Severe Frame Lag During Extended Korlok Tyrant Weed Fights

Status:	Pending Moderation
Priority:	High
Added by:	Clockwork on November 4, '26
Assigned to:	Unassigned
Due date:
Reported for:	S06.04

Steps to Reproduce

1. Find a Korlok Tyrant Weed
2. Initiate the fight
3. Keep killing Sprouts for an extended period of time
4. Do not kill the Korlok itself
5. Repeat for an extended period of time (at least a dozen of minutes, depending on your CPU capability and/or fighting area)
6. After killing enough Sprouts, whenever the Korlok reveals its weak spot, the host will experience a brief stutter
7. Keep killing more Sprouts without killing the Korlok itself
8. Keep going long enough and the host will start suffering severe frame lag the moment the Korlok reveals its weak spot
9. In GPU-Z, the GPU usage drops drastically, whereas the CPU usage increases a bit
10. It looks like the lag lasts as long as the game hasn't managed to find where to spawn more Sprouts
11. If you keep going even longer, at some point, the Korlok will remain open forever
12. I suspect if you damage the Korlok but fail to kill it at this precise moment, it will soft lock
13. The reason is: if you inflict too much damage, it closes its weak point, but it hasn't finished computing where to spawn more Sprouts yet
14. And as such, the game will keep lagging forever for the host, as it uses CPU power until the mission is over
15. Included video shows a Korlok remaining open for more than 1 minute and a half while the game is lagging, because it hasn't found where to spawn Sprouts yet
16. The longer the fight lasts, and the further away the Sprouts are spawning from the Korlok, eventually "running out of space"
17. Two things can make this worse: a small fighting area, and a weak CPU

Explanation

Korlok Tyrant Weed is causing severe frame lags for the host when the game cannot compute where to spawn more Korlok Sprouts. This is especially troublesome for a fight that lasts too long, and for a host that has a weaker CPU

Full fight video (23 minutes long) with further details in description: https://youtu.be/GqD_QDWxeoc

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