Zeus - Exiting remote control while the AI character is inside a vehicle breaks racks and intercom #1267
Description
Mods
- Arma 3:
2.12.150779 - CBA:
3.15.8.220912 - ACRE2:
2.11.0.1054 - ACE3:
3.15.2
Description:
Zeus remote control - exiting remote control while the AI character is inside a vehicle causes vehicle rack radios and intercom radios to be bugged for the player character and other remotely controlled AI characters.
Steps to reproduce:
- Spawn a vehicle (I tested both Eden editor and Zeus spawning). I spawned a HEMTT truck just to show that it happens, even if the vehicle used to "activate" the bug doesn't need to have a radio nor intercom.
- Remote control an AI character (both inside a vehicle or spawned outside).
- Exit remote control while the AI character you control is inside a vehicle.
- Enter another vehicle (one with a rack radio or intercom radio) as a player character or another AI character.
- Try to use rack radio (either select the "use" option in the ACE rack radio menu or select work / monitor A on the intercom panel).
- On the rack radio / intercom UI, the "DASH R/T" text will briefly turn white...
- ... and then, in the rack radio scenario: the rack radio UI will disappear and reappear after a second. "DASH" text will be gray, and you won't be able to use the radio from the rack;
In the intercom scenario: intercom text UI will disappear and reappear after you close the intercom panel UI. "CREW R/T" text will be white, but "DASH" text will be gray, and you won't be able to use the radio from the intercom / rack. - In the brief time while the text is white, you can use the racked radio, but that ability will end the second the text stops being white.
Expected behavior:
Exiting remote control of an AI character inside a vehicle should not render rack radios in other vehicles unusable for the player character and other remotely controlled AI characters.
Workaround:
- Exit the remote control while the AI character is outside the vehicle to avoid the bug in the first place.
How to temporarily fix the bug:
- Enter Zeus mode. Select the AI character with which you activated the bug and put him outside the vehicle. (Killing him inside or destroying / despawning the vehicle won't work and will make the bug unfixable.) You can then put him back inside by clicking and dragging him back into the vehicle.
- Or remote control the same AI character you activated the bug with, exit the vehicle, and leave the remote control.
- Upon again doing the steps to reproduce, the issue will reappear and will work identically.
Where did the issue occur?
- Self-Hosted Multiplayer
Log Files:
- https://pastebin.com/9WuGY0cu
- https://pastebin.com/H3q7v9P1 [I only tested this bug for like 3 last days]
Additional context:
- I can confirm this bug is not only on my end because I asked my friend to reproduce this bug, and it behaved as described here.
- The bug does not occur after exiting the mission and restarting it, but after doing the same thing, the bug will return.
- Occurrence chance for me (and my friend) when following the aforementioned instructions: 100%
- I didn't have a chance to test if this bug affects anything else besides not being able to use rack radios / intercom radios in vehicles (like, for example, actual intercom communication with other players)
What I tested and didn't work:
- Disconnecting from the intercom before exiting the remote control without leaving the vehicle.
- Switching the radio off before exiting the remote control without leaving the vehicle.
- Setting different options in the intercom panel UI (setting work or monitor to any options, push-to-talk, v/o, volume) before exiting the remote control without leaving the vehicle.
- Dying and respawning after the bug was activated
- Deleting unit and vehicle I used to activate the bug
- Killing the unit or destroying the vehicle I used to activate the bug (destroying the vehicle kind of worked a couple of times because the AI character exited the vehicle the moment it blew up)
- Using units and vehicles spawned before and after activating the bug.
- Restarting TS3 plugin
- Turning off TS3 and starting it again