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Anyone else every now and again unable to loot something? For me, there will sometimes be a weapon or item laying around and despite having an icon above it when I scan, I am unable to pick it up. This also tends to happen more often than not with drones as well.
This is where it's evident I don't think there was much testing. I can only speak for two engines but I imagine they're all pretty similar. To get physics to happen you need a physics component which will wrap around the object. To interact with an object at whatever range you need to cast rays. Physics components often block rays so a common practice is to remove the physics component when the object dies. The physics component is still obviously attached because you can walk on top of a dead drone, not through it, and that's what I think is interfering with looting.
It's like when you dismantle a weapon mod. There appears to be no function call to display the updated weapon mod item list. As if no one tested this?