Portal Storm problem?

[Apostolos]

Hey all. I'm kinda new and had a couple questions.  I keep having the game first off just not warning me about the incoming storms.  When they go off, I am usually out working on stuff and everything just instantly changes into nightmare mode.  When I hit T to open my chat, I see the two warning messages that never popped up.  So, my first question is if there is any kind of setting or mod that will force a pop up to say the storm is incoming.

My second Issue is that the last time the storm hit, I was able to kill about 3 of the mobs.  However, when the storm stopped, I went back to loot the bodies but they had all poofed.  Is that normal?  I had thought that the storm mobs were supposed to have better loot, but how can we get it if they disappear when the storm is over?  There is no way I can stop to harvest corpses with all that crap happening.

[LadyWYT]

31 minutes ago, Apostolos said:

My second Issue is that the last time the storm hit, I was able to kill about 3 of the mobs.  However, when the storm stopped, I went back to loot the bodies but they had all poofed.  Is that normal?  I had thought that the storm mobs were supposed to have better loot, but how can we get it if they disappear when the storm is over?  There is no way I can stop to harvest corpses with all that crap happening.

This is normal; most of the time the corpses will disappear after the storm, but occasionally a corpse or two(or a live enemy) will linger. In terms of loot, the monsters that spawn during storms have the same loot tables as they do under normal circumstances. The main benefit of storms in this regard is that they spawn a lot of enemies, and can spawn special enemies like the double-headed drifter and deepslit shiver that drop much better loot than the average opponent. There are similar special enemies that spawn in the deep underground as well, however, it tends to be easier to fight on the surface than underground in many cases.

As for looting the corpses, using a falx to kill monsters will extract some(if not all) of the loot that the monster has, allowing you to just pick it up off the ground. Otherwise, you'll need to learn to be fast with a knife.

36 minutes ago, Apostolos said:

I keep having the game first off just not warning me about the incoming storms.  When they go off, I am usually out working on stuff and everything just instantly changes into nightmare mode.  When I hit T to open my chat, I see the two warning messages that never popped up.  So, my first question is if there is any kind of setting or mod that will force a pop up to say the storm is incoming.

This is not normal at all. You might check the Interface tab of Settings and make sure that you have "Auto show/hide chat" and "Auto open Chat only on current group" turned on, or at least make sure one of them is turned on. If both are turned off though, that might be why the messages aren't popping up.

If both of those options are turned on, the next suspect would be mods, if you are using them, that is. If you're not using mods and on the most recent game version, then it's probably a bug and you'll want to head to the bug tracker to report it. I don't see any reports that indicate that bug exists, but it's happened before so it's not out of the question.

[Dilan Rona]

The mobs that flicker and dissapear, is not synced with time (time being broken being a major part vintage story), so the fact that they dissapear faster after killing them is in line with everything else wrong with whatever calamity fell on the world of Vintage Story.