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Description

Magazines are disappearing upon reload. It has a 100% fail rate if you have more than 2 mags. Sometimes if you have only 1 or 2 mags, they stop disappearing. But if you add or remove a scope or suppressor then reload again it goes back to disappearing. Also if you drag a mag from a weapon into your inventory, it disappears immediately. I tried both modded weapons and default Arma 3 weapons. No errors are showing in our logs. This is a MP server issue only. When I test in the editor with the same mods, the issue does not happen. This appears to be a server side issue strictly.

This was tested with both modded weapons and default Arma 3 weapons with the same result.

Details

Severity
Major
Resolution
Open
Reproducibility
Always
Operating System
Windows 11 x64
Category
Multiplayer
Steps To Reproduce

Have more than 3 mags in your inventory.

Reload your gun.

Sometimes the issue stops when you get down to 1 or 2 mags in inventory.

Issue persists if you remove a scope or attach a scope to your gun then reload again.

Dragging a magazine from a weapon to your inventory causes the same issue. The dragged mag disappears.

Additional Information

We disabled battleye just in case a filter was clearing the mags and it made no difference. We have made no mod changes or updates. This issue began in version 2.18 of Arma 3 and was immediately mass reported by our community.

Event Timeline

Olsson added a subscriber: Olsson.Oct 10 2024, 6:05 AM
cr4qsh0t added a subscriber: cr4qsh0t.EditedOct 10 2024, 4:04 PM

I concur, me and two mates confirm to have this issue as well, both on my custom mission and on Scruffy & NeoArmageddon's co10_Escape dedicated mission.
Since it happens in vanilla Arma 3's inventory handling, without any mission-specific scripts involved, I doubt either me or other mission editors are responsible.
I happen to have it recorded on video, but it's somewhere inside the six hours recorded yesterday, and it seems to occur commonly enough that the video is probably unnecessary.
Personally, as a developer myself, I have a suspect it's somehow related to the two new EventHandlers added regarding magazine (un)loaded, but that is just speculation on my part.

This never occured prior to the 2.18 update (or was rare enough to have never entered conscious thought).

EDIT: My current workaround is to drag mag from gun to ground, then drag from ground back to inventory. Somehow, "touching ground" "resets the state."

gardonw removed a subscriber: gardonw.Oct 10 2024, 4:25 PM
He-Man added a subscriber: He-Man.Oct 11 2024, 3:02 PM

The bug also "works" with only one mag in inventory. See the single MP7 magazine in the uniform here.

Youtube: Arma 3 v2.18 - Reload Bug

mrzorn added a subscriber: mrzorn.Oct 12 2024, 10:50 PM

Last night was my community's first operation since the SPOTREP. Immediately I started receiving complaints about magazines going missing, so regularly that as noted above, I doubt video evidence is necessary. I can grab some clips from tonight's operation if necessary.

No previous reports of this issue prior to the release of 2.18- now it is happening more often than not.

I can reproduce the issue on the Gruppe Adler dedicated server.
But I don't have the initially mentioned 100% failure rate.

Leopard20 added a subscriber: Leopard20.EditedOct 13 2024, 2:08 AM

The issue is reportedly fixed on the profiling branch. For now use the profiling branch on both the server and clients until a hotfix is released.
See the #perf_prof_branch channel on Arma Platform Discord server for more info.

I'm seeing reports on Discord of players using dupe exploits in the prof branch with the mag fix. Can anyone confirm this?

Using "getUnitLoadout" returns different results if run client / serverside. Something is causing the inventory of the client to desync on reaload.

dedmen changed the task status from New to Feedback.Oct 23 2024, 4:50 PM

Just tested with the new update. The first magazine I reloaded disappeared. It was a full magazine. I then fired my gun. Several reloads are now working fine. However, the first reload if you do not fire still disappears.

The issue of dragging magazines from the rifle into your backpack and the mag disappearing is still happening at a 100% fail rate.

Pretty sure I also had a mag still disappear after the update, although it seems to occur much rarer now.