More ptarmigans spawns?

[Leeanda]

Has there been new spawn sites for ptarmigans added?   

Today I heard them outside the front of pv farm,which I've never had before,and I spend a lot of time there.

I didn't actually see them but definitely heard them..I was wondering if they are actually new there or it's an audio bug?

[Leeanda]

Just a quick update..I did find one bird outside the farm this morning so no audio bug..aside from the crazy clucking one they seem to do during auroras anyway...

Edited August 26 by Leeanda

[artmunki]

I heard their little chuckle in a new spot in MT the other day, but there was definitely no sign anywhere of any actual birds. And believe me I looked! I must've stuck around for a good hour or so of game-time, correcting my positioning every time I heard the sound, trying to figure out where it was coming from, but never found so much as a tiny footprint in the snow. For my own sanity I eventually decided that it was just sitting out of sight in a tree or a ledge up on the cliff somewhere above me and let it be. The sound was persistently in the same place (close-ish to the farm, but down near the bottom of the field where the grain silo is, not the usual flock by the farm itself) for a coupla days in game-time, so it did kinda confuse me.

I've definitely heard random little clucks at other times in places I've never seen ptarmigans too, so I've kinda just taken to thinking that maybe the ptarmigan's calls have been added to the array of random invisible bird calls used in the game anyway. I've no way to knowing if this is true, but it helps keep me from going daft trying to find flocks that just aren't there. 

[ThePancakeLady]

43 minutes ago, artmunki said:

heard their little chuckle in a new spot in MT the other day, but there was definitely no sign anywhere of any actual birds. And believe me I looked! I must've stuck around for a good hour or so of game-time, correcting my positioning every time I heard the sound, trying to figure out where it was coming from, but never found so much as a tiny footprint in the snow.

Was this behind the Paradise Meadows Farmhouse, by any chance? I was back behind the hill behind the farmhouse looking for saplings and kept hearing them, but not seeing them, and no nest showing up when I mapped the whole area, several times. It seemed like they were up on top of the hill (not the one where a body can spawn, but the other one). 

I am wondering if the bugfix to stop them from getting stuck and dancing in place broke the spawn points or something- now the audio is stuck in place, but not the birds? I've also had one single occurrence of the nest up at the ML Forestry Overlook where the birds were there and flew away, but the sound of them kept playing until I went into the building, closed the door, putzed around and came back out after looting the place and mapping the Polaroid Vista. Only had it happen once, and I haven't been able to reproduce it.

Thinking this might be a newish bug. I haven't reported it yet, since I don't have a savegame or session log for the one time it did happen at either place, but I should probably report it anyway.

[artmunki]

1 hour ago, ThePancakeLady said:

Was this behind the Paradise Meadows Farmhouse, by any chance?

Nope, not there. I see a flock around that area pretty often (not all the way up on either hill, but in the sorta mini pass between the two small hills behind the farmhouse, just above the rabbit spawn), so I think that's a regular spawn. The one I heard was kinda up next to the rockface close to the end of the main field (where the deer usually spawn), at the top of that little stand of trees on the slope, just between the top of the sorta embankment, and the hill that goes up to that little pond behind the church. There's no flat open space that would make sense as a ptarmigan spawn, which might be what made me so determined to find it, but no luck.

I know I'm not the only one who's wondered whether ptarmigans that fly away will land elsewhere or just eventually despawn when they're out of draw-range, but if they do land again maybe they can land anywhere on the map, even out-of-reach spots. That could certainly explain some of the random clucks many of us seem to hear all over the place, but I really don't know.

[Leeanda]

@ThePancakeLady    where does it say that the bug has been fixed? I couldn't find it...

If it has then there's still an issue because they were doing it at the farm the other day,all through the night during the aurora .. drove me nuts lol...

[Pencil]

I have seen lone ptarmigans in random locations after previously scaring some away (not sure if scaring them away is related though). If it's not an intended feature, I hope it becomes one because it's a nice little surprise even if you're not going to hunt them. 

But there are some glitchy ones that make a lot of noise. I'd say that's definitely a bug lol

 

[ThePancakeLady]

4 hours ago, Leeanda said:

@ThePancakeLady    where does it say that the bug has been fixed? I couldn't find it...

If it has then there's still an issue because they were doing it at the farm the other day,all through the night during the aurora .. drove me nuts lol...

It doesn't. I assumed it was fixed because I haven't encountered any stuck/dancing-in-place birds since the last hotfix- but it was a random thing that didn't always happen (on Steam or XBox) and not everyone saw consistently. So, apologies- I should know better then to assume. The weird audio (hearing ptarmigans where there are none) is new for me on both platforms though- not something I recall encountering before the last hotfix. Wondering if they are separate bugs, or part of the same bug. Kinda thinking this thread should be in Technical Discussions instead of in TFTFT Discussions.

3 hours ago, Pencil said:

I have seen lone ptarmigans in random locations after previously scaring some away (not sure if scaring them away is related though). If it's not an intended feature, I hope it becomes one because it's a nice little surprise even if you're not going to hunt them. 

Yeah, I've seen that too, in several different regions- flying usually close to (away from) but not right at a nesting site. And I agree- I like it. It's a nice detail that feels right.

Edited August 27 by ThePancakeLady
Typonese, always typonese

[Leeanda]

1 hour ago, ThePancakeLady said:

It doesn't. I assumed it was fixed because I haven't encountered i any stuck/dancing-in-place birds since the last hotfix- but it was a random thing that didn't always happen (on Steam or XBox) and not everyone saw consistently. So, apologies- I should know better then to assume. The weired audio (hearing ptarmigans where there are none) is new for me on both platforms though- not something I recall encountering before the last hotfix. Wondering if they are separate bugs, or part of the same bug. Kinda thinking this thread should be in Technical Discussions instead of in TFTFT Discussions.

Yeah, I've seen that too, in several different regions- flying usually close to (away from) but not right at a nesting site. And I agree- I like it. It's a nice detail that feels right.

No problem 😊.   I just thought I'd missed it and still had the bug..     

I hear them all the time but I think there's a few other things that can sound pretty similar sometimes, especially when it's windy.

[AdamvR]

I believe there are a lot more ptarmigans now in the game, than when they were introduced, I ran in them everywhere in my current playthrough. And very much appreciated the little ones:)
They can even reach peaks, where no other food sets foot 😉 
Also I think their behaviours have adapted: if one is startled, it might fly around and land a little further again.
I loved all these changes.
 

Edited September 8 by AdamvR