fixed Traveling sands / dust (effect bug)

[Guest]

Hi all,

shot up all five trucks in the convoy, only to have two of their dust trails continue on, (with no truck at the front of the trail).

Not a biggy, just fun to watch.  I shot at 'it' at the end of the video, but nothing happened  

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[YoYo]

I noticed this about a year ago, it's a bug related to the effect, possibly an explosion. It appears on every map and I call it traveling sand. 

Sometimes, after the destruction of a ground object, a cloud of dust appears, traveling endlessly, making serpentines, moving away or closer, quite fast, endlessly. I once thought it was a vehicle running away, because there is an effect just like behind the vehicle, but it turned out that there was no object there. It's a bit funny, but it also spoils the fun because you think something is going there.  +1 for the fix finally, thanks!

[Flappie]

I'm yet to witness this. If you can capture it in a track, please attach it.

[YoYo]

On 5/15/2024 at 10:29 PM, Flappie said:

I'm yet to witness this. If you can capture it in a track, please attach it.

Today I noticed this again. Track was added. This appears after hitting the target so towards the end. The track was recorded in VR (Viggen + Kola are needed), so the image may be more shaky in 2D.

Importantly, this does not apply to the map and weapons, as I recently noticed when attacking the Mi-24P with unguided rockets on PG map.

test2.trk

Edited May 17, 2024 by YoYo

[Flappie]

Many thanks! I see it in your track.

Issue reported.

[Flappie]

I've just found out what they are. They are some kind of "ghost" units. See this track, the sand emits a black smoke and it eventually settles.

PG_traveling sands.trk

So you were right after all, they are invisible vehicles, or sort of.

[YoYo]

I noticed it again yesterday, this time it was Caucasus map. 

Edited May 19, 2024 by YoYo

[Flappie]

Yes, I had to make one over Caucasus for devs, and it did not take me too much time to see it.