would be cool to see.

 

[CMDR Mira Tigerheart]

Video of this really weird behaviour would be cool to see.

I don't have any video capture software. Any suggestions?

 

[CMDR Mira Tigerheart]

In lieu of a video, I took some more screenshots of me repeating my attempt to land on the immaterial moon.
Note my HUD readouts: altimeter, pitch, and changing coordinates as I fly over and through the invisible surface.

First two pictures show the descent in glide, third shows me gliding underground with the altimeter stuck at -1m altitude.
The ship groans & creaks a lot when underground, but I took no damage and found nothing to hit. I kept going for a while, but it was clear nothing would change.

In the fourth picture, I had aborted the glide by pulling up, come to a stop deep inside the planet, and pitched down to look toward the core.
It took 2 minutes of boosting for the surface to get out of -1m altitude and free of the planet's mass lock.

In the fifth picture, I had ascended to hover at about 100 meters above the ground, and pitched down to look at the surface.
Note that my proximity alarm sees the surface, but radar does not. At just 100 meters, it absolutely should.

I deployed my gear and attempted to land, but the surface GUI never appeared on the radar. Everything else in the HUD was normal... except the ship would simply pass through the surface, and never found any suitable landable area. I gave up and left. This planet is seriously bugged.

 

[Onfire Mightexplode]

I don't have any video capture software. Any suggestions?

I use Nvidia's Shadowplay, so I'm far out of the loop on what the best alternative capture software would be.
I've heard OBS is a good solution though for those that don't use Shadowplay or similar, so might suit you in this instance.

Cool images, strange bug

 

[CMDR Mira Tigerheart]

I found another formerly-landable planet semi-deleted by the same bug. Outotz LS-K d8-3 B, moon 5c. Best source of pure antimony near the bubble.
It is now also invisible, unmappable, unlandable, and immaterial.

Note my distance as I near the glide range, yet the planet is only a point object with the stars behind it clearly visible. Exactly like HIP 36601 C 1a.

 

[STRONTIUM DOG]

Loki and bartleby did actually get to the church on time and the stars then started to rapidly blink out too

 

[CMDR Mira Tigerheart]

All the landable moons orbiting Outotz LS-K d8-3 B 5 are affected by this bug. (B 5A pictured)
Goodbye sources of antimony and yttrium.

I'm starting to suspect the bug affects all planets of a particular landable type.
Unlandable planets are not affected. I have mapped a few tonight. Moon 5b in this planetary system is unlandable, and appears normal.

But not all landable planets are bugged, either. I was landed on one during the update (HIP 36601 C 5a), and it was perfectly normal.

 

[SMcA]

Loki and bartleby did actually get to the church on time and the stars then started to rapidly blink out too

Arthur C. Clarke’s “The Nine Billion Names of God”, springs to mind.

https://urbigenous.net/library/nine_billion_names_of_god.html

 

[CMDR Mira Tigerheart]

The bug seems to be affecting all landable planets, except for the one I was landed on when I opened the game tonight.
All planetary ground activities are inaccessible. There is no model for any of these planets, no terrain, no surface of any kind.
Very strange...

I've had Horizons since the end of 2018... and yes, this is in the Horizons version of the game. To prove it, here's what Long Sight Base looks like with an invisible planet (at least the engineering bases are still working normally).

 

[SMcA]

The bug seems to be affecting all landable planets, except for the one I was landed on when I opened the game tonight.
Engineers are inaccessible. All planetary ground activities are inaccessible. There is no model for any of these planets, no terrain, no surface of any kind.

I've had Horizons since the end of 2018... and yes, this is in the Horizons version of the game.

Well done. It looks like a nice bug. Have you reported it?
It is a shame that you are behind that "Permit Locked" volume of space. It took me almost a week to get back last time I was there.

 

[CMDR Mira Tigerheart]

Well done. It looks like a nice bug. Have you reported it?
It is a shame that you are behind that "Permit Locked" volume of space. It took me almost a week to get back last time I was there.

Is this not how to report a bug?

I have encountered no permit-locked regions between HIP 36601 and the bubble. It took me only a couple-dozen 55 to 58 Ly jumps to zip back to the bubble. As you can see by my landing at Long Sight Base, I made decent time. Got nearly 36 million in exploration data out of it, so not a total loss, even if my run to fill up on grade-4 elements had to be abandoned halfway through. There's always another time for shooting crystals.

In the meantime... I can get some otherwise impossible pictures... like the underside of Elvira Martuuk's base:

 

[SMcA]

Is this not how to report a bug?

Noooo!
This is where you gripe about a bug.

Try starting here till someone give you a more direct link

Issue Tracker

issues.frontierstore.net

I have encountered no permit-locked regions between HIP 36601 and the bubble. It took me only a couple-dozen 55 to 58 Ly jumps to zip back to the bubble. As you can see by my landing at Long Site Base, I made decent time. Got nearly 36 million in exploration data out of it, so not a total loss, even if my run to fill up on grade-4 elements had to be abandoned halfway through. There's always another time for shooting crystals.

I just did a quick check from near Jameson's and could not plot a route. A month or two ago I got trapped close to where you posted.
Can you plot a route to Sol or the founder's world?
Next time I go online I'll have a look.

 

[SMcA]

I have encountered no permit-locked regions between HIP 36601 and the bubble. It took me only a couple-dozen 55 to 58 Ly jumps to zip back to the bubble. As you can see by my landing at Long Site Base, I made decent time. Got nearly 36 million in exploration data out of it, so not a total loss, even if my run to fill up on grade-4 elements had to be abandoned halfway through. There's always another time for shooting crystals.

Oops! wetware problems. ECONOMICAL ROUTES was set although not showing.

 

[CMDR Mira Tigerheart]

Thanks, I created an issue for them. It doesn't look like anybody else has reported this bug yet.
Definitely something to gripe about though. I may be one of a handful who actually like the SRVs... but despite their flaws, it's a nice change of pace. Unfortunately, now it looks like my SRV is useless ballast, and my only compensation for the loss is a shiny paintjob.

Maybe it'll get fixed in... hmm... knowing Fdev, not gonna get my hopes up.

I just did a quick check from near Jameson's and could not plot a route. A month or two ago I got trapped close to where you posted.
Can you plot a route to Sol or the founder's world?
Next time I go online I'll have a look.

I had no trouble plotting to any of my unlocked permit systems.

Plotting was a bit sluggish when I logged in earlier today, but now it seems back to normal.

I tend not to use the economical routes option... but then, my exploration Phantom has a miniature black hole for a fuel scoop, and I always top up before moving on, so it's not a problem. So far, I've never had to call on the amazing Rats.

 

[Morbad]

Video of this really weird behaviour would be cool to see.

Hold my chocolate milk...

starts upload

 

[STRONTIUM DOG]

Arthur C. Clarke’s “The Nine Billion Names of God”, springs to mind.

https://urbigenous.net/library/nine_billion_names_of_god.html

I was actually thinking that so I put an A.C. Clarke twist on the ending of the angel and demons comedy film
called dogma about two fallen angels who set off to get back into heaven as if they succeeded it would undo creation
theres also a disturbing sci fi film called pi which touches on the subject matter

 

[Morbad]

Does this look similar to what you experienced?

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C_kX3UXnfQ


I recorded that a bit over six years ago in Beta 1, before exclusion zones were added to normal space (they existed in SC, so I dropped out and flew the rest of the way in normal space).

Your account seems as though you stumbled across a world with a missing SC exclusion/drop out zone and just flew through the insubstantial world.

I would report it, giving exact location, as a missing exclusion/glide transition zone.