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Anonymous
8 years ago

Not working: Thermal Binoculars, Scan Dart, NV optics, Boba Fett, Lando, Bossk

Product: Star Wars Battlefront II
Platform:PC
What is your issue related to? General
Summarize your bug Not working: Thermal Binoculars and CR2 Night Vision
What is your gamertag/PSN ID/EA Account name? bluefalcon52
How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)
Can you tell us the date (MM/DD/YYYY) that you saw the bug? Since swbf2 was released for preorder players
What time did you see the bug? (HH:MM AM/PM)
In what game mode did the bug occur? Galactic Assault
What is your time zone?
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? If necessary I can take screenshots/capture video
What happens when the bug occurs? Abilities and attachments which outline/highlight enemies for the user and team mates (i.e. Scan Dart, thermal binoculars, etc) do not function as intended. Any trooper or hero which has abilities or attachments that uses thermal signatures (Bossk, Lando, Thermal Binoculars) or other methods (Scan Dart, Lando's Disabler, Boba's For the Hunt) to show nearby enemies' locations are affected.
What do you expect to see? Make the items work properly.
Please select your region North America
AMD or Nvidia Model Number i76700, 16gbRAM, GTX 1060 (notebook)

Product: Star Wars Battlefront II
Platform:PC
What is your issue related to? General
Summarize your bug Not working: Thermal Binoculars and CR2 Night Vision
What is your gamertag/PSN ID/EA Account name? bluefalcon52
How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)
Can you tell us the date (MM/DD/YYYY) that you saw the bug? Since swbf2 was released for preorder players
What time did you see the bug? (HH:MM AM/PM)
In what game mode did the bug occur? Galactic Assault
What is your time zone?
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? If necessary I can take screenshots/capture video
What happens when the bug occurs? When looking through Thermal binoculars and CR2 night vision, enemies are not illuminated hot/bright white. Also, the thermal binoculars cannot see through objects/walls, so this in conjunction with the targets being dark (as with no heat signature) these items are rendered completely useless
What do you expect to see? Make the items work properly.
Please select your region North America
AMD or Nvidia Model Number i76700, 16gbRAM, GTX 1060 (notebook)

[[Added 11/27/17] Here is a list of everything affected by this problem - 

1. Assault:

       - Scan Dart

       - Improved Scan Dart

       - CR2 Night Vision Scope

2. Heavy:

       - FWMB-10K Night Vision Scope

3. Officer:

       - SE-44C Night Vision Scope

4. Specialist:

       - Thermal Binoculars

       - Improved Thermal Binoculars

5. Lando Calrissian:

       - X-8 Thermal Scope (main weapon)

       - Disabler ability

6. Bossk:

        - Predator Instincts thermal vision ability

7. Boba Fett

        - For the Hunt ability

        - Information Sharing (if equipped & used with For the Hunt)

If there are any that I missed feel free to chime in, thanks]]

Nothing came up on "the google," so I am wondering if any others have been experiencing this since Nov 14....

Thermal Binoculars and the CR2 Night Vision scope are used to see heat signatures of targets. During use of these items, targets in your view appear "hot" or bright white against the "cold" (green, thermal binoculars - or - blue, night vision scope) environment. Between 50-75% of the time, targets have no heat signature - they are cold, and indistinguishable (and as such, cannot be seen through objects/walls with the thermal binoculars).

plz fix so can rek teh n00bs kthx

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  • Well, they never fixed these, and guess what? Now Rey's Insight also suffers from this. You did it DICE, instead of fixing a major BUG that affects a multitude of classes and abilities for almost 20 months (1 year and 8 months), you just allowed it to continue disturbing games, and now even overflow to new and old abilities alike. Both the BX Droid Commando and the Arc Trooper are affected by this BUG with their revealing abilities.

    And now even Rey's Insight, one of the only revealing abilities which weren't affected by this is now affected. I'll have a video for this soon as it's a video I'll upload anyway.

    You can't do things right, you keep doing mistake after mistake after mistake. You can't take the programming aspect of this game seriously. The pile of BUGs is overwhelming, and after the terrible launch it's what cripples this game the most.

  • DarthYuri121's avatar
    DarthYuri121
    6 years ago

    Yes, now this happens with Rey in every HvV match. Instead of fixing this BUG, DICE has made it worse

  • This MUST get pinned. A Day 1 BUG, affects countless different Weapons/Abilities, messes with overlays (heat vision, night vision, boba's scan), with outlines (scan dart, rey's insight), and with dots showing in the radar (infiltration, motion scan).

    This has never been fixed, not even improved despite Patch Notes stating otherwise. It has been applied to new abilities (Infiltrator's revealing abilities) and to old ones that were immune to the BUG previously (Rey's Insight).

    Bossk is definetly the one who suffers the most with that because not only his Predatory Instincts is completely unreliable as it may show some enemies but not others, but it also makes the environment so hard to see, that an enemy which isn't shown because of the BUG will blend in with the environment and may kill you from a few feet away, something that would never happen if your heat vision wasn't being used at that time. It's infuriating when a trooper kills you as Bossk right in front of you, but because you relied on a vision ehancing ability you couldn't see him because he was as BLUE as the environment around him.

    Seriously, can't we get a true focus on this BUG for September's update? After DICE made this game a tremendous BUGfest with the Chosen One Update, surprisingly the Disabled Block BUG, the most notorious BUG at that time, got fixed in no time. A BUG which had been in the game since launch, and which I've been trying to help solve for more then a year. This shows how they can manage BUGs if they get prioritized.

    So please DICE, fix this day 1 game breaking BUG, which affects SOOOOOO many abilities and aspects at once. This is definetly the worst and most problematic BUG in this game since release. It has never lost that spot.

  • RogueZeroRendar's avatar
    RogueZeroRendar
    6 years ago

    Maybe Santa has stopped by DICE? Or will it be Fake News again?


    It's not the first time things were stated fixed or improved, and in the past all of these failed. Let us hope they get it right this time.

  • Most of these have been doing fine for me. However, the thermal binoculars were working for a few rounds in arcade mode, and then they didn't. I even restarted the round and it didn't help. I have had some of these other problems, but they seem to have disappeared.

  • JKTJH_sny4_play's avatar
    JKTJH_sny4_play
    6 years ago

    Ok, this problem is really weird. I noticed that Boba's scan ability and the thermal binoculars are having problems. The weird part is, it seems to be map specific. It seems to work on some places like: Kamino, Jakku, and Yavin 4. (These are the few places I've tested in arcade mode) However, they don't work on Endor. (again, this was tested in arcade, so I don't know about anything else). These are the only few places that I've tested. What the heck would be making these things map specific? 

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