Persistent UFO

[gglenn1966]

Okay, so I made the mistake of playing in a lobby with one other player last night. He eventually spawned a UFO outside of Eclipse Towers, at which point I closed the session because I did not want to deal with hackers. The problem is, the UFO is still showing up in my sessions tonight. I assume there is some client-side cache I need to delete. Does anyone know where it is? Thanks.

[Gaffa]

Well which platform are you on - PC, Xbox360 or PS3? I'll assume one of the latter two.

Edited October 6, 2017 by Gaffa™

[gglenn1966]

Hi Gaffa, I'm on PC. I didn't think spawning in arbitrary assets was possible on the consoles. Thanks.

[gglenn1966]

Okay, it turns out I just needed to close the client and restart. It was just paused in SP mode before, which is apparently not sufficient. I do recall a time in the past where people would spawn in a bunch of miscellaneous junk into your garage, or attach a Christmas tree to you character, which was persistent and required deletion of some local files to resolve, possible in AppData, or something like that. I figured this was a return of that scenario. Thanks for your help.

[Gaffa]

I do recall a time in the past where people would spawn in a bunch of miscellaneous junk into your garage, or attach a Christmas tree to you character, which was persistent and required deletion of some local files to resolve, possible in AppData, or something like that. I figured this was a return of that scenario.

 

Well I'm glad you've got it sorted, but I'm sorry - I think you've made this part up here. There's never been a time on PC where that's happened. I don't even think it's possible on console, because how does one "hard code" a spawned-in object to someone's online game after they've turned that game off?

 

Anything anyone had ever deleted in the past wouldn't have contained coordinates for the position and height of the object, nor would it have said what model hash the thing was, or the object ID etc etc, so I find it hard to believe there was any data along those lines which required something to be deleted in order to get rid of a prop or object.