Question on mines disappearing if player joins late

[ralfidude]

It was brought to my attention last night from a fellow player that apparently if you put down a mine, and mark it, all players will see the mine when the mine was layed there as they were in game. BUT, any player that joins the game AFTER the mine was set, will not see the mine, but the mine marker will be on their map. Is that true?

[snooggums]

It was brought to my attention last night from a fellow player that apparently if you put down a mine, and mark it, all players will see the mine when the mine was layed there as they were in game. BUT, any player that joins the game AFTER the mine was set, will not see the mine, but the mine marker will be on their map. Is that true?

Yes. I believe it is a BF2 issue, not PR specific.

[ralfidude]

Has this been around since the begging of time, or was it due to the 1.5 patch?

[NyteMyre]

I remember reading that yeah, but it's not on the buglist

[snooggums]

Has this been around since the begging of time, or was it due to the 1.5 patch?

As far as I know BF2 shipped with this issue.

[LeadMagnet]

It's a bf2 issue that was never addressed.

[fuzzhead]

Added this to the vbf2 bugs list, yes known issue, its been like that for long time, dont know if it can be fixed in pr or not, but its not a huge issue.

[Rissien]

Not like ppl look where they are driving on insurgency anyways. How many ppl drive through intersections that are litterally minefeilds with 10 or mor markers.

[TheLean]

So what happens if a newly connected player walks over a grenade trap that he cant see, is it KABOOM or nothing?

[ralfidude]

Nono, its kaboom, but damn... iv been playing since 0.4 and i never heard about this, lol. it explains ALOT of those mysterious deaths that were reported as mine kills but i never saw a mine. Yep, im gonna have to tone myself down and the other admins about those mines now.... Thnx for clearing that up.