Glitch on flag mission

[Big Boss]

Was playing a difficulty 9 flag mission
On the final flag out of three it always said we needed to kill one more enemy, even when there were clearly no enemies around so we failed the mission.

Me and one other guy stayed there for like 20 minutes fighting new waves, 380mm bombing the area to try and get any bugs stuck underground, and tried running to the other side of the map and back again to despawn anything there but nothing worked. Stayed fighting until the bitter end when time ran out and the pelican left.


I know there's been a big new patch and glitches are going to happen, but thought I'd post.
Extra annoying because it was the last mission of the campaign too.

Maybe remove the need to clear enemies? Add a failsafe timer on either the flag or on enemies themselves? For a game that is known to be prone to collision errors and glitches generally, there should be something in place to prevent this

[{AZC} ArgulKit]

Had the same bug when joined random mission.

[Wutever]

Did you have an Impaler nearby? I've seen those go completely invisible instead of despawning, but they still have a marker on the map and can sometimes attack you.

[Big Boss]

Originally posted by Wutever:

Did you have an Impaler nearby? I've seen those go completely invisible instead of despawning, but they still have a marker on the map and can sometimes attack you.

I think so yeah. A couple of times I saw dirt kick up by itself on the ground so tried bombing and shooting there but it didn't seem to hit anything or do anything at all. Never got attacked by it being close to it though

But on 9s you have many of every enemy type near you at some point so I didn't think anything of it.
I kind of assumed it was the tentacles and that you can't really "kill" them, but when the tentacles retreated underground the enemy count went down so didn't think it was that either.

[Wutever]

Originally posted by Big Boss:

Originally posted by Wutever:

Did you have an Impaler nearby? I've seen those go completely invisible instead of despawning, but they still have a marker on the map and can sometimes attack you.

I think so yeah. A couple of times I saw dirt kick up by itself on the ground so tried bombing and shooting there but it didn't seem to hit anything or do anything at all. Never got attacked by it being close to it though

But on 9s you have many of every enemy type near you at some point so I didn't think anything of it.
I kind of assumed it was the tentacles and that you can't really "kill" them, but when the tentacles retreated underground the enemy count went down so didn't think it was that either.

Yeah, it probably was an Impaler then. I've had that thing go invisible on top of a civilian evac objective. It doesn't seem to attack players, but instantly went for the civilians. Best I could do is shoot the tentacles. Luckily it kind of sucks at killing civilians so I don't think I failed either of the missions. If this happens on a flag mission you can just abandon the mission right away. I never managed to find a workaround. Even walking away didn't despawn it, probably because it is already considered despawned.

Oh, and FYI, this is not a new bug. It has been in the game since the Impaler got introduced.