Not spawning with chosen loadout, update glitch

We desperately needed defense on the monument and there were Ghost circling around. I chose the Splinter grenade, spawned it wasn’t there. I died checked and saw it was selected, spawned yet it wasn’t there. It wouldn’t give me the grenade no matter how many times I died and respawned. Either it’s caused by the new update or this UI is truly terrible.

Got me wondering how do you know if the other armor mods are working at all if their effect isn’t exactly visible?