Minor damage never starts the repair timer

[JCTherik]

                                                                                                                                                                                  

It's been reported multiple times, but people always hijack the thread for other complaints, so, here's a real fancy bug report again, please, keep this for this bug, and this bug only.

                                                                                                                                                                                  

Bug: Minor damage doesn't start the repair counter, when repair requested

 

Note: The actual repair itself works, but the airplane has to be damaged more than just flaps or blown tire to start the 180 second timer.

Can I reproduce it 100%: Yes

 

How to reproduce:

Note: I've personally seen this bug happen with stuck flaps, other stuck control surfaces and blown wheels, but there are probably other scenarios where this happens. I'll be using stuck flaps as an example, since stuck flaps are easy to produce on demand.

Step1: Spawn a pristine airplane

Step2: Cold start

Step 3: Take off

Step 4: Deploy landing flaps

Step 5: Overspeed flaps, verify that they're indeed broken and they don't retract anymore

Step 6: Land carefully on a friendly airport, so as not to introduce any other damage

Step 7: Engine off, wait for spooldown, canopy open

Step 8: Ask for repair

Result:

Expected behaviour: Ground crew says "Copy", and starts the 180 second timer

Actual behaviour: Ground crew says "Copy", but the timer never starts

 

Note: At the risk of repeating myself, if the airplane has some bigger damage, the timer will start and the flaps will get fixed, so, it's not the actual repair that's broken, just the initiation of it.

DCS Version: DCS 2.7.16.28157 Open Beta today, but it's been BROKEN FOR YEARS!

 

Last time I reproduced it was yesterday, multiplayer, 4YA UK Aerobatic BETA, but I don't think that matters, i've seen it broken in multiple servers.

 

Edited August 3, 2022 by JCTherik
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[IronMike]

Thank you for the report, we'll look into it.

[JCTherik]

Seems fixed in the latest patch,

THANK YOU!