ArmA 2 Buglist - Content related bugs only

[Beagle 684]

How about the fact that women characters are USELESS?

They can't drive, they cant shoot guns...

I wanted to create a Super Bitch Patrol and equip all those women characters with pistols and snipers and have them ride bikes around.

Like a Tarantino movie.

Is there a way to make them playable.. rather than just moveable?

No there is no way, and it is a litlle bit pointless.

Btw. some women characters can drive some cars. The VAZ cars do work fine.

Remember...women are in this game for ambient civilian life representation. Some special animations make them incompatible with combat.

Most cargo animations are also broken.

What they are for?

Adding a more natural feel, for asking them questions..thats quite better than their complete absence as in ArmA.

[Master gamawa 0]

ok I understand even though that would piss me off if I wanted to play a female character. Them dresses and high heels aren't good enough for war I guess.

Still, it would be kind of cool...

[lowang 2]

Razor two mission failure ending bug

if you fail in this mission then there is a dialogue but it is so fast that you don't have a chance to read it and also there is no audio. I am pretty sure I did not have accelerated time...

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Razor two AI chopper needs IQ boost

Maddox tends to land with his chopper hundred meters away from the requested location even if it is on a big open space and he often crashes into houses and then you cannot use the air support for the rest of the mission. I guess this would apply to all AI air units, but I only experienced this so far.

[PTV-Jobo 820]

Sound Engine

-Test shoot javelin at a tank and when explosion sound is played - turn your head left and right. You hear the sound is not from the location it played at but is following your ear you heard it play out on first.

-Shoot any weapon in first person and turn your head while shooting. You dont hear the shot sounds "from" the weapon but in both ears no matter how you turn your head.

This was not in ArmA1 and must be a bug. Serious one as well. Very serious

Agreed. While I only have the demo for now until my CDWOW order arrives, I can also verify this is the case even in the demo. I turn to the left and the right and notice no change at all--in 1P and 3P views. I really hope this is something that can be fixed. :confused:

[nanorueda 10]

Friendly AI can Kill you?

I don't know if this is a bug

friendly AI has killed me twice.

I have read:

Friendly AI kills you – You can be shot by friendlies as punishment for deliberately attacking civilians, friendly soldiers/vehicles. If you accidentally injure or kill a friendly unit, you are not punished instantly. You usually become a renegade after a series of friendly kills.

But I didn't kill or injure any friendly unit

Thx

[Kalma 0]

I just played coop campaign with two of my friends. We found out that when you play these missions through, next mission doesn't open. Instead the host goes back to last animation or save or even to beginning of the mission and the rest are stuck in the "receiving data"-screen. Not a biggie, we can hax0r those missions open, but it would be nice to get a constant campaign and not been forced to reset the lobby by host, etc.

[Eclipse4349 0]

Searched a bit and didnt see where this had been reported, so here. In Superpowers/ CTI, sometimes the "Tasks" tab on the map screen is completely gone from the menu, which keeps you from being able to select a town to capture, and, as a result, from getting the money for capturing it. Everything is so expensive that this really hinders you from getting anything but the basics.

Have also been in some CTI games where no towns/supply centers or camps around the supply centers are on my map, the map is blank except for the terrain and the grid references.

Both issues seem to happen at random, although the second issue, I think, only happened on one server that I tried to play on. The "tasks menu disappearing" issue has happened on every server I have played in.

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Yes, this happens to me tons of times. I wish the computer voice wouldn't say anything unless I could really see the AI in my sight. Half the time my character announces that there's a man ahead of me somewhere and there never is, or he's behind a building or something. Kinda ruins the fun.

agree. The AI has superhuman xray abilities. Lots of times they will "detect" something halfway around the world, that is not even close to being in eyesight. Not to mention all the times that they "see" someone across a valley let's say, when you can't actually see more than 30 feet in front of you because of all the trees and shrubbery. Are objects in this game transparent to the AI?

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Another capture the island bug, not sure if it happens in other gametypes:

Sometimes when you spawn, you spawn already injured. On a side note, would be nice if HQ's and camps had medical supply stations where you could heal. The camps have ammo and weapons, how about adding medical stations?

