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Painy789's avatar
4 years ago

Missing Lock on sound/visual after flares (steps to easily reproduce inside)

Product: Battlefield 2042
Platform:Steam-PC
Please specify your platform model. PC
AMD or Nvidia Model Number 56756746345356
Enter RAM memory size in GB 16
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? all of them
When did this happen? (dd.mm.yy hh:mm) every day thousands of times
Summarize your bug If an aircraft uses its flares a stinger (or any other lock on weapon) can already lock on instantly but no lock on sound or lock on visual is displayed for either the aircraft or the lock on user. Normally the aircraft would display a yellow text saying its being locked on and make a sound while the stinger would show yellow boxes around the aircraft. This is both confusing for the stinger user, because he can then fire instantly after the flare protection weres off with seemingly not needing to lock on and espcially the pilot because he does not get any lock on sound and can therefor easily confuse the incoming missile with a sundance grenade (which in general does not have a lock on before becoming an incoming missle) and ignore the seemingly pretty much harmless threat. This should either be changed so the lock on only starts after the flare protection weres off or by at least correctly informing the lock on user and pilot that the lock on is already happening.
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? use flares in any aircraft and lock on with any lock on and see that it jumps from nothing to fully locked on. the pilot will notice that there is no lock on warning but instantly a locked on already warning.
What happens when the bug occurs? the pilot loses out on a lock on warning and the lock on user doesnt get any feedback that he actually is locking on already.
What should be happening instead? the pilot and stinger user should both get feedback than the lock on process is happening or the lock on process should not happen until the flares wore off

1 Reply

  • @Painy789 I have had similar problems. Mostly the flares not working so xmf user or other lock-on missiles can lock immediatly after using flares

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