Closed Teleport Bug

Since the last update a new bug seems to have appeared. when i travel to a new planet and try to beam down, it beams me strait back onto my ship, sometimes it manages to beam to the planet but more often than not i end up on my ships teleporter not the planet.

 

It seems like there are quite a few people with the same issue, me among them. Hopefully that is one of the bugs they plan on fixing in the next update. The only thing that seems to help is repeatedly hitting the beam down button.

 

I have the same problem too! Thanks for reporting it!

 

I too keep having this problem

 

Been getting this issue as well, hope they fix it next patch!

 

Hold down the "S" key while teleporting down and it will drop you through the object it thinks it trying to put you in.

Same Idea as dropping through a platform.

 

Thanks! Will try that out.

 

Also having the same issue - tried crouching before, during, after, running away, jumping, saving and quitting, starting a new character, flying to another planet, everything I can to get around this bug. No luck with any method so far.

Thanks for the suggestion though Erich.

 

It doesn't always tp me back up it seems - sometimes I just reappear in the ship with no animation.

Also, the length of time on the planet seems completely unreliable, sometimes it'll get me on the surface and as long as I don't press any keys it'll be OK. Then, snap, standing back in the ship.

Also - only affecting me in single player. I can join multiplayer servers but am booted after thirty seconds.

 

Ya, I have the same problem!

 

same here and its breaking the ships of whole races on my end

It first happened on a Hylotl ship and after that every new Hylotl I made started with that glitch

 

I found out that using Save and Exit sometimes fixes the problem, but not all of the time also tried holding down the 'S' key while teleporting doesn't fix it usually, but sometimes it works.

 

Fixed it! The only thing I thought was left to do was a fresh install.

I had it installed on both a laptop and desktop through steam. Wasn't getting the tp bug on my lappy, only on desktop.

Deleted starbound off both, reinstalled on desktop only. Had all my characters still and tp bug now gone.

 

I'm having this problem as well. Clean install didn't work, I was dubious about holding a key during teleport to begin with and even when I tried it it didn't work... I've tried cutting memory usage down (I will note I'm on a Compaq Presario CQ56 so it's an older laptop at the bottom end of requirements - 2GB ram is probably the important specification), I've tried both the regular and OpenGL versions... de nada. Zip. Nothing works. I don't just have this problem sometimes, too. I literally have a rate of less than 1 in 50 of actually landing on a planet, so it makes the game essentially unplayable!

 

Have you installed today's patch?

It hasn't happened to me yet since this update.

If you have I apologize for not having a solid answer for this issue, I am not sure how to replicate 20 or more unsuccessful teleports even on the previous patch ver.

I do have a theory as to why it happens though.

It was programmed in to teleport your sprite just slightly above the ground and then land a split second afterwards.

As you can visibly see this you can realize the possibility for a glitch. It's setup similarly to how you fall through a platform which is why I suggested before to hold down the " S " button during the teleport because it will bypass the secondary boundary when you are about to touch the ground after the teleport sequence.

You could also try moving in one direction or another or holding " W " or up as it would be and see if this will increase your success rate.

I am not the Dev's for this game though, so I can't start to tell you if there a permanent solution to this issue or even a good temp fix.

I'll add this to the bugs list, although i'm 100% certain it's already listed.

 

As a follow up on this I've experimented a couple times with this and for the most part it seems to work, if you hold down and then teleport most of the time it won't have an effect but if you teleport and just when the beam line is disappearing you hold down at least 90-100% of the time (I say that because it worked all the times except I think I took my finger off the key by accident once and it might not of worked then but I can't 100% remember) it works.
So that seems to be a fix for the bug for now at least with my game, it might not work with all computers but hopefully it should fix it for most people, you just need to learn the correct timing.
And hopefully the developers can figure out how to fix this bug and why holding down seems to fix it.

 

Is it taking a few tries to beam down from your ship? The planet needs time to load. We're hoping that this will be optimized in the near future; for now, please be patient and harvest some crops while you wait.

 

Lol, yeah I came here to report the same bug but I guess some people beat me to it