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Moving while rifle up and crouched, then looking left and right quickly
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Description

When crouched and with your rifle up, rapidly aiming left and right will move you in different directions depending on how you do it, which if you are looking left and right rapidly will result in sporadic movement. If done at more realistic reaction speeds it will likely only shift you slightly, but if purposefully done it looks just strange.

This can only occur with your rifle up, and in the normal crouch position, tested with gun down and in other positions, and it doesn't result in any unexpected behavior. It can be done while aiming down the sights or not, with the exact same results. Best replication results are looking back and forth about 90 degrees at a pace of more than 1 back and forths a second. Movement seems less likely if done in a circular motion but does still occur. For easier replication recommend a friend to observe you, pressing yourself up against a wall, or aligning two objects on your screen, then attempting to replicate.

I have heard reports this may even cause you to warp through walls, and though I couldn't replicate that behavior; I did manage to injure myself doing so against certain walls. Doing it too rapidly may only result in you spinning relatively in place, as will only turning in a single direction.

Details

Legacy ID
1983738648
Severity
None
Resolution
Open
Reproducibility
Always
Category
Movement
Steps To Reproduce
  1. Raise your Rifle to a firing position
  2. Crouch
  3. Have an observer look at you or set yourself in a position that will make your movement more obvious, like a wall or aligning two distant objects.
  4. Move your aim left and right approximately 90 degrees, at a rate greater than 1 back and forth motion a second, but less than 10 or so [untested upper limit, best results are at 2 and 3 motions a second].
  5. Do so for 3 or more seconds
  6. Observe your own change of location or have observer relate the information to you.
Additional Information

Believed causes are the stepping motion done while crouched, or possibly a slight offset in how your model is rearranged when turning rapidly.

This bug is unlikely to occur in actual missions, but can be easily done any time you have a weapon, and can sometimes happen accidentally when surprised or when releasing and grabbing particularly sensitive mice, the latter being how I initially noticed it.

Edit: Specified that this only occurs with rifle type [primary] weapons

Event Timeline

bubbanitro edited Additional Information. (Show Details)
bubbanitro set Category to Movement.
bubbanitro set Reproducibility to Always.
bubbanitro set Severity to None.
bubbanitro set Resolution to Open.
bubbanitro set Legacy ID to 1983738648.May 7 2016, 7:18 PM
StJimmy added a subscriber: StJimmy.May 7 2016, 7:18 PM

So this is likely related to this thing? http://feedback.arma3.com/view.php?id=19487

Unlikely to be related to that, as the rotational problem occurs in all stances, not specifically neutral crouch.

Edit: Though after testing it did not occur when wielding a pistol or a launcher, which leads me to believe that it only occurs with the Rifle crouch animation.