Known issues Thread - Vector Thrust

Format:
{Fixed version} – {Reproduction rate} – {Description}

Critical

- [5/5] - The game crashes and the key binds are reset if the user presses the "ALT + F4" keys in Options menu.
- [5/5] - Challenge rating scale not implemented in all challenges
- [5/5] - The invite and join friend features are not available
- [5/5] - The user cannot create a private lobby in multiplayer session.
- [5/5] - Setting the display resolution to 800x600 will not display different sections of menus.
- [5/5] - There is no method or message that informed the user how the planes should be unlocked.
- [5/5] - The game mode is not displayed in the lobby section
- [5/5] - There is no draw screen received by the players during a multiplayer session after the multiplayer session timer has ended and none of the players have made any kills.
- [5/5] - Both players (host and client) receive the mission clear screen after the multiplayer session timer has ended and only one of the has made a kill during the session.
- [5/5] - Two lives will be deducted if the user crashes into the ground/water or gets destroyed by an enemy plane while the aircraft is near the border in a multiplayer session.
- [5/5] - The client will not fail the session when all the lives were lost if a time limit is set and the Last Team Standing game mode is selected.
- [5/5] - The game does not detect that the uplink has been lost or that the Ethernet Cable has been removed.
- [1/5] - A player can win a session on the Last Man Standing or Last Team Standing game mode by killing the other player just once.