[lowang 2]

bugs in manhattan mission:

I was about to fly to Gvozdno, but the chopper flew over the enemy base and I automatically talked through radio that we found it. They told me not to engage them yet and wait for the team boomerang. In about 10minutes team boomerang told through radio that they are there, but I did not want to attack the base yet, so I was rather searching Gvozdno for that woman. I did not find her, but after I wanted to attack enemy base, boomerang team did not respond to the radio message and did not helpe us attacking the base. Also the artillery support option somehow disappeared

[D_O_A 10]

Well i encountered my first game breaking bug. Doing the campaign missions, the objective was to kill a sniper that has another squad pinned down. I switched to the marksman in my squad and climbed up a ladder to get a decent vantage point. I killed the sniper and switched back to team lead. The sniper AI decided to fall off part of the roof onto the lower building, causing him to be injured.

When i tried to drag him, he completely dissapeared, and it looks like i am dragging nothing, if i select stop dragging, he falls through the roof into the building below. I managed to have him fall through to a spot where he was partially hanging out the side of the wall, and dragged him out and used first aid. Now he seems to be permanently incapacitated. Which sucks as i need the whole team with me to trigger the warehouse raid.

The first few missions were great fun :)

[TechnoTerrorist303 10]

In that same "kill the sniper" task I've apparently failed it even though I've shot him myself. Killed the sniper and got told an allied unit had done it ....

[nicklomas 3]

CDF tank drivers, officers, and pilots dont have pistols

[ShaiCZ 10]

In mission I, I rescued Dr.Sova in the village and was ordered to escort him to a hut in the woods.

BUG: Dr.Sova crawled ALL THE WAY!! Took me ca 20 minutes of waiting before he was finally able to crawl to the destination. I tried dragging him, asking him to stop and wait and then follow me again...nothing worked. Pretty annoying;o)

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Again, in mission I, I ran out of ammo and communicated this to the team. Team leader ordered me to "reload at medic", but the game (i.e. a brown direction indicator) sent me a 100 m back to a dead body of an enemy. Only thing I could do was take his AK47.

[MJK-Ranger 0]

In mission I, I rescued Dr.Sova in the village and was ordered to escort him to a hut in the woods.

BUG: Dr.Sova crawled ALL THE WAY!! Took me ca 20 minutes of waiting before he was finally able to crawl to the destination. I tried dragging him, asking him to stop and wait and then follow me again...nothing worked. Pretty annoying;o)

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Again, in mission I, I ran out of ammo and communicated this to the team. Team leader ordered me to "reload at medic", but the game (i.e. a brown direction indicator) sent me a 100 m back to a dead body of an enemy. Only thing I could do was take his AK47.

Hi same here :(

[KJT 0]

Friendly AI can Kill you?

I don't know if this is a bug

friendly AI has killed me twice.

I have read:

Friendly AI kills you – You can be shot by friendlies as punishment for deliberately attacking civilians, friendly soldiers/vehicles. If you accidentally injure or kill a friendly unit, you are not punished instantly. You usually become a renegade after a series of friendly kills.

But I didn't kill or injure any friendly unit

Thx

Its not a bug. If you run in front of a friendly soldier who is shooting you can be hit - just like in real life - I think it has happened to me few times in BIS games.

-KJT-

[LSnK 10]

Custom faces are broken. I have an 8800GT with driver version 185.85.

It looks fine in the profile, but ingame black is transparent. It looks like the texture is being drawn with additive blending instead of normal.

[Supernova 0]

Found Two important bugs.

In badlands mission if you tell your men to move into the Bunker on Novoy Sobor they won't get out of there no matter what you tell them to do or how to move. They just stay there even though they try to get out they stay there as if some kind of invisible force shield is holding them back.

The mission after Badlands (Dogs of War) as soon as you start and the dialogue goes on your team mistakes friendly NAPA fighters as enemies and open fire. This leads to you getting killed quickly.

