I guess I’m mostly just hoping I’m not the only one this happens to.
I’ll see it fall to earthHyrule, follow the beacon, and when I get close and it switches from “no physics” mode to “collectable item” mode, it’s just not there. I’m pretty sure what’s actually happened is that it’s under the ground. I think it may be more likely to happen if the “meteorite” hits a steep surface.
Is this an issue for anybody else? Two of the last three I’ve gone to collect were uncollectable because of this.
I’ve had a couple I swear despawned on me. One time I even saw another star fall after. I’m guessing they’re hitting something they can’t actually land on, like water.
It did not yet happen to me in TotK, but I’ve had the exact same issue in BotW so many times … and people always tried to tell me “it was morning so of course it despawned” (nope, middle of the night!) or “it landed in a lake or mud, so it couldn’t spawn” (nope, definitely rocky terrain. I honestly needed video proof so people back on reddit would even consider that it might be an actual glitch instead of a player mistake.
tl;dr - you’re not alone.
Yup. That video’s exactly what’s happened to me in TotK recently.
And it’s interesting to me that in your case, just as in the last two times it’s happened to me, the spot where the star fragment landed was on a little ridge overlooking a cliff.
Surely the star fragment is just under the terrain. I bet if someone managed to clip through the terrain, they could get it. Makes me want to find a glitch and go after one of these.
And it’s entirely possible I’ve seen this happen in BotW as well and just don’t remember. Unfortunate they didn’t patch it. ('Cuz I need to fully upgrade my Mask of Awakening. I neeeeeeed it.)
Thanks for weighing in.