Major

- [5/5] - The user cannot sell the weapons from a plane if the same plane was sold in Campaign mode
- [5/5] - All planes except 23 have visible missiles while in nose view camera.
- [5/5] - All planes except 2 don't have a cockpit
- [5/5] - The "Auto pilot" key is not specified in the control options.
- [5/5] - In mission 4, Restless Bounds campaign, after destroying the first three enemy battleships an audio corruption appears
- [5/5] - Mission 4 naval kills are counted incorrectly
- [5/5] - Mission 9 naval kills are counted incorrectly
- [5/5] - There are no visual indicators and button representations to help the user navigate the Campaign menu when using a controller
- [5/5] - No information about the use of countermeasures is shown in the game.
- [5/5] - Bomb crosshair can be out of the HUD
- [5/5] - The user is not informed about what the colors (ally/enemy/neutral) of the objectives displayed during campaign missions mean
- [5/5] - After booting the title, each time the user starts a mission in Battle Scenario, on the loading screen, there is a sound of an aircraft that accelerates
- [5/5] - The campaign "Restless_bonds" doesn't have a name and a description.
- [5/5] - Graphic texture of the water starts to get corrupted if you get close to the surface.
- [5/5] - Several planes have a visual defect while firing the machine gun, the trace effect spawns near the back side of the plane
- [5/5] - The controller offers no vibration feedback for in game events.
- [5/5] - The host doesn't have the kick option during the game-play.
- [5/5] - The "Say Team" option doesn't exist during game-play in Team Deathmatch or Last Team Standing in multiplayer session.
- [5/5] - Features of each plane are not specified in the Challenge mode descriptions.
- [5/5] - Setting the display resolution to 800x600 makes different sections of the screen overlap
- [5/5] - The mouse arrow will disappear if the user presses the "ALT" + "TAB" keys in the options from the Shop Menu.
- [5/5] - There are no visual indicators and button representations to help the user during game play
- [5/5] - Switching targets brings current objective outside the field of view
- [5/5] - The user cannot click on the planes in the "Buy Aircratfs" menu.
- [5/5] - There are no visual indicators and button represenations to help navigate the Battle Scenario menu when using a controller
- [5/5] - The sound is still played if the user presses the "ALT + TAB" keys.
- [5/5] - There is no sound feedback when the plane is destroyed at the yellow map border.
- [5/5] - The chat-box key is not specified in the control options.
- [5/5] - In the lobby section and lobby the user is not informed if the session uses mutators
- [5/5] - Team Deathmach and Last Team Standing gaming mode doesn't have on option for team matching.
- [5/5] - The escape key and the back key doesn't work in menus
- [5/5] - The primary radar doesn't have borders.
- [5/5] - The number of deaths is not displayed on the Leaderboard of a multiplayer session.
- [5/5] - Any participant in a multiplayer session can trigger game-play by pressing ready
- [5/5] - The "Family" button is greyed-out after the user creates a new lobby.
- [5/5] - The "Weapon" submenu will not open after the user tries to click on the dropbox.
- [5/5] - Restarting a campaign then exiting the menu will not place the user at the first mission
- [5/5] - The text is not wrapped in the MP lobby chat box.
- [5/5] - There is no lobby timer when starting a multiplayer session.
- [5/5] - During game-play, the players from the session can observe the chat from the lobby.
- [5/5] - Once the total player experience passes a certain threshold it begins to show non-numerical numbers
- [5/5] - The mutators are not displayed on the leaderboard during game-play in a multiplayer session.
- [5/5] - There is no confirmation button in the mutator list menu after a mutator is selected.
- [5/5] - Game objectives remain stuck at previous setting when swapping between deatchmatch and last standing game modes
- [5/5] - The family drop-box from the Skirmish menu is not functional
- [5/5] - The user is not informed that the lives will be count individually or in teams in a multiplayer session.
- [5/5] - The sp fuel for the Bloody Overdrive mode mutator will reset if the plane is destroyed in a multiplayer session.
- [5/5] - The red effects from the Bloody Overdrive mode mutator cannot be seen by the other players in a multiplayer session.
- [5/5] - The names of many planes are not aesthetically displayed in Skirmish and Multiplayer
- [5/5] - The planes are always spawned with the radar mode that displayed missiles in a multiplayer session.
- [5/5] - There is no visual feedback on the buttons from the quit menu during game-play.
- [5/5] - The YE-7P4 plane doesn't have a description in the Challenge menu.
- [5/5] - No confirmation inquiry after the user presses "Retry mission" whilst still in the mission
- [5/5] - The machine gun animation and sound can remain stuck at the end of Skirmish and Multiplayer Modes
- [5/5] - If being destroyed the player gets respawned one more time before the endgame screen is displayed
- [5/5] - A challenge will not be count as clear if the user press the ALT + F4 keys on the result screen.
- [5/5] - There is no confirmation button in the "Unit list" menu after units are selected.
- [5/5] - The "Create lobby" menu has multiple overlapping menus in 800 x 600 resolution
- [5/5] - The "Player Level" and the "Deathmatch Rules" tabs are overlapping inside the "Skirmish" menu when playing the game on the 800x600 resolution.
- [5/5] - Several tabs inside the "Battle Scenario" menu are overlapping when playing the game on the 800x600 resolution.
- [5/5] - The buttons from the Options menu are overlaped by the "Radio Chatter Settings" section when the 800 x 600 resolution is selected.
- [5/5] - The debriefing screen tabs overlap in several resolutions
- [5/5] - Cannot set the radial blur in 800 x 600 resolution
- [5/5] - Cannot set the AI skill level in 800 x 600 resolution
- [5/5] - A graphical corruption appears on the water when the Debug mode is open during game-play.
- [5/5] - A desync occurs when a client presses the "join lobby" button before the host starts the session.
- [5/5] - The camera remains in the cockpit view when a multiplayer session is clear with X-16S or F16 C B-30 planes.
- [5/5] - The user can select from the unit list more units than the number selected in the Num AI Units box in Skirmish mode.
- [5/5] - User is not informed that he has to unlock units in Challenge mode for them to be available in other game modes
- [5/5] - The Unit Stats, Unit Awards and the Mutators Awards buttons from the Profile menu are greyed out.