Edited July 8, 2009 by Supernova

[Alex72 1]

Trees

Has been mentioned before im sure, but trees branches stop bullets. Even between branches they are stopped completelly. Image below show such incident. DMR bullets not far from target was unable to go between branches. The branches that was there was also the outer regions of the branch and it was very thin with leafs. So bullets should go through, and the area i tried to shoot was between. Even that could not hit. Bullets impacted in the air.

RED area is a helmet of a US soldier. GREEN is the tree and its branches. Very simple shot - impossible in ARMA2 as it is now. Hope you get it sorted BIS. ;)

Regards

Alex

[ShaiCZ 10]

Surely mentioned many times before, but:

My team was driving a jeep in a city - a wide and totally unobstructed road with only ONE Skoda car parked by a sidewalk. You´re guessing correctly - my team member, the driver, hit the Skoda car a was UNABLE to drive around it, still reversing and hitting it again...nice pathfinding:o)

Come on, BI, we really need a new patch!

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In one of the first missions (cant remember its name, Razor Two, I think) I got transported by a chopper to a nearby city (called for support). When there, we all disembarked the chopper.

BUG: The AI pilot took off but approximatelly 20 m above the base, resp. the place where he left us, he got stuck in midair, unable to fly anywhere. Calling him back did not help - ...and if he did not die of starvation, he´s probably hovering there even now...:o)

[Red_153D 0]

Sorry for the long absence. I was very busy. The buglist has just been updated to build 1.02.58136

Now, since none of the reported bugs have been fixed yet, let me just add some new entries:

WEAPONS

ACOG sight:

• while aiming down and shooting, the muzzle flash appears black [IMAGE]
  

M1911:

• there's a small shadow issue on the model [IMAGE]
  

VSS Vintorez:

• the sight appears to be misaligned [IMAGE]
  

VEHICLES

BM-21 Grad:

• the gunner's sight is completely unusable [IMAGE]
  

MEN

All USMC soldiers:

• the Modular Tactical Vest's apperance changes when shot [IMAGE]
  

Grenadier (USMC, Force Recon):

• the soldier appears to have the third leg (or a tail) at a certain LOD [IMAGE]
  

MAP

Chernarus:

035091:

• log pile floats in the air [IMAGE]
  

053103:

• another log pile in the air [IMAGE]
  

Edited July 9, 2009 by Red_153D

[hairydavey 0]

I'm running the game with the build 1.02.58136 patch and have just started the Badlands mission. The Razor Team AI won't respond to any commands whatsoever and I have no means of taking control of the cpu soldiers whom are supposed to be under your command. As a result, I can no longer play this level! Surely something this gamebreaking would have been picked up?

This is when in the previous "Bitter Chill" mission, I chose to go to the CDF for help.

Edited July 9, 2009 by hairydavey
More info.

[Alex72 1]

Why does the AI when driving have to slow down at every way point even if there is no change in direction or speed specified?

Why is it they can drive down a road until they reach an object placed to the side and then drive straight at it.

Cmon mate. This is old and being adressed. Please use the search function next time. This is to be a clean bug report list.

Alex

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TREE - FLOATING

Chernarus at 041086 there is a tree floating. Images show where and how.

Alex

Edited July 10, 2009 by Alex72

[SAR4TOGA 10]

As an airline pilot, I have to point out the following:

MISCELLANEOUS

The runway numbers are upside down. Personally, it drives me crazy. They should be pointing toward the approach end...the way you are landing.

[FraG_AU 10]

Not sure if covered.

When in Tusk as Loader and looking through the iron sights on your machine gun, when gunner fires their machine gun, your machine gun fire animation is triggered as well even though you are not firing. Have not checked other tanks.

[Mort<TZW> 10]

Not sure if covered

MG nests

Has anyone else noticed that the MGs in these bunkers can only depress enough to engage at long ranges (minimum ~300 m)?

Obviously there has to be a limit to the amount of depression and minimum engagement range but this seems very unrealistic.

Otherwise thanks BI I love playing ArmA2

[JuggernautOfWar 1]

There is a bug similar to "some of the arm and hand signal animations look really weird sometimes" regarding the pistol reloading while walking. Arms expand and contort in strange ways. NOTE: Only tested this with the Makarov PM.