Player Pings | Flare Guns Not Functioning

Summary

Player Pings are not functioning as expected when using items/weapons designed to ping players.

Currently when players are “scanned” they are not showing the diamond marker as expected and/or making the proper player pinged sound.

Affected Items/Weapons:
• Flare Gun
• Fireworks Flare Gun
• Falcon Scout
• Recon Scanner
• Vendetta Fish

Please select what you are reporting on:

Creative

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Stability

Steps to Reproduce

Use one of the items below on players, guards, or creatures.

Affected Items/Weapons:
• Flare Gun
• Fireworks Flare Gun
• Falcon Scout
• Recon Scanner
• Vendetta Fish

Expected Result

It is expected that the items ping the players, guards, or creatures.

Observed Result

No pings.

Platform(s)

All

Island Code

1734-8951-4401

As of today’s v33.10 update, the new Ballistic Recon Grenade also does not ping players

1 Like

Noting that this issue is still present in today’s v33.11 update

Items with issues:

  • Shadow Tracker
  • Business Turret (does not recognize enemies when more than 3 people are in session near it)
  • Flare Gun
  • Recon Grenade
  • Vendetta Flopper
  • Falcon Scout
  • Recon Scanner

Thank you, we have a repro on this and are looking into it.

FORT-833798 is ‘Closed’ as ‘Fixed’. The issue will be addressed in 35.00.