Minor

- [5/5] - The buttons from the "mission failed" screen do not have visual feedback when hovering over them in Campaign mode.
- [5/5] - The area, location, time and the date are not specified on the intro screen for all the missions in "Restless_bonds" campaign.
- [5/5] - The icon logo doesn't appear on the windowed game, in the taskbar and volume mixer.
- [5/5] - Battle Scenario menu does not display the right amount of time an aircraft has been used
- [5/5] - The planes have the same destroy animation on water as on ground.
- [5/5] - The user is not informed that he will receive only half of the price if a plane or a weapons are sold.
- [5/5] - Fly time not counted in Campaign mode
- [5/5] - Sound clipping is appearing when cycling through the menu buttons.
- [5/5] - All the buttons from the submenus do not have visual feedback when hovering over them.
- [5/5] - The buttons from the submenus of Campaign, Arcade, Multiplayer, Challenge and Profile do not have sound feedback.
- [5/5] - The aircraft does not take damage when the wings collide with the ground
- [5/5] - The planes do not have pilots.
- [5/5] - In the leaderboard will be displayed "Last Team Standing" even if the lobby was created in "Last Man Standing" mode in the multiplayer session.
- [5/5] - There is a inconsistency between the names of the game modes from the filters and the names from the create lobby menu.
- [5/5] - User is not informed about the meaning of the [A/B] signal appearing on the HUD
- [5/5] - Inconsistency between the texts from the loading screen if the goal damage is selected in Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch game modes.
- [5/5] - The name of the Bloody Overdrive Mode mutator doesn't fit in the available mutators list.
- [5/5] - The "Mission Clear" message is not placed in the middle of the screen after a challenge is completed succesfully.
- [5/5] - Suggestion : There is no information when the user has low ammunition, fuel or health.
- [5/5] - The name for the LAU 61 C/A Rocket launcher pod does not fit its designated space
- [5/5] - The option for launch missiles is active even if no missiles are available in the Hopeless Diamond Challenge.
- [5/5] - The main weapon option is available even if there are no missiles available in the YA-10A Challenge.
- [5/5] - The results of the user's actions from a past life are displayed after he respawns
- [5/5] - Overlapping messages when the session ends
- [5/5] - The camera passes throught the planes if the Missiles Plane mutator is selected in a multiplayer session.
- [5/5] - The space between words is missing from the name of the skins in the lobby section.
- [5/5] - The target ot the "Target Zone" in the Hopeless Diamond Int Con Challenge is still displayed even if the mission fail.
- [5/5] - The user is not informed in the rules of the J-35 MOD Challenge that he must use the special function key to use the machine gun.
- [5/5] - The client will be displayed for a second in the same team with the host in a multiplayer session.
- [5/5] - The "Hud Colors" from the "Hud Options" menu does not have a "restore to default" button.
- [5/5] - The "Continue" button from the briefing screen has no visual feedback when hovering over it in Campaign and Battle Scenario modes.
- [5/5] - If the display resolution 800 x 600 is selected the "Leave Operation Area" message will overlap the chaffs section during game-play.
- [5/5] - Messages overlap with the HUD info in 800 x 600 resolution
- [5/5] - The text of the allies are still displayed on the result screen after a mission is complete in Campaign mode.

Trivial

- [5/5] - Pressing the TAB key will not jump to others categories in the submenu of the game.
- [5/5] - Wrong abbreviation used for Number In the "Team Configuration" box from the Create lobby menu.
- [5/5] - In the "Lobby" menu Player appear instead of Plane.
- [5/5] - The plural form is used on the loading screen if 1 (one) is used as the goal for "hit" or "point".

Updated- Issues imported from the QA test

Edited by: timeSymmetry

All planes except 2 don't have a cockpit

F-16? I doubt it should be called a bug however. It's more of a WIP.

In this list are other "issues" that are the result of WIP stuff, but they were still treated as bugs.

Pressing backspace to make a correction in Skirmish editing will take you back to the Menu.

J-35MOD4 Canard's redeployment animation is missing

Mesh error with the brown island in TropicalM1 making water hill thing

Ocean M2 and Ocean M3 are the same

For the issues relating to Alt-F4, I thought it was normal (except for the crashing bit) that information isn't saved since you're closing the game without actually committing the changes.

timeSymmetry wrote:
- [5/5] - Bomb crosshair can be out of the HUD

Is this behavior different from what I picture? Since the reticle indicates the point of impact, it would hide past the HUD border if you're not properly oriented or fast enough. At least, I remember this was something every game did.

