Game Bugs with Drone, and other | Forums

[Ricey19666]

My drone randomly is unavailable, i press the key and it clicks but no drone, this seems intermittent and selective based on what i am doing in the game, then there is the random spawning of unidad attacking you, the no x hairs or sights if you are equipped with the optical cammo on any weapon again random but more frequent if you are prone or crouched When are ubisoft going to fix these issues , oh and please stop with the cheating on certain daily challenges

[venomgun1]

Unavailable drone bug happens in a bunch of different scenarios and can't be reliably reproduced, which makes fixes exponentially more difficult. There was a lot of situations that simply weren't expected or predicted during testing phase. Only known temporary workarounds are going into a downed state, dying and fast travel. All of which can be very inconvenient sometimes.
- It can happen right after ability cooldown. Explosive drone is affected the most, followed by medic and EMP (desync),
- if a player gets shot while launching a drone (animation bug) or using a drone to mark targets for sync shot (sync shot cooldown will also trigger the bug)
- working EMP will disable all nearby electronics, which includes players ability to use drones. These effects should be temporary, but sometimes aren't (desync)
- players stance can also result in drone becoming unavailable, especially if it was launched while prone (collision bug)
- drone was destroyed by environment, including enemy vehicles, with or without timed cooldown,
- there was an attempt to launch a drone during cooldown,
- interrupted cloud save and/or going to inventory during cooldown, etc

A lot of "random" unidad spawns can be avoided. It is annoying, but not game breaking. Spawn logic is complicated. It's difficult to change 1 thing, while not breaking another, related or unrelated.

No crosshair happens with or without optical camo. It's a HUD issue, also without universal cause. While there's no permanent fix, fast traveling will bring the crosshair back. Also, some players choose to go the extra mile and disable HUD, partially or completely.

What daily challenges seem to be the problem? Silent Spade snipers only was broken by latest title update (it can still be completed though, with or without bomb truck relocation) and explosive drone challenge encourages farming, mostly due to oversight (over half bosses which can be killed don't count). We already had a different challenge tracking in place. It was fundamentally flawed, breaking progress in unrelated missions, or just annoyed when specific weapons/gadgets weren't used until affected challenge was completed. This felt super forced compared to a system we have in place today. A bit more freedom in how we approach challenges isn't necessarily a bad thing.

[Ricey19666]

You can't see the sights or barrel of the guns too, so you have no clue as to where your gun is pointing, the last time my drone selectively failed to launch was whilst trying to do a convoy, and was equipped with EMP when convoy was in range it wouldn't work, as soon as the convoy was about 200mtrs away it launched but convoy by then was out of drones range

[venomgun1]

You can't see the sights or barrel of the guns too, so you have no clue as to where your gun is pointing, the last time my drone selectively failed to launch was whilst trying to do a convoy, and was equipped with EMP when convoy was in range it wouldn't work, as soon as the convoy was about 200mtrs away it launched but convoy by then was out of drones range

Completely forgot to mention another known cause. Drone not launching can be a rendering bug too. Some provinces are more resource hungry than others. For example, you enter an area and attempt to use the drone while game assets are not completely loaded in memory (RAM/VRAM), or worse ... are still being read/loaded from hard drive/SSD. When that happens, you wont be able to use the drone, binoculars or even sync shot feature. This isn't something developers can fix on their end. Lowering graphics settings may or may not help here, especially if there's bottleneck somewhere (prebuilt PC's often have this problem).

If you can't use the drone, but still have access to binoculars and sync shot feature, it's possible there's a dead zone somewhere on the map, which prevents drones from being used or even spawning helicopters sometimes. When you find a dead zone, make note of it and avoid it in the future.
EMP isn't the only way to stop a convoy. Rebel spotting + shooting/sync shot the driver while in close proximity work fine. Damaging the truck (under 40% health remaining) is also an option. I prefer 600+ meter long shots from elevated position method of stopping convoys.

[UbiMorning]

My drone randomly is unavailable, i press the key and it clicks but no drone, this seems intermittent and selective based on what i am doing in the game, then there is the random spawning of unidad attacking you, the no x hairs or sights if you are equipped with the optical cammo on any weapon again random but more frequent if you are prone or crouched

Are you able to provide a video per chance to demonstrate this isuse? Or any screenshots if possible.