[REPORTED] Rearm Menu: Empty 300gal tanks are full

[Nealius]

1. Multiplayer

2. Rearm menu (ground crew comms)

3. Load 300gal tanks (empty)

4. Leave fuel at 100% 

5. Click OK

 

Expected behavior: full internal tanks, two 300gal empty tanks, total fuel ~7700lbs

 

Actual behavior: full internal tanks, two 300gal full tanks, total fuel ~11,000lbs

 

This bug does not appear to occur when in single player. 

Edited August 26, 2021 by Nealius

[Nealius]

Discovered a workaround:

 

1. Rearm without external tanks

2. Rearm complete

3. Rearm again adding empty 300gal to current payload

[Hornet81]

Hi  @Nealius

 

Thanks for the report.

 

I am not able to reproduce your issue in MP. The empty tanks remain empty and with a 7.700 lbs of total fuel.

 

Could you be so kind to attach a track experiencing the issue? In what server did you get that?

Thanks

  

[Nealius]

Reproduced in single player. In this case, I spawned with full 300gal tanks and simply swapped them for empty 300gal tanks in the rearm menu. Fuel magically stays the same.

 

 

emptytanksbutnotreally.trk

[Wisky]

On 8/28/2021 at 5:28 AM, Nealius said:

Reproduced in single player. In this case, I spawned with full 300gal tanks and simply swapped them for empty 300gal tanks in the rearm menu. Fuel magically stays the same.

 

 

emptytanksbutnotreally.trk 78.17 kB · 1 download

 

tanks are not swapped if you rearm. Neither will they swap full for empty nor empty for full.

you need to rearm to a loadout with no tanks, and then back to a loadout with the tanks of your desire (empty or full)

Edited August 29, 2021 by Wisky

[Nealius]

Given empty tanks are a separate "ordnance" than full tanks, and given that other ordnance gets swapped out (e.g. EMAV to LMAV), it should swap the tanks.

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

2 hours ago, Nealius said:

it should swap the tanks

I agree it *should*, but this is a DCS issue and this is how it worked for as long as I can remember. You can easily tell when swapping the livery while rearming; the old livery stays on the fuel tanks unless you remove them and then put them back on.

[Nealius]

9 hours ago, Raven (Elysian Angel) said:

You can easily tell when swapping the livery while rearming; the old livery stays on the fuel tanks unless you remove them and then put them back on.

 

That wasn't the case last time I flew the Hornet or Tomcat. Granted, that was months ago, but the tanks that had liveries switched at the very end of the rearming process without me having to remove/reattach them.

[AlphaJuliet]

We know that there are issues with the rearming of drop tanks, this issue is already reported in our system.