Falling through floor glitch

[rootnon]

I can't seem to find anyone else with this issue. Every once in a while a section of the map will have bugged height map collision. The landing gear of crafts will fall through the map making it impossible to land or take off.

If you try to spawn on an airbase in a glitched zone the preview of your craft wont be visible and when you spawn in you will be stuck in the ground, if you spawn in a helicopter you will be able to take off just that when you eject from your craft the pilots will be animation bugged, adopting a permanent sitting position.

If there is an enemy IR missile launcher in a bugged zone it will be able see you and shoot you through the terrain whilst being invulnerable to missiles shot at it.

This is not a common issue but will often ruin a round of escalation. I could be 30 - 60 mins into a game and suddenly an airfield will be unusable or an AA enemy will be untouchable.

[Twelvefield]

I wonder if that's related to a problem I had a while back. I was chasing down an invisible Darkreach. I could see it on the MFD screen, but it was located behind a mountain (you see the mountain face, but the camera stays locked on the target). When I got to the other side of the mountain, no Darkreach, although I could see it on TV.

Based on what you found, I am thinking it must have taxied through a hole in the ground and was operating under the surface of the map.

[rootnon]

Are you sure it wasn't just an old signal (an aircraft detected but then lost and the system just tracks its old position). You can still lock on to those.

One way to get an idea of where an old aircraft signal is currently at is by targeting it and switching to an AA missile. once selected start spinning to likely places the lost target can be, if you are aiming at its current position (not were the lock-on signature says it is) the ring reticle (that tells you if the target is in the weapons effective range) will start to fill.

Once you are within range and line of sight of your target the icon will move to its new position and your camera will pan over to it.

[rootnon]

For clarification, when this bug happens vehicles and air-crafts don't fall through the ground only the landing gear goes through the ground. This causes newly spawned crafts to spawn in on their belly with the wheels clipping though the floor.

Yesterday this glitch happened 30 mins into a game so when i was heading to the highway airfield I landed with my gear out but it acted like my gear wasn't deployed, there was also an AI plane in a revetment stuck, unable to take off.

After sitting on the runway for a minute the collision of the terrain came back causing my landing gear to brake off and get stuck into the ground. when i respond 30 seconds later the collision of the ground switched back off and i was once again unable to take off with any plane.

Curiously it doesn't happen to the whole map, only sections of it at a time. So spawning in other runways will still work just that you are rolling dice when trying to land at certain runways and the AI will still try to use bugged runways.

[Twelvefield]

Definitely the system was locked on to an invisible target. I got to within 500 m of it and it was not there. It was huge on TV but impossible to see out of the cockpit. I had a substantial lock, but the missiles all hit the ground.

So maybe my bug is a different bug after all. It happened only once, though, so I can't repeat it.

[rootnon]

lol huge only in tv, weird. Sounds like a different bug.