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I have replicated this 3 times. On the map Muttrah City (64) (maybe 16?) if you take a transport Huey from the carrier, go to the city, land, switch to the co-pilot's seat, switch back, and fly back to the carrier and land, the back end of the helicopter will fall through the deck, and your nose will be slightly in the air. It will always land like that on the carrier from then on, sometimes taking some damage from the collision.

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I don't have a video, as I don't know of any way to record one.

This is an addittion:

Because the crappy EA flight engine actually requires a helicopter to thrust downwards, rather than just being affected by gravity, when pressing s, or reducing a joystick throttle to 0, you shove yourself into whatever surface you are sitting on.

i've only noticed that glitch when pressing S while landing, so you thrust yourself into the carrier.

Well, I don't think it matters because I don't think pilots switch to the co-pilot seat each time they land in Muttrath city. ( Maybe because in danger of fire ? )

I don't think they have to fix the bug since only 1 / 10 will make notice.

I think you mean this, this happened without me actually switiching seats, the helicopter then continued and blew up

So don't do it, noone does it so don't start with it either.

Okay you're right, but that's just the way I managed to reacreate it. That's not the only way it will be triggered.

I've been doing some more experimenting, and it seems this glitch is caused when you use downward thrust on the ground, as it actually shoves your chopper into it. As I use a joystick, it's pure instinct to reduce the throttle to zero when I touch down, even though zero is actually in the middle. If and when I do this, I often can't take off again, as one of the landing skids is stuck in the ground, and I just tip over instead of rising.

That may be a problem I guess.

hiberNative wrote:i've only noticed that glitch when pressing S while landing, so you thrust yourself into the carrier.

I get this, is there any cure? Also I get a sort of mouse twitch which on the ground causes a 90 degree turn but causes carnage in helis (if i'm high I can survive, but otherwise death!!) Would disabling the mouse for heli flying and using the arrows cure this?

I don´t remember this ever happening to me, but I have seen it happen quite a few times, I think it just really has to do with how you land.

pressing s? doesn't everyone do that?

why do you press S when you're on the ground? press S until you are near the ground, then cruise to a nice touchdown.

Yes I've just found that out practising (still a bug though). Also, what about the mosue twitch? Is that just a ping spike or is it something I can fix? (I get 30-60 on Uk servers, ~120 on tactical gamer etc.)

Nick The Bubble wrote:Yes I've just found that out practising (still a bug though). Also, what about the mosue twitch? Is that just a ping spike or is it something I can fix? (I get 30-60 on Uk servers, ~120 on tactical gamer etc.)

I think the twitch is PB making a hard drive check, if you type in console, pb_sleep 500 it will make pb check only every 7-8 seconds. It went away with a new PB setup build.