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ARMA 3 - OFFICIAL WARLORDS - VEHICLES DESPAWNING
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Description

(Presumably) After the latest patch (2.00 platform update) other players and I frequently notice the sudden disappearance of vehicles that are bought. This happens quite frequently (3~5 times during 5 hours of playtime). This is potentially game-breaking since in the middle of battle your vehicle just despawns and you and your crew die. Sometimes you see an enemies' vehicle disappear too out of nowhere.

It pretty much ruins the experience of Warlords (an otherwise great game mode) because you end up saving your CP for a long time only to see it go up in smoke.

Details

Severity
Major
Resolution
Open
Reproducibility
Random
Operating System
Windows 10 x64
Operating System Version
Windows 10 Education 64-bit (10,0 Build 18363
Category
Multiplayer
Steps To Reproduce
  1. Join any official Warlords server.
  2. Get yourself a vehicle
  3. At some point and time > magic despawn. (it basically seems random)
Additional Information

Personally I've encountered this problem only with ground vehicles (Hunters/ Ifrits, T140K Angara etc.) but teammates have seen their helicopter or jet land and simply vanish, or just die out of thin air mid-flight.

I'm playing vanilla Arma on official servers.

I've only seen this happen after the 2.00 platform update.

Event Timeline

Chyroxis edited Steps To Reproduce. (Show Details)

getPosATL command, which is used in vehicle removal loop, in some cases can return altitude values below -0.4


The code i used to check that:

(vehicle player) spawn { _min = 0; _max = 0; while {true} do { _a = (getPosATL _this) # 2; _min = (_min min _a); _max = (_max max _a); hintSilent format ["Min: %1 Max: %2\n%3", _min, _max, _a]; sleep 0.01; }; };

The offending code appears to be on lines 376-392 in fn_WLInit.sqf in functions_f_warlords.pbo. The code gets a list of all vehicles every 30 seconds and delete those that have a Z value less than -0.4 meters below terrain level.

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Geez added a subscriber: Geez.Nov 28 2023, 10:17 AM