Loach CAS Small rotors clipping on nothing

[robust chasm]

Tallil Outskirts RAAS
Main rotor randomly explodes as if it collided with an object. The enemy team confirmed none of them shot my rotor. In the clip you can see it goes from 100% rotor health to 0% in an instant, so it wasn't from being shot. This used to only happen in main base near the heli pads with the Loach CAS Small, but now it happens in random places in the map like this. This happened 1 other time to me, but didn't capture that one on video.

[mortal tusk]

that guy on the end didnt see a fucking heli crash there 🤣

[robust chasm]

three times in one match it has happened just now, here is the most recent of the 3 occurences
Black Coast RAAS v2
I am noticing this bug seems to happen during weapon switches, every time I have seen it. I switch from rockets to minigun, back to rockets to fire one rocket, then back to minigun and the tail rotor explodes on itself.

[turbid nymph]

This bug existed since the first playtest

[robust chasm]

I didn't see it on their "Known issues" part of the patch notes, are they already aware of this bug?

[turbid nymph]

Yeah same, i guess they don’t know about it

[robust chasm]

It happened a few more times today, here's the most recent one at the end of a Black Coast v2 RAAS game

it seems that every time this happens to me, my heli is able to land and tumble around on the ground w/o taking any hull damage at a speed that would normally blow up the heli at any other time, except when this glitch occurs. Which is nice so I can try to recover it, but enemies can take advantage of this glitch by going to shoot me as I make repairs.

[valid cave]

Have you played any games without that problem

[robust chasm]

Yeah, a few, that's why I put intermittent. The one thing I see that happens consistently is switching weapons while flying seems to always be what happens at the same time the rotor explodes.

[zealous sundial]

@robust chasmThis is a bug that has existed in Ue5 since very early closed playtesting
What happens is that the weapon that you switch from is actually a different "Asset" and it just goes invisible while another asset with the same geometry appears.
But when the weapon disappears, it seems like it's collision does not get removed / move with the vehicle so when the rotors go to where the weapon was at the time you switched, it acts like something hit your rotor

This is me on Jensens
https://medal.tv/games/squad/clips/l348zmN5JtYTaGxbS?invite=cr-MSxkb2YsNDQzNDU3OTI5

As I moved downwards after changing weapons its collision box stayed in that spot and when my main rotor went through it. The game thought it collided and broke the rotors

[robust chasm]

Thanks for that, I tried to test it in the range and couldn't duplicate it. Now that I know this, I am going to try to test it to see how reliably this occurs and that will help me to try to avoid switching weapons while dropping altitude until they make a fix.

[robust chasm]

After a few more days with this, it happens very reliably. It is 100% replicatable. Hope this bug is fixed soon now that it has been identified.

[zealous sundial]

This was identified over 6 months ago in the unreal 5 tests

[robust chasm]

bruh 🤣

[turbid nymph]

Yep i remember myself reporting it lol

[bitter owl]

Only way to avoid this that I have been able to do is to fly slighly up and backwards

[turbid nymph]

or pitch down a little bit and make sure your heli is going upwards and forwards and switch guns

[bitter owl]

Im succesfull with that like 75% of the time but if I am going to fast that 25% gets ya so I prefer to invert

https://tenor.com/view/inverted-because-glasses-coughs-explaining-gif-17567468

[robust chasm]

That 25% is because you didnt fully straighten out, happens to me too, so you're flying forward, but your heli is tilted left or right slightly and now your tail rotor hits the invisible hitbox

It's annoying, but definitely avoidable, gotta do what you gotta do till they fix it

[heavy gust]

Still fucking exists.. UE5 ready!

[robust chasm]

FIXED???? Testing in range rn and can't break my own rotor! @zealous sundial

[turbid nymph]

i hope so

[robust chasm]

after trying to break my rotor for several minutes, I believe it is fixed

[turbid nymph]

funny that they don't include it in the patchnotes

it probably fixed itself ?

[robust chasm]

yeah, I was dissappointed then happy to find it wasn't happening anymore

[turbid nymph]

finally

i'm happy too lol

[robust chasm]

they also changed how the minigun fires, it shoots one beam out of the center of the heli now, instead of the two guns on the wings

[zealous sundial]

That has to be a bug introduced from them fixing the other one

[robust chasm]

yeah, but I kinda like it lol