Fire Artillery - Repeatable Crash

[TheOtherTaylor]

Using the Fire artillery module, sometimes it will create a yellow "empty" box with a question mark below the ground near your artillery target. If you click this box it crashes the game.

Steps to repeat (witnessed on dedicated server): -Place manned mortar tube -Place artillery target (~150m away) -Place fire artillery module on mortar, command him to fire (shell type and # did not seem to matter) -Look for yellow item to appear below ground near the target. -Click it

RPT File:

Mods: C:\Users\TheOtherTaylor\Documents\Arma 3\@ares Distribution: 0 Version 1.34.128075 Fault time: 2014/11/06 22:58:10 Fault address: 00849BFE 01:00448BFE C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Arma 3\arma3.exe file: JTF2_Patrol_Ops_NATO (__CUR_MP) world: Altis Prev. code bytes: 24 44 F3 0F 10 05 60 01 8C 01 F3 0F 11 44 24 48 Fault code bytes: F7 46 54 00 09 00 00 57 75 72 68 E4 D3 91 01 8B

Registers: EAX:0255F6F4 EBX:6E5F4100 ECX:6E30EB00 EDX:0255F6F4 ESI:00000000 EDI:6E30EB00 CS:EIP:0023:00849BFE SS:ESP:002B:0255F5F4 EBP:6E30EB00 DS:002B ES:002B FS:0053 GS:002B Flags:00010216 \=======================================================

(Ignore escape character before line of '=')

[astruyk]

If you get that to happen again, can you drop a 'copy to clipboard' module from the save/load dialog closeby and then paste the text in here? That should tell me the name of the class of the [?] that appears.

[astruyk]

Nevermind I was able to repro using the following steps: 1) Start a dedicated server and spawn in some artillery units on the server (I had CSAT units) 2) Connect with a zeus client running Ares 3) Drop a 'artillery target' near the units 4) Drop a 'fire artillery' module on the artillery piece 5) Notice that the unit doesn't actually fire at the location. 6) Run a script to add all vehicles and allUnits objects to the curator object 7) Notice that below the Ares artillery module the [?](yellow box) appears for the ArtilleryTargetW object 8) Click on the yellow box 9) Crash

[["ArtilleryTargetW",[17845.7,12663.8,35.7747],1.60099,1,0],["Ares_Module_Behaviour_Create_Artillery_Target",[17845.7,12663.8,35.7747],359.982,1,0],[17817.7,12671.2,36.2093],[1]]

It looks like the ArtilleryTargetW is what's causing the issue. I think it's a combination of two things:

• The ADV_Zeus script we're running on the server is adding the artillery target object that the AI uses to actually fire at to Zeus when it shouldn't (I'm going to report an issue to BIS about this causing a crash, it shouldn't).
• The 'Fire Artillery' script not actually working correctly on units that aren't local to the player. In particular if you place it on server-spawned units on a dedicated server it seems that the units target the position (creating the 'ArtilleryTargetW' object) but don't actually fire - leaving the marker around for the ADV_Zeus script to pick up and add to Zeus when it shouldn't.

[astruyk]

Reported here http://feedback.arma3.com/view.php?id=21589

[TheOtherTaylor]

I did a little more playing with this last night (but fell asleep before I posed), it appears you can drag select the 'fire artillery' object and delete it without crashing. I'm not sure if this is 100% repeatable, but I did pull it off at least once.