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damangus's avatar
4 years ago

Hovercraft on buildings?

Product: Battlefield 2042
Platform:PC
Please specify your platform model. PC
AMD or Nvidia Model Number nvidia 1660ti
Enter RAM memory size in GB 32gb
Are you using any software with an overlay? No
Which part of the game is the issue happening in? Multiplayer
Which part of the mode? Conquest
Please select your region North America
On which server did this happen? Kaleidoscope
When did this happen? (dd.mm.yy hh:mm) 11/14/2021
Summarize your bug Hovercraft can go up the side of a building?? Way to go. Nice testing. Can I get a job at EA/Dice? I might do better job than 99.97% of your testers.
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Uh... make it so that hover craft cannot defy the laws of physics and go up the side of buildings????
What happens when the bug occurs? You generally die, because you're not expecting a hovercraft to all of a sudden appear on top of a 32 story building.
What should be happening instead? Hovercraft should perhaps... hover... near the ground... not the side of 32 story building??!!

Hovercraft can go up the side of a building??

Perhaps make it so that hovercraft cannot defy the laws of physics.  Perhaps hovercraft should... hover... near the ground... not the side and top of 32 story building??!!

8 Replies

  • Saw this in videos and saw it first hand last night several times. You shouldn't be able to drive boats up buildings.

  • Saw another "bug" with the hovercraft just a minute ago, Conquest on Orbital.  The hovercraft went up the side of a cliff, flew up in the air and drove around like it was on the ground.  It came down eventually, like a deflating balloon, but it shouldn't "fly" like that!

  • Yup seen this plenty already.

    Also on the Breakaway map, they can climb up the ice walls at F and can climb up the jagged mountain to the top of E. 

    Additionally with hovercrafts, they just need a big nerf to make them less like tanks.

    They should die in 2 shots from an M5. 

    Should remove the ballistic glass and make it easier to kill passengers.

    Restrict the radius of the minigun on top to like 120 degrees instead of about 270 degrees. thats what your side guns are for. 

    It should take longer to accelerate, it shouldnt just take off like the other vehicles. 

    Might be more controvertial but I also dont think you should be able to air-drop vehicles on roof tops. They should make it a no-drop area. 

  • Product: Battlefield 2042
    Platform:PC
    Please specify your platform model. PC
    AMD or Nvidia Model Number 1080 Ti
    Enter RAM memory size in GB 32
    Are you using any software with an overlay? No
    Which part of the game is the issue happening in? Multiplayer
    Which part of the mode? Conquest
    Please select your region Europe
    On which server did this happen?
    When did this happen? (dd.mm.yy hh:mm)
    Summarize your bug Vehicles seem to have their own gravity separate from the planet, applying a downward force from the bottom of the vehicle regradless of orientation.
    How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
    Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Grab a hovercraft and drive up a skyscraper. Unusually successful barrelrolls with other vehicles.
    What happens when the bug occurs? When you have a vehicle that has its own gravity it causes unusual movements when off the ground. Hovercrafts are able to climb skyscrapers because they are not dependent of traction like other vehicles, when you combine that with this isolated gravity they stick to surfaces rather than propel away from them. Then consider other vehicles that tend to spiral in the air as if fighting planetary gravity. Because hovercrafts have no traction dependency you can kite in the air moving left and right while tilted at an angle to elevate the vehicle a bit and glide further rather that falling.
    What should be happening instead? Normal singular gravity and actual vehicle weight not this weird isolated gravity.

    Example of vehicle fighting planetary gravity in the air and barrelrolls:
    https://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield2042/comments/qwl7pm/yes_battlefield_thank_you_battlefield/
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1dxeBQp_SA

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHvE51DS9-A

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ-NisAd2vA

    Hovercrafts:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXOfYPfyohY

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBlCT8jnHBI

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moXI_720RNc

  • The_Tibber's avatar
    The_Tibber
    4 years ago

    Hopefully Game Devs will one day start using relativity based gravity physics rather than newtonian physics.

  • The_Tibber's avatar
    The_Tibber
    4 years ago

    Update: I have also noticed that this isolated gravity affects aircrafts aswell, making take off a bit difficult and some weird skidding behaviour when close to a surface.

    If you hover a jet for example close to a building and somehow knock the aircraft on its side with the bottom of against the building it will drag against the building till you fall to the ground, rather than be able to use the aircraft controls to propel yourself away from the structure and correct yourself.

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