Gleambow is turning me off of boundless

DrCyanide · 2019-11-29T02:09:11.955Z

I will say i’m quite fast and responsive with this event, as I’ve got a fully decked out skill set for this event along side my super long and fast emerald grapples, speed brews and of course guild buffs. As i said i do barely just get there in time to hit the meteor before it dies out. But as a bit of a funny note i have killed myself a couple times with how i’m going lol

Ulfric · 2019-11-29T02:11:49.762Z

Ye well thats where the terrain part comes in, since you would know how to navigate the fastest way, believe me thats why i dont even bother changin the planets i hunt on even tho its T4 and T3

Trundamere · 2019-11-29T02:35:22.812Z

Kaplah:

Anybody else having this problem?

I had this problem, I was able to fix it by changing all of the visual settings down to the lowest, other then the draw distance, I put that at max, and made sure the network setting for chunk download rate was also set at max, that seemed to have fixed it for me at this time.

I am on PC with a GTX 1080 Ti driving a 2560x1440 display, I know my machine should be able to handle max settings fine but for some reason it cannot.

The experience was Borderline rage inducing while the problem was happening…

Cuetzpalomitl · 2019-11-29T02:39:01.765Z

Im on the same train. I had to lower all the settings and still Its horrible to play.

EDIT

Im on PC

BloodRaven56 · 2019-11-29T02:39:24.440Z

Same thing with me I start running towards it and all of the world disappear around me very annoying I stopped doing the event last time because this happened then as well

majorvex · 2019-11-29T02:46:15.248Z

Many issues last time too. I believe they ended up changing the timers. I wish they’d loosen things up a little bit so everyone could enjoy this awesome event. I’m all for working towards higher levels/crafting/machines/skills & character progression, but not during special events

Gleambow Racing General

So went gleambow hunting with my guild on Cephonex Merika… spawned several meteors, but was unable to get to any of them before they were timed out. I am an experienced T6 hunter and couldn’t get there… my newer players never had a chance. I think the timer needs to seriously be reset to be longer. @james Thoughts?

Enyone else find gleambow meteors timing out to soon? General

the last 4 out of five meteors have timed out way to early. just wached a pure gleamball hit the ground and after collecting 3 it fails. I did my happy dance before posting to save you all the colorful metifors I had on the point of my tongue.

Cuetzpalomitl · 2019-11-29T02:50:41.997Z

Maybe timer starts with meteor life, and just spawn a couple more cuttles? Idk how people would feel about this.

But getting to the meteor is painful when the game has a stroke every 3 seconds.

deenw · 2019-11-29T02:53:24.751Z

Haven’t had a chance to do a gleambow. But is it even worth it given that the block loot are just completely random and most of us are specific in our builds?

FireAngelDth · 2019-11-29T02:55:14.950Z

If you’re a collector/hoarder it doesn’t matter how random things are

majorvex · 2019-11-29T02:55:59.466Z

Since we don’t have that much of a variety in gleam colors on perm planets, and a lot of the Exos spawn w colors we already have… a lot of people have been waiting on this event to get specific colors. Some people also want to complete their collections. (A lot have been waiting for black gleam.)

superman101 · 2019-11-29T02:56:51.457Z

I did test run this morning in aussie land that is and had no troubles getting too the gleam bow metor and gutted that thing before it knew it had hit the ground. I had no time out issues…

Cuetzpalomitl · 2019-11-29T03:04:07.192Z

I already have like 100 black gleam from a couple meteors

Soju-VB · 2019-11-29T03:06:25.503Z

I did not get any black gleam this morning, but did get some black glass.

Nightstar · 2019-11-29T03:07:51.221Z

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confirmed that I can see the spawn. Then this happened:

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the one i was able to get to:

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Then this guy:

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STRAIGHT across the water. I slammed a mega speed but still couldn’t make it.

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Anyways i’m pretty sure I’m in order now, it’s just a matter of the luck of the spawn and traveling skills.

As for the technical issues with the world despawning/re-rendering/whatever I play at the very bottom of the pc hardware spectrum and this is a frequent problem for me traveling with mega speed and fast grapples.

It gets especially bad after a lot of portals and trips to sanctum, or character switching. If you’re on a PC try so restarting steam, not just boundless. I can’t stress that enough. I’ve tried restarting boundless several times in the past with no change and then restarting steam clears it up. I have no idea why.

Get the graphics settings down, not just selecting low but turning bloom, depth of field, and sometimes ever per-pixel rendering to off. Boundless sort of shows you far stuff and then when you get close enough it seems to want to redraw everything and for me at least, that’s where it goes bad and the whole world fogs out for a second. Manually disabling as many effects as possible is all I’ve found to do.

If that’s still not working, you might try a different region/planet. The internet is wonky and your closest region is not always the best connection, sadly.

deenw:

Haven’t had a chance to do a gleambow. But is it even worth it given that the block loot are just completely random and most of us are specific in our builds?

It’s like anything random. It sucks when it’s bad and it’s great when it’s good lol. Know anybody that needs any weird color sponges?

So far I did find three solid glass dormants on delta cancret though so that’s 141 more glass blocks without even fighting a gleambow. My advice right now is don’t get your hopes up, go have a look around and get what you can.

Maybe you hit a streak and have the best day of your boundless life lol. Maybe you just explore some new regions …

As long as you’re not going out expecting to get flooded in rare gleam and glass, there’s nothing but time to be lost. Well maybe some buffs.

superman101:

I did test run this morning in aussie land that is and had no troubles getting too the gleam bow metor and gutted that thing before it knew it had hit the ground. I had no time out issues…

Cuetzpalomitl:

I already have like 100 black gleam from a couple meteors

See ?

FireAngelDth · 2019-11-29T03:08:05.683Z

Nice. I managed to get 1 black gleam from 4 gleam meteors. I swear last time it was guaranteed that there was always 1 black gleam.

Edit: for time frame being wrong

Venom · 2019-11-29T03:08:12.132Z

Grapple, brews, food, dedicated skillpoints to going faster for someone that started two weeks ago is nuts. I can’t name one game that requires new players to invest that much to participate on any scale. Not to mention vet players who just aren’t fast.

Granted the timer fluctuates based on completion percentage but the people completing it are veterans like myself with all the top gear and max skill points dedicated to the event.

Nightstar · 2019-11-29T03:09:45.523Z

FireAngelDth:

I swear last year it was guaranteed that there was always 1 black gleam.

Yeah I seem to recall every meteor having one block of black gleam in it last year.

almund · 2019-11-29T03:13:09.568Z

FireAngelDth:

I swear last year it was guaranteed that there was always 1 black gleam.

It was this year!!! I also think that there were always black gleam

Cuetzpalomitl · 2019-11-29T03:17:36.099Z

I lost at least 10 meteors due technical issues but still got some goodies, will try what others have suggested about Chunk limit and steam and see if that improves the damn thing

superman101 · 2019-11-29T03:20:17.569Z

Well if u have no luck I can donate some loot to you later on…don’t want anyone missing out