Pathfinding randomly broke after 6 months - roblox issue, or my issue?

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Hey there, developers!

Recently, my nextbot-like chase game has randomly had this huge bug, where the entities don’t move occasionally. I checked the console, and what do you know? I get warnings that read:

“PathFindingService: Path too long.”

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This seems like a normal error - but the caveat is that I am not far away from the entities at all. Infact, sometimes I’m less than 10 studs away from them, and I still get this warning thrown at me.

I don’t know if this is a ping issue (probably not, my game gets normal ping), or a roblox bug, or maybe my code is flawed?

I didn’t want to make a bug report about this - because again, it could be my code, but I didn’t touch the script at all.

Here’s the code for anybody wondering (messy, yes I know):

local ps = game:GetService("PathfindingService") -- get this service

local ts = game:GetService("TweenService")

local speed = 0.4

local info = TweenInfo.new(speed, Enum.EasingStyle.Linear, Enum.EasingDirection.In, 0, false)

repeat task.wait() until game:GetService("ContentProvider").RequestQueueSize == 0 -- wait until the game fully loads

local closestDistance = math.huge
local maxDistance = 500
local closestPlayer = nil
local target

local newPos = nil

local brickSignal = game.Workspace:WaitForChild("brickSignal")

task.wait(3)

local brickSpeed = 0.4

local FlyTween = ts:Create(script.Parent, TweenInfo.new(2, Enum.EasingStyle.Linear, Enum.EasingDirection.InOut, 0, false), {Position = newPos})


local Direction = script.Parent.CFrame.LookVector

while task.wait() do
	-- run everything below forever
	--task.wait(5)

	--local plrAmt = #game.Teams.Playing:GetPlayers()
	--local brickAmount = math.floor(plrAmt / 4)
	--if plrAmt >1 then

	--	for i = 1,brickAmount,1 do

	--		local clones = script.Parent:Clone()
	--		clones.CFrame = script.Parent.CFrame * CFrame.new(math.random(-100,100),math.random(-100,100),math.random(-100,100))
	--		if game.Workspace:FindFirstChild("MapFolder", true) then
	--			script.Parent = game.Workspace.MapFolder
	--		else
	--			script.Parent = script.Parent.Parent
	--		end

	--		break

	--	end


	--end


	if brickSignal.Value == 1 then

		--task.wait(0.1) -- if you don't want to put too much pressure on the server, add a small cooldown

		closestDistance = math.huge -- reset the closest distance so that we can find it over and over
		closestPlayer = nil

		for i,v in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do -- get every player in the game
			if v and v.Character and v.Character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart") then
				local distance = (v.Character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart").Position - script.Parent.Position).Magnitude -- get every player's distances

				--print(distance) -- debug

				if distance <= closestDistance and distance and v.Character:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid").Health > 0 and v.Team ~= game.Teams.Lobby then -- if the distance of the player is smaller than the previous closest distance, then run the code below
					closestDistance = distance

					humanoid = v.Character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid")


					closestPlayer = v.Character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")



					--print(closestDistance.. " is the closest distance")

					script.Parent.Orientation = closestPlayer.Orientation

				end
			end


		end

		if closestPlayer and humanoid and humanoid.Health > 0 then
			--target = closestPlayer.Position + closestPlayer.CFrame.LookVector * humanoid.WalkSpeed / 2

			--target = CFrame.new(script.Parent.Position, closestPlayer.Position).LookVector

			target = closestPlayer.Position + closestPlayer.AssemblyLinearVelocity 

		elseif not closestPlayer or not (humanoid.Health > 0) or not humanoid or closestDistance > maxDistance then
			target = script.Parent.Position
			script.Parent.Position = script.Parent.Position
		end
		-- the target to pathfind to


		local path = ps:CreatePath() -- create a path

		local pathfind = nil


		local yay, nay = pcall(function()
			pathfind = path:ComputeAsync(script.Parent.Position, target) -- create a path between this npc's humanoid root part and the closest player's humanoid root part
		end)

		if nay then
			warn(nay.." Distance: "..(script.Parent.Position - target).Magnitude)

			--game.Chat:Chat(script.Parent, "better run", Enum.ChatColor.Red)
			--script.Parent["Audio/stone_drag"].Playing = true

			--FlyTween:Play()
			
			
			pathfind = path:ComputeAsync(script.Parent.Position, script.Parent.Position)
		end

		for z,waypoint in pairs(path:GetWaypoints()) do -- get all of the waypoints
			local newerPos = waypoint.Position

			local bestTween = ts:Create(script.Parent, info, {Position = newerPos})

			bestTween:Play()
			
			FlyTween:Cancel()

			--script.Parent.CFrame *= CFrame.new(Direction.X, Direction.Y, Direction.Z)

			task.wait(math.clamp(brickSpeed, 0.05, 2)/closestDistance)
		end
		if path.Status == Enum.PathStatus.Success then
			--print("i'm coming for you")
			script.Parent["Audio/stone_drag"].Playing = false
			FlyTween:Cancel()
		else

			if closestPlayer then
				newPos = closestPlayer.Position
			else
				newPos = script.Parent.Position
			end


			local bestTween = ts:Create(script.Parent, TweenInfo.new(2, Enum.EasingStyle.Linear, Enum.EasingDirection.InOut, 0, false), {Position = newPos})

			--game.Chat:Chat(script.Parent, "better run", Enum.ChatColor.Red)
			script.Parent["Audio/stone_drag"].Playing = true

			bestTween:Play()
			FlyTween:Cancel()

		end

		path.Blocked:Connect(function(b)
			warn("path blocked")
		end)

		--if closestDistance <= 10 then
		--	humanoid:TakeDamage(100)
		--end




		--end

	end
end

Thank you developers, and have a nice day!

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i personally think it’s a roblox issue

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