Battle Royale graphical bug (corruption terrain)

:play_button: GAME INFORMATION

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  • GAME BUILD #: 101.103.54800.0 (#185872) 25464371
  • GAME PLATFORM: Steam
  • OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 10

:play_button: ISSUE EXPERIENCED

:backhand_index_pointing_down: DESCRIBE THE ISSUE IN DETAIL (below). LIMIT TO ONE BUG PER THREAD.

The corruption terrain in Battle Royale mode no longer appears. Units, terrain, and buildings are destroyed, but no visual indication (neither red terrain nor black terrain) appears, making it impossible to see the oncoming corruption, except by looking at the minimap. This significantly breaks this mode which is very unfortunate since we are launching a tournament using this mode. I suspect the latest update of causing this problem as it was fine before.

:play_button: FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

:backhand_index_pointing_down: How often does the issue occur? CHOSE ONE; DELETE THE REST!

  • 100% of the time / matches I play (ALWAYS)
  • happens regardless of whether I have mods enabled or not.

:play_button: REPRODUCTION STEPS

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Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:

  1. Host a skirmish or multiplayer lobby and set the game mode to Battle Royale

  2. Pick any map; any number of players.

  3. Start the game and watch the progressing corruption and notice no visual change to terrain.

:play_button: EXPECTED RESULT

:backhand_index_pointing_down: What was SUPPOSED to happen if the bug you encountered were not present?

One could see terrain changed to the corruption terrain

:play_button: IMAGE

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A youtube livestream of the problem (also confirmed with several other games and standard settings) is available here at a relevant timestamp (but one can see the problem throughout the video linked) :

:play_button: GAME FILES (SAVE / RECORDING)

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  • No file attached; it can be generated with ease
bump. Hopefully this gets fixed soon

Same exact issue 100% of the time. Running same game build, game platform, and Windows 10 Pro Version 22H2 OS Build 19045.7725

You can see on the mini map that the map is closing in, but you cannot see it in the normal gameplay, your units and buildings just die.

This issue is being tracked, thanks for the reports.