Mk6 mortars disappear upon unload from cargo

[b-mayr-1984]

Mods (complete and add to the following information):

Type: Public
Build: Stable
Version: 2.16.151618


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20:06:15                 Advanced Combat Environment 3.17.0 |                 @ace |      false |      false |             GAME DIR | 3ae721fea7b36d0f0fc72cd2d0f64f611a4c5983 |  f54d87d1 | C:\_srvroot\webapps\a3s-repository\repo_mods\@ace

Description:
During many game nights of Shoot and Scoot have Opfor players losing their MK6 mortars when they unload them from their vehicle (ACE cargo).

• It doesn't matter wether players use Unload or Deploy.
• Happens in dense jungle as well as open space near a street.

For some reason I don't recall this ever happening to a BluFor Mk6 mortar.

Steps to reproduce:
I can't reproduce the problem. It just shows quite often and I capture it on video (see below)

Expected behavior:
Mortars shouldn't disappear.

Where did the issue occur?

• Dedicated Server hosting a 57 players TvT event

Log Files:

• server's RPT file
• player rund's RPT file
• player Comando's RPT file

Additional context:
You will see in the videos that I sometimes also struggle to place a new Mk6 mortar as Zeus.
Maybe the problems are related.

Zeus never loses the mortar though. I just appears somewhere else.

In versions prior to ACE 3.17.0 (and prior to having Deploy as an option to unload) the mortar spawned but immediately got destroyed afterward.

Screen recordings:

1st.broken.mortar.mp4

2nd.broken.mortar.mp4

3rd.broken.mortar.mp4

4th.broken.mortar.mp4

[b-mayr-1984]

As discussed with @LinkIsGrim on Discord:

• We will update to 3.17.1 or higher for the next game night.
  • Maybe this fixes the problem already.
• In case 3.17.1 doesn't fix it, I will also try to find the lost mortars (e.g. via variable names and distance or getPos commands etc.).

[b-mayr-1984]

@jokoho48 noticed that in the 2nd video one can see mortars on the Zeus map.

• One is directly where the players are
• The otherone is ~20m South of the players

The southern position pretty much matches where the players first pinged me to help them (see 1st video).

So if both shown mortars are located in 2D space where

• players are right now (just having lost a mortar)
• players were at the previous position (having lost their last mortar there)

then I think it is safe to say that the mortars are either

• very high up in altitude
• or very low beneath the terrain

(both positions I wouldn't see when looking at the 3D world).

[b-mayr-1984]

• We will update to 3.17.1 or higher for the next game night.
  • Maybe this fixes the problem already.

Gruppe Adler server has been upated.

Finding missing mortar

• In case 3.17.1 doesn't fix it, I will also try to find the lost mortars (e.g. via variable names and distance or getPos commands etc.).

Finding the mortar I will do with this module.

Bringing a mortar back to the surface I will do with this code snippet (executed from the Zeus dialog that opens upon double-clicking the object):

private _pos = getPosATL _this; 
diag_log format ["getPosATL: %1", _pos];
_this setPosATL [_pos#0, _pos#1, 0];

[b-mayr-1984]

Hopefully this workaround alleviates the problem for the players (and me 😅).
gruppe-adler/Shoot_and_Scoot.Tanoa@8b06f13