I'd be curious to know people's lvl/where they are at in the game. I started having this issue today with the Hive and Turret. I was somewhere around lvl 18-20 doing random encounters and then moving onto Lincoln Memorial and Potomac Event Center missions. After those, it seemed to get much worse as I was doing side quests in Downtown East to lvl up. Once I got up to lvl 24 and started the Stronghold in Downtown East, the problem went away. I'm lvl 25 and have done a couple more side quests and the problem is completely gone now.
It might simply be coincidence, but I might as well throw the info out there and see if anyone has seen similar.
Yeah I just started playing.... made it to level 4 when my turret and my drone just stop working... happened after the update when I got back home. This is frustrating and actually made it hard to get past a spot, I didn’t have other skills unlocked yet. Please fix ASAP Ubisoft! I’m loving the game but this sucks!
...and it came back again as soon as I went into a group to do another mission. It's also sometimes acting liked it glitched out and starts a cool down timer, but the turret stays. I can't destroy it and can't redeploy it after the timer runs out. I have to wait for it to auto destroy.
You can see it here:
https://youtu.be/s6cENAYN6ZM
This bug is happening to me as well. It seems to have started with the patch deployed on the 16th. The game/skills were fine prior to the 16th.
Turret will immediately despawn when deployed. You can get the same effect manually by tossing the turret then holding down its corresponding Q/E key and manually despawning it, the cooldown will be 15 seconds to redeploy.
Ive found that if you use a skill, then basically do nothing for about 5 seconds, the skill with then stay enabled and run its full course. So basically if I want to use the turret or drone (my 2 skills of choice), I have to deploy them and basically do nothing else for several seconds, which in many cases gets me killed.
Currently the game is overly difficult to play due to these issues. It needs a hotfix ASAP.