I wanted to put in a little work on shotgun peeks, so for the first time in a long while, I tried to activate the firing range bots. It turns out that this feature is broken. Every time one activates the Easter egg, one becomes glitched, stuck in place on the platform unable to move, with the sole option of exiting back to the lobby. I don't have time right now to go back and test if 3rd person is working correctly. But I have done that as recently as a week ago, so I believe that the bot activation is the only feature broken ATM. My suspicion is that this occurred at the same time as when the bots were moved forward from their previous position at the beginning of the season.

I get this issue every time I activate the easter egg also. Like Cheese said - If you just change characters, you are unstuck and everything works fine.

Firing Range Bot Activation Broken

12 Replies

Cheese9Man
3 years ago
@pandareno1999 I believe mokey or skeptation made a video and said to just change legends when you’re stuck.

On the other hand, why do we still have to do an “easter egg” to activate the bots? It should just be button in the open just like those bangalore challenges.
NickBeam27
3 years ago
I get this issue every time I activate the easter egg also. Like Cheese said - If you just change characters, you are unstuck and everything works fine.
XHelperZ
Hero+
3 years ago
I've seen some other reports of this a long time back.
Seems like when you die that the game tries to put you on the ground properly, most likely to avoid glitching out of the map. (Ironically enough it makes glitching out of the firing range possible again)
You can get teleported through the floor and get stuck in it, in some cases the game is still able to calculate the floor, sometimes teleporting you further away to a lower point in the map.
hayhor
Hero
3 years ago
@Cheese9Man This. I don't use the firing range because I cannot be bothered to do this. For me the firing range is basically arenas. They could remove it and I wouldn't care.
Xubunnytwo
3 years ago
I for one use the firing range to warm up. I don't think it is fair to make other players suffer in arenas without doing some stretches first. So I would care, so should you, if I ever end up on your team in an arena.
Cheese9Man
3 years ago
@hayhor Gun run was the best firing range they’ve made. LOL.
pandareno1999
Hero+
3 years ago
Thanks, gents. I could have sworn that I had exhausted this option with no luck. I wonder if perhaps this fix does not work every single time. Anyway, solved I guess.
hayhor
Hero
3 years ago
@Xubunnytwo Don't get me wrong. I think they should make it easy to turn on. And they should make the bots better or provide waves of bots you control the difficulty of. I'm saying as it is I don't see the point. I find shooting the bots are nothing like shooting real players.
hayhor
Hero
3 years ago
@Cheese9Man Gun run and control as both the best practice ranges for sure.
pandareno1999
Hero+
3 years ago
@hayhor I think they are useful for very inexperienced players, or for specific practice, like as I mentioned shotgun peeks. This was the first time I'd tried activating them in a couple months at least.

What I like the range for is practicing very specific gun skills. For example, I've improved tremendously from shooting the far targets for, say, 200+ dmg with an R99 or CAR. This allows me to deal significant damage to a player from 50M with an SMG when necessary. Mostly I spend a period of time working on Verhulst's aim training exercises and grinding Scout of Action, both of which are mainly about quick target acquisition or re-acquisition - skills that I have found pay off strong dividends in game - and keeping sharp at recoil control.