Disappearing Items

[hozz1235]

Okay, I thought I was going crazy before, but I know I'm not now.  More than once, when entering a building, for the briefest of moments, I see items (on counters, peg-boards, etc.) but they disappear.  I just entered a house in CH and saw (what looked like) some coffee and pork n' beans on the counter, but in a flash they were gone!  Anyone else notice this?

[Guest jeffpeng]

Yes, you're not seeing ghosts. Well, technically you are seeing ghosts. But at least you're not imagining things.

I think what happens is the following:

• The game loads an interior for the first time
• The game has to decide which of the pre-placed items actually exist in this run (RNG, difficulty etc)
• The interior has finished loading, including assets and items, the scene is displayed
• Meanwhile the game isn't yet fishing deciding so all possible items are shown
• The game finally decides and removes/hides the items that are not available

I have no expert knowledge if this is actually what happens, but it's the best explanation I got. It would basically be a race condition between two threads - of which TLD has many.

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Example of disappearance.

TheLongDark 2019-02-16 17-40-46.mp4