11 replies to this topic

[Gwydion Ward]

Ok.. short and sweet of it.

ECM + Maps that need Thermal or NV + No 'friendly' marker over mech's = game is pretty much unplayable as you cant tell who to shoot at and who not to shoot at.

And before anyone else says it.. YES i know this only affects friendlies.. and the rule of thumb to follow is "if its not red dont shoot" Just to be safe.

But again... Throw ECM into that.. and NONE of the enemies have the red Doritos's... combine that with the bug.. and that AS7 looking at you could be either an enemy OR a friendly.

Was just in a match and the ONLY friendlies on my entire side that had Doritos's above their heads... were my own lance. All 8 others had none. + the enemy had 2 or 3 ECM mech's... so yea.... spent the entire match having no idea if the mech im looking at could be shot at or not without killing a friendly.


Someone lemme know when the game is playable again?

Edited by ShadowWard, 23 August 2014 - 05:06 PM.

[Joseph Mallan]

How about now?

[Y E O N N E]

The game is playable now.

I've had that glitch happen to me, too. It's not a common thing.

[Bartholomew bartholomew]

I have seen it several times today. Bug is really up today.

[Lil Cthulhu]

Apologize in advance and start blasting limbs off.

[Ace Selin]

The bugs happened to me like 6 times in the past few days, its definitely around and really needs to be fixed.

[lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol]

This glitch sucks mighty ass. Been happening the past few matches recently where the Friendly targeting never came back on mechs at all. To the Jenner and Hunchback that was on my team... I'm very sorry for attacking, but once it clicked that you were within range and should have shown up regardless of ECM that's why I stopped.

So sincere apologies to all if I attack you or have done so.

Edited by 00ohDstruct, 23 August 2014 - 07:33 PM.

[Scratx]

I think I encountered it once in the last few months.

It's definitely not a common thing. It may be related to specific player connections, perhaps?

Regardless, game is quite playable right now, I find HDR darkening out night conditions and effectively blinding you to be far more nefarious than a random glitch. Or the bad framerates I get on some of the older maps.

There's a reason I don't play around with lights much these days, those 170kph things really demand good framerate to be usable.

[Koniving]

I've had 7 team kills as a result of this bug. Earlier in the day, it happened every single match with 1 to 6 people without signatures.

Even had one where I spotted someone in a Kitfox with an ECM arm and went to shoot, but was like "...that's not what I'd be doing in his position." So 3 other team mates shot him instead, and in team chat we see "W t f are you doing!? Stop shooting me."

I'm just seeing this as one more reason why ECM shouldn't remove signatures.

[Livewyr]

Koniving, on 23 August 2014 - 08:47 PM, said:

I've had 7 team kills as a result of this bug. Earlier in the day, it happened every single match with 1 to 6 people without signatures.

Even had one where I spotted someone in a Kitfox with an ECM arm and went to shoot, but was like "...that's not what I'd be doing in his position." So 3 other team mates shot him instead, and in team chat we see "W t f are you doing!? Stop shooting me."

I'm just seeing this as one more reason why ECM shouldn't remove signatures.

They let you get to 7?

[Gwydion Ward]

For those saying the bug dosnt happen often. Before i typed this thread.. It happened 6 times in a row, the final one is when the only friendlies i could see were my own lance. 8 out of 12 mech's did not have an IFF tag over them.

Prior to that, it was 1 or 2... a few games later 4 mech's (one lance) then i got hit with that 8-person mess.

Like most, i had seen it happen once or twice every few dozen matches. But today... game after game after game... constantly had that issue. Threw in the towel with the 8 IFF screwup.

[Scratx]

ShadowWard, on 23 August 2014 - 10:17 PM, said:

For those saying the bug dosnt happen often. Before i typed this thread.. It happened 6 times in a row, the final one is when the only friendlies i could see were my own lance. 8 out of 12 mech's did not have an IFF tag over them.

Prior to that, it was 1 or 2... a few games later 4 mech's (one lance) then i got hit with that 8-person mess.

Like most, i had seen it happen once or twice every few dozen matches. But today... game after game after game... constantly had that issue. Threw in the towel with the 8 IFF screwup.

If it happens that much to you, consistently, contact MWO's support. There may be a reason for this, and they may have some idea that can help you. Or, perhaps, at least give PGI more data points to help them fix it...

I'm being brutally honest with you, it hardly ever happens to me!