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[Koniving]

Very strange and somewhat disturbing experience... Are these miniature clan dropship models? Landmines? Or some other crazy thing like map markers for developer side placement of different things that decided to reveal themselves to me? (edited out the F's in the video for forum use.)



What ARE these things, and has anyone else seen them? No one else in ZhiZhu can seem to see them.

[Dirus Nigh]

wow, I have to keep an eye out for this.

Now I have Chef's chocolate salty balls song in my head.

Edited by Dirus Nigh, 18 November 2012 - 01:01 AM.

[MasterofBlasters]

[superbob]

IIRC floating balls indicated materials not loading. Balls embedded in the soil? Maybe same thing.

I suggest:
1. reduce graphics settings in MWO
2. update graphics drivers
3. reinstall MWO

If neither of these steps fixes your problem, submit a ticket with your dxdiag and these screenshots, this may help track down some nasty bugs.

edit: you can submit tickets with files attached here.

Edited by superbob, 18 November 2012 - 01:38 AM.

[Smeehee]

Aren't those where all the trees are on Caustic Valley? It looks like your game has replaced the trees with balls. Weird.

[Cest7]

lolreinstall

[Rushin Roulette]

Well.. some people see small Leprechauns who tell them to burn everythign down... others are less fortunate and see... balls.

[Koniving]

Smeehee, on 18 November 2012 - 02:36 AM, said:

Aren't those where all the trees are on Caustic Valley? It looks like your game has replaced the trees with balls. Weird.

But there's no trees near the hill side of the base. Judging by their size, I'm thinking they're supposed to be certain types of rocks.

superbob, on 18 November 2012 - 01:37 AM, said:

IIRC floating balls indicated materials not loading. Balls embedded in the soil? Maybe same thing.

I haven't had any changes to the game since the last patch. Haven't been able to replicate it either. But once I knocked a tree over on River City. O.o; Just kinda bumped it, and it fell over. Screenshot: http://s29.beta.phot...a/Tree.jpg.html

During the pre-open beta server stress tests, I was able to knock over several River City street light poles while everyone else lagged so bad they couldn't move. My computer was able to push through the lag, and I got to their base, captured, and won. Yay!

[Redshift2k5]

You are missing (or not rendering) a texture, model, material, effect etc. That floating ball (well, normally they float) indicates an error or missing element. It will only affect you client-side, and your teammates will see the correct item/material/effect. If it continues, you may need to verify your game pak files to make sure you're not missing something important.

[B00MH34DSPL4T]

"Everywhere I go there's... Balls. Just everywhere, balls!"

Ahahahahaha xD

[Nooee]

Mech Droppings ???

[Koniving]

It hasn't happened again. Though I never needed to reinstall, lower settings, etc.

But while I have everyone's attention, I'd like to link you to this time-sensitive forum thread I have on an MWO video I did with the old (discarded) *******' Betty:

http://mwomercs.com/...need-critiques/