Helicopter Flare Bug (Kinda major)

[serfma]

Description:
While I was playing on Al Basrah (I think Alternative layer, whichever with the helicopters) I noticed a pretty huge bug. If I dispersed all of my flares in either helicopters I could not use any flares again even after re-arming or re-entering the helicopter. I believe blowing up the helicopter allowed flares to be used again, didn't test that.

Steps to Reproduce:
Unload your flares until it reaches 0. Re-arm and try using flares again.

Screenshots / Video:
None required, just unload flares and you're incapable of using flares after that.

Tested On:
Al Basrah, INS, Alternative layer

Patch v1.3.1

[camo]

Thanks for the report although this has been a very well known bug since 1.0.

[Spook]

btw you cannot just reproduce that, emptying your flares works fine in most cases. This issue only happens rarely and alot of thing were already tried to fix it without success so far. It seems like a network-issue, with server and client not being able to sync the flare count correctly anymore. Did you play on a non-american server when this happened by any chance?

[Psyrus]

Incidentally, during my own tests, I have noticed it only happens on the second chopper that spawns, or at least not the first and third ones (from a single spawner).

If anyone can refute that with proof I'm happy to say I am wrong, but it has been a consistent experience of mine thus far.

[Spook]

I think I can refute that, I was able to reproduce the bug constantly back when our PR testserver was extremely laggy. On Beirut we were able to cause the flarebug on every cow after a couple of tries and all of them were fresh.

[DC_K]

I second with camo with spook, you can rtb with 1 or 2 sets left and sometimes you may still get the glitch. best thing to do is try to go with some flares left and once you're over the repair bay and it says it's full, spam it for a bit and empty 2 clips just to be sure and wait for the reload. i think the only way of overcoming this glitch is to avoid hitting 0, but there's still the chance it'll happen before it even reaches that

[serfma]

btw you cannot just reproduce that, emptying your flares works fine in most cases. This issue only happens rarely and alot of thing were already tried to fix it without success so far. It seems like a network-issue, with server and client not being able to sync the flare count correctly anymore. Did you play on a non-american server when this happened by any chance?

Oh odd, since the Lynx pilot said he encountered it, I tried it and instantly wasted all my flares and couldn't use them again. Luck I guess?

[Spook]

I was talking about getting on a server, emptying your flares and be able to reproduce the bug. Once it happens its likely that it'll happen on the same round again of course. But generally its a rare bug.

Also:

Did you play on a non-american server when this happened by any chance?

[Spook]

double post###

[serfma]

Did you play on a non-american server when this happened by any chance?

Didn't notice this question. I was on Bravo Hotel Insurgency. I don't see how being on a non-american server would affect anything. (Besides ping which I now assume what you meant)

[Arab]

Does the bug happen on co-op/local mode where it's offline?

[Spook]

Never heard of it happening offline.

[Arab]

I'll see what I can do with this.