Objects/Creatures/ People dropping in and flying off.

[skytale]

Looked around for this in the forums and didn't find anything. But here it goes.

 

While in the Wasteland-

 

1) I noticed in the distance it looked like several cars flew up from the surface and dissapeared into the sky. Was not really sure of what I saw, did not think much of it, kept playing.

 

2) Several playing hours (realtime) later I saw what I thought were Giant ants falling from the sky just over the next ridge. When I cleared the next ridge, sure enough, theres 6 or so dead Giant ants.

 

3) Approached Meristi station from the North and saw 4-5 Talon Mercs walking around. Using my sniper rifle, I dropped them all. A few seconds after the last one dropped, I watched in amazment as all of the Mercs flew off of the ground and dissappeared into the sky as if plucked by the hand of God.

 

The first two I thought the game might have been altering the gamescape due to events that were happening beyond my perception. Like when you stumble upon a few dead creatures and sure enough there is a Deathclaw running around that had recently dispatched the lesser creatures. The third one, I don't know.

 

I am running FOOK, MMM, and a player house mod in Megaton.

 

It does not really affect play all that much unless I was depending on looting the Mercs.

Any Ideas?

[evilneko]

It's a known glitch in Fallout 3, most often happens when you enter or exit a cell. One time, a super mutant flew past me on a low trajectory and smashed into some rocks ahead of me. That was amusing.

[3rdtryguy]

It's av known glitch, yes, which is caused by something also known. I remember that I once also had this problem, but it went away when I disabled the .. thing... that was causing it.

I can't remember what it was, though. There is something incompatible with a patch version and a mod that causes it, but for the life of me I can't remember what it was in my case. From what I gather, there are several different combinations of version/mod which can cause this.

I do remember that the mod that caused it for me needed a certain patch version to work, but I didn't have it, but I REALLY wanted that mod and tried it anyway. It aaaaalllmost worked.

[skytale]

Thanks for the feed back. Glad I'm not alone. I think this glitch only affects game play if you are trying to fleeece a recent kill and it "flys off". I have not had any live creatures drop in or been hit on the head with a car (yet).

[staticnoise]

lol if thats all you have seen from this glitch you havent seen much yet get ready for more lol but seriously i dont think it has to do with any particular mod or game patch causeing it cause it does it on tha play station versions (normal and GotY) and on pc with a bunch of fun mods running...well lol it can get funny

 

like once i was chillin over tha ledge at evergreen mills...gettin ready to snipe for about an hour..(MMM lots of raiders down there lol) and out of no where a dead protectron bashed into me from tha air and pushed me over the edge xD