Anyone notice that some ordnance drops are mislabeled? I was in Big Team Infinity Slayer yesterday and saw a sniper rifle on the field. Ran over and picked it up and it turned out to be a -Yoink!- Spartan Laser.
Confused me so much that I looked back to see if I had missed the actual sniper rifle and got killed for my troubles.
Since then I have noticed several drops that were mislabeled.
I once joined a game and everywhere in my map were markers of Spartan Lasers. Until I got to them and they were 'nades, Needlers, etc.
It’s probably lag.
Yeah this happened to me in a game of Dominion. Saw a Spartan Laser, thought “this’ll help get rid of that pesky Wraith”, and when I picked it up it became a DMR.
There were no smiles that day.
Dunno how lag can change the label. That Spartan laser even had the sniper rifle icon. It’s definitely a bug.
Talking about DMR’s though, I picked up one and it put it across my body and wouldn’t let me aim down the -Yoink!- scope. That got me killed too because I just couldn’t aim at the enemy. Fixed when I respawned. Other times the Armour Ability and sprinting refused to work. Those times I think the glitch WAS triggered by lag.
Happens to me all the time.
Ran up to what I thought was a Laser, turns out they were grenades :-/
I’ve noticed this happens most if you join a game in progress or are having connection issues like lag.
Also I would suggest you rename this thread because it sounds like you are talking about the Spartan Laser working like a sniper rifle. Not mislabled ordinance.
Changed the title.
Like I said before, I don’t see how lag can cause label changes. Packet loss, maybe… But when I tested my connection I had 0% loss.
What it COULD me is the game engine not completing scripts. That would be lag, but not network lag… engine lag. The gun being held across your chest when you go to run but not aiming forward again when you stop.
Also happens when the game changes host. Ruins a whole load of things when that happens. People teleporting all over the place (fell through the map into a white nothingness the one time), being teleported high in the sky to then fall to your death… vehicles getting stuck under the map… shame the game never went through a public beta tbh.
Yeah Lag is to blame
Sees Spartan Lazer Label
Runs like mad to Spartan Lazer, dodging Wraiths, Ghosts and crazy DMR Spam
Only finds 2 Pulse grenades
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
LOL @ Xerkos333… Yeah, happened in a game of Regicide to me today.
I ran out of AR rounds and needed another main weapon. Saw an Energy Sword near me and ran to get it while being chased… I get there and find it was it was two grenades and I stop and my chaser donated an extra plasma nade… right to the back of my head!
It doesn’t happen all of the time. In fact some really laggy games (where you would think it would happen due to all sorts of glitches happening) it labelled the weapon drops correctly.
I’m actually wondering if it is a previous drop that was not picked up and then another weapon drops onto it but not updating the label. Or it updates the label but the new weapon vanishes…