There hasn't been an update to anything that would effect DNA for a long time. Like Zach said there is no way a bug like that would have been around this long with no one knowing.
What could have happened... You scanned multiple bodies/objects and had previous DNA in the scanner. You need to right-click to set the auto scan and also remove old DNA. The Scanner can retain multiple DNA patterns so you can scan a bunch of things and when you remove the current item you will start to scan for the next in the list. Was the scanner auto-scanning or did it scan only once? Did you confirm with a rescan/autoscan that the person you killed still had the DNA marker on them? The DNA marker will stay in the world until the scanner rescans. As such if you are not near where the marker shows up by the time you reach the marker the person could have left and someone else could be in that area or even right on the marker. Also make sure to rescan if you don't see the marker pop up directly on someone. As a side note, the recharge of the scanner is increased with distance meaning if the marker shows up really far away you have to wait a long time to scan again. Conversly if you are right on top of the marker it will rescan almost instantly.
If bodies where stacked you could have scanned the wrong body. If a body was moved you could have scanned someone, made the mistake, double check the body you thought you scanned but someone was moving bodies around. Finally most people scan bodies but weapons have DNA as well. You could have mistakenly scanned a nearby item instead of the body.
DNA Scanner Bug?
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There hasn't been an update to anything that would effect DNA for a long time. Like Zach said there is no way a bug like that would have been around this long with no one knowing.
What could have happened... You scanned multiple bodies/objects and had previous DNA in the scanner. You need to right-click to set the auto scan and also remove old DNA. The Scanner can retain multiple DNA patterns so you can scan a bunch of things and when you remove the current item you will start to scan for the next in the list. Was the scanner auto-scanning or did it scan only once? Did you confirm with a rescan/autoscan that the person you killed still had the DNA marker on them? The DNA marker will stay in the world until the scanner rescans. As such if you are not near where the marker shows up by the time you reach the marker the person could have left and someone else could be in that area or even right on the marker. Also make sure to rescan if you don't see the marker pop up directly on someone. As a side note, the recharge of the scanner is increased with distance meaning if the marker shows up really far away you have to wait a long time to scan again. Conversly if you are right on top of the marker it will rescan almost instantly.
If bodies where stacked you could have scanned the wrong body. If a body was moved you could have scanned someone, made the mistake, double check the body you thought you scanned but someone was moving bodies around. Finally most people scan bodies but weapons have DNA as well. You could have mistakenly scanned a nearby item instead of the body.