Disappearing SRV after black screen - PSA sort of

Maxx Thorogood

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Thought I'd drop this today in hopes it might help someone else. For a while I had persistent problems with getting out of my SRV to scan exobio only to have the black screen appear with no hope of the on foot scenario loading. After exiting to the main menu and returning, my SRV is stowed back on the ship and I'm a kilometer or so away from my ship on foot. This happened at least 2 or 3 times in a couple hours of exobio hunting. Never happened at settlements.... just exobilogy hunting. Thanks to advice from others here, I started waiting a bit before hitting the disembark button on the lower panel . That helped reduce the number of times this scenario occurred but it still happened. After reading through more threads on this, I decided to take a closer look at what my ping was in the Network settings in ED. The ping was above 500ms consistently which documentation says is not that good. Again, following more tips from various threads, I switched from Ipv4 to ipv6 in ED network settings. Not only did my ping drop to ~120 ms but the black screen of death has stopped. Stopped for the past 10 days or so. Of course this may be more about my struggle with my internet provider perhaps than it is a story about ED but if you are experiencing the same issue I was, it might just help to play around with some of your network settings in ED. On thing that does fall on the game devs though is the restowing of the SRV. Once you have deployed your SRV and it is on the ground, game crash or not it should remain there until I put it back on the ship and never be stowed away by the game.
 

varonica

varonica
Yeah I found I have far fewer disembark incidents when I wait a while also, I suspect this is something to do with loading the required assets for legs, rush through menu's to fast and it doesn't get loaded. It's only happened once since I started pausing and that may actually have been me acting to fast anyway. Though I have noted once I have disembarked once on a planet, as long as I don't change instances, that is jump to SC and back for example, it's works fine every time.
 

varonica

varonica
Maxx Thorogood said:
Once you have deployed your SRV and it is on the ground, game crash or not it should remain there until I put it back on the ship and never be stowed away by the game.
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The problem is the SRV can't exist independently outside your instance, so if you get stuck down a hole and can't get out even using the jet pack and use the menu function to recover to a safe location and the SRV remains on the ground it will explode and vanish and you will have no SRV, potentially tens of thousands of LY from the bubble or anywhere you can buy one. It's a function that's put in place to avoid this problem, which FDEV would get a lot more complaints about if they just left SRV's on the ground to explode.

Just try it, deploy in the SRV, use the blue circle to get back in the ship and take off, you will soon receive a message that your SRV has exploded on the ground. The same will happen if you run far enough away from the SRV after deployment, the ship will take off and leave the SRV behind.... and it's certainly possible to get far enough away with extra supplies and jetpack and your SRV will go boom! The existence of the SRV is entirely based on you being there to maintain the instance, and being close enough to the SRV that it remains in your instance. If it wasn't loaded back into the ship when you disconnected it won't remain there, it will just die and you won't have an SRV at all, it's not like the ship in the way it works.
 

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
I've had the black screen of death at settlements. It's particularly vexing if you're there on a restore mission. After you've relogged, all lockers and data points are empty (although you can still power the settlement on if you haven't already).

If there are scavs present, I like to slip into something more comfortable to take them on with and then swap to a thieving git loadout once they're dispatched. This does make the chance of the black screen more likely (although not a lot).

Over all, though, I have to say it seems a lot less prevalent lately.

The swap from IPV4 to 6 sounds interesting; I've never looked into this before so I might experiment - thanks for the heads up in that nugget.

EDIT: no, perhaps I won't look into changing the port forwarding stuff - it's way over my head! :D
 
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