Battlefield 2042 has a serious bug that makes an important gadget in the game completely useless with a few simple clicks. Because without much effort, players can completely “turn off” smoke grenades in the game, rendering them worthless for their intended use. Find out here on MeinMMO what this is all about.
What is the problem with smoke grenades? Battlefield 2021 has a lot of bugs. Among them are hovercrafts with strange driving characteristics, the redeploy bug, or the impenetrable shield that even stopped tanks.
While the aforementioned bugs have already been addressed by the developers, new errors in the system are appearing. A particularly bad bug that renders essential features of the game useless has recently been discovered.
When a menu is opened, the particle effects of smoke grenades are suddenly disabled.
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This is how the bug affects gameplay: All you have to do to completely negate smoke grenades is open a specific menu in the game. As soon as you are back in the game, the particles from the smoke grenade are disabled. A reddit user discovered this.
You can see exactly how he takes out a horde of enemies and downs a few. They lie helpless on the ground, calling for their remaining comrades for help. Since they don’t want to be taken down while reviving, they follow the textbook approach and throw smoke grenades to obscure the area so they can revive their friends in peace.
Even though the bug can be easily reproduced, we advise you not to replicate it. Since it’s an obvious mistake, you might get banned for exploiting it.
This is what players are saying: The thread by Jacksfootball51 on reddit exploded and has already received 7,200 upvotes and almost 400 comments after 17 hours. These are mostly dominated by shock and disbelief:
- Op3rat0rr: ‘This game is so broken, lol. It needs to be fixed immediately!’
- HotSpicedChai: ‘I love this subreddit, every day I see something new about the game that doesn’t work. Almost as if it were still in alpha or beta.’
- Aurkonnungr: ‘Now I finally understand why someone could give me a headshot through the smoke!’
Other users responded with gallows humor and commented that the developers hopefully won’t just disable the corresponding menu as a fix. Others defended the developers, saying that it is indeed a very bizarre bug that likely went unnoticed during playtesting.
In any case, the bug is a serious issue and should be addressed soon. To make the game better and reduce errors, the developers have already presented a roadmap.
But Jacksfootball51 simply opens a menu and suddenly all enemies previously hidden by smoke are clearly visible and an easy target for him. You can see how this looks in the game here in the video:
The bug thus completely removes an important gameplay item from the game and severely disrupts the balance.
Even though the bug can be easily reproduced, we advise you not to replicate it. Since it’s an obvious mistake, you might get banned for exploiting it.
This is what players are saying: The thread by Jacksfootball51 on reddit exploded and has already received 7,200 upvotes and almost 400 comments after 17 hours. These are mostly dominated by shock and disbelief:
- Op3rat0rr: ‘This game is so broken, lol. It needs to be fixed immediately!’
- HotSpicedChai: ‘I love this subreddit, every day I see something new about the game that doesn’t work. Almost as if it were still in alpha or beta.’
- Aurkonnungr: ‘Now I finally understand why someone could give me a headshot through the smoke!’
Other users responded with gallows humor and commented that the developers hopefully won’t just disable the corresponding menu as a fix. Others defended the developers, saying that it is indeed a very bizarre bug that likely went unnoticed during playtesting.
In any case, the bug is a serious issue and should be addressed soon. To make the game better and reduce errors, the developers have already presented a roadmap.
