Are AA turrets bugged for other people/servers?

Tonight, as I was defending the glorious Soveriegnty from the Imperialistic terrans attempting to dig their claws into the dusty brown heart of Indar, I noticed a few pesky little Mosquitos on the horizon, so I jumped into an AA turret to swat them down. Much to my surprise, what happened was not a glorious eruption of purple tracer fire and explosions, but make a little "click", which I discovered was because the cannon was, apparently, "overheated", despite not having been used, nor did it cool down. Now, given it was Indar, that would not be terribly surprising from a realism point of view, but from a gameplay aspect it was a bit dissapointing.

Others of my allies remarked upon the... inconvenience of this situation, and I found it repeated when I make a strategical rearwards advance towards the nearby tech plant to defend it, which, as you might expect, made defending against enemy aircraft somewhat more difficult than normal.

tl;dr: AA turrets were broken on Matherson/Indar tonight, anyone seen that before? And/or should I file a bug report on it?

Posted Apr 16, 2013, 3:03 AM UTC

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AvatarOfMomusMatherson (That guy behind your tank with C4)•

I've seen it before but not for a few months now. You can "fix" it by blowing the turret up and then repairing it. Yes, file a bug report. If a bug like this is back it's likely because of a new cause so they'll need all the data they can get.

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ShabaduMontyRoberts (Briggs)•

I've seen this before, at random times. Usually just 1 turret on a base, they seem to bug out. I've never seen it mentioned before, now that I come to think about it, so a bug report could be a good idea indeed.

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PainwalkerAzure Twilight - Emerald (Mattherson)•

I've also found that sometimes after extended use the turrets stop registering hits. Very annoying when you can't tell if you're even doing anything. Very broken AA guns.

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BF3WaxTadpoleNC NG•

Yes I saw this last night at Regent Rock on Connery. It was not the AA but two of the AV turrets were doing this. After about 10 minutes it corrected itself. Meanwhile there were a lot of vehicles in range...

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