Please re-add picking up weapons

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Not sure if this is a bug or stealthy implemented feature but can we have this back please? It didn’t work perfectly before but now we can’t do it at all

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2

It’s most likely a bug and not intentional.

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3

I’m really hoping that’s the case

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4

Even before this bug it was very hard to pick up weapons because the weapon itself is where the soldier died and not where his body was.

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5

I don’t know if it’s a bug or it was intentional, but this would be a great time to fix it, and also improve the system to make picking up guns from the fallen easier.

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6

I was wondering if it is a bug or new thing. Hope they will fix this soon.

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This is a surprisingly difficult bug to fix unfortunately. It’s also a very common one in online games. What’s happening is when you kill a guy the server has to determine when exactly he died (which doesn’t necessarily correspond to where you saw him last) and drop the weapon there. On top of that the animation you see of the guy falling over and maybe sliding down a hill or a staircase is entirely only done on your computer to save the server from processing unnecessary physics simulations. Together this means where the server last saw him can differ significantly from where you see the body land. Infact it can be different on everybody’s computers.

Something some games will do is place an object on the ground where the server made that determination, as a visual cue. Backpacks are commonly used because weapons themselves are pretty highly detailed and would cause significant strain considering there could be a lot of them on the ground at once. I would be happy with even something extremely simple like a mark on the ground. There are some other options too, like if your computer reported to the server when you are standing over a body but that could potentially be hacked and we don’t want that.

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I’m having this problem too, cant pick up weapons anymore. I only srtarted to have this problem since last patch.

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its once again scuffed like from beginning they fix it but now its same old thing.