[bug] Giant thumper worm glitching to other locations

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I started a thumper in a cave two full map grids away from our base on a dedicated server (open world Styx). The giant cave worm appeared (after many smaller and mid-sized worms, on what was supposed to be a low threat thumper run), and kept glitching out. I was able to hit it a few times, then was unable to hit it after it started glitching. Once the thumper run completed, the worm no longer appeared in the cave . . . but spawned over at our base where my partner was building. We were completely unable to damage it, but it was able to kill us and damage/destroy our base and equipment. We logged out and stopped the dedicated server - it did not reappear after the server restart.

Under consideration Follow Up Suggested by: Khadour (22 Feb, '23) • Upvoted: 26 Feb, '23 • Comments: 4

Comments: 4

22 Feb, '23
Elissa - Producer Admin
Hi there, do you have any screenshots or videos of this happening? What do you mean by glitching?
22 Feb, '23
Khadour
Unfortunately, I do not have any screenshots or video. It spawned inside a mid-sized cave (the one on the border between G8 and H8) after several other worms. I was able to get several hits on it while backpedaling and heading out the tunnel to the front of the cave. When I went back in, it was still there, but had impinged on the northern rocks in the cave. I was unable to hit it at this point. I ducked back into the entry of the cave, and went back again, and it had disappeared. When I went further into the cave, it re-emerged, but then immediately disappeared again. It continued this behavior until the thumper stopped, at which point it spawned near my partner at our base in the southwest corner of F10. They were unable to damage it, but it did significant damage to our base, and killed them multiple times before I got back there. When I arrived back, it had gotten dark, all I could see were the clouds of its emergence, but not the worm itself.
22 Feb, '23
Khadour
It continued to damage myself and our base until we both logged out and shut down the dedicated server. On server restart, no sign of the worm, but still lots of damage to the base.
23 Feb, '23
Elissa - Producer Admin
Thanks for all the details! I have passed it onto a dev to look into limiting the area of the thumper/worm system. Thanks!