Yes, it is exactly what you have in mind.

These issues are the entire list submitted from the QA team.
Something to keep in mind is that this QA team is more used to 4X games, so you can notice there are some “issues” that are gameplay elements that we already take for granted.

SpootKnight wrote: For the issues relating to Alt-F4, I thought it was normal (except for the crashing bit) that information isn't saved since you're closing the game without actually committing the changes.

Would be a different story if it's actually resets the keybinding back to the initial/default state however.

SpootKnight wrote:
Is this behavior different from what I picture? Since the reticle indicates the point of impact, it would hide past the HUD border if you're not properly oriented or fast enough. At least, I remember this was something every game did.

Ace Combat had the reticule always on-screen except when it was impossible to deploy the bomb. Then again, I guess the games' bomb system was weird in that your pylons inexplicably lobbed bombs straight forward like they were cricket bowlers. Though in saying that, shouldn't the physics of the action result in the bombs retaining some form of forward velocity as they were dropped, so your reticule wouldn't snoop around off-screen?

Unless you were somehow at a velocity of zero, sure. I don't mean to say it as if bombs go straight down after being deployed, but just from what I remember (if not from Ace Combat, then from other games I haven't played for years), you could be moving slow enough or pointed high enough that the reticle is hidden.

Has the issue with typing messages and stuff in-game (in Multiplayer and the Editors) been fixed? That is, you can't type spaces, and typing has to be done really really slowly otherwise the game won't register keystrokes.

@ Spoot

Know that I think about it, you're right. In VT however, the reticule moves off the screen even if you're flying level, which it doesn't do in Ace Combat.

The 'Use View Coords' in Mission Editor for Destroyers (possibly others) are broken and end up inside the tab so you can't click them.

Edited by: MyHatismyFriend

Nergal01 wrote: Would be a different story if it's actually resets the keybinding back to the initial/default state however.

It is possible, I haven´t checked this issue

About bomb dropping one solution could be when you hold "change target" the camera will look to where the bomb will land.

but I noticed there is a real issue that the reticule is not accurate when flying at low level.
but in other hand it is possible to make a Over-the-shoulder delivery

Can´t type spaces? have you checked the latest version? because I believe I´ve fixed that ages ago.

Off topic: Don't forget to read my messages Times.

Back on topic: I thought I would point out some issues I've come across in the V0.9098+MP build. First thing I noticed was this:

• The MiG-21I/1 challenge, every time I click on it and load the challenge it drops to Windows and throws up an error code. I1196.photobucket.com
• Apparently I already completed two campaigns twice. But I think its a glitch due to the chain of numbers and the e+. I1196.photobucket.com
• Theres a few other glitches like the A.I. flying through the lip of the nuke crater and certain hills.
• Some times the music just stops as well and only comes back on if I change the master volume gauge (speaking of which could the dals be increased in size some time?) I don't know how t happens but if it does again I'll save the log for yeah.

Edited by: mittsommerschnee

Did the EA build get released? :0

Unfortunately no, I just used the last tester key I was sure that it wasn´t been used to ask Midsummersnow to give me an review of the final build.

Then how did Snow get a hold of the build?

MyHatismyFriend wrote: Then how did Snow get a hold of the build?

TimeS sent me the the last tester key so I could do a quick independent review on the game and my thoughts on changes from the Desura Build to the Steam Build. So far I'm really liking the changes you guys have done (especially the soundtrack). I'm still in the process of writing up the review in my free time after work. If I've spoiled anything I'm sorry.

Edited by: mittsommerschnee

Ah, ok.

Midsummersnow wrote:

MyHatismyFriend wrote: Then how did Snow get a hold of the build?

TimeS sent me the the last tester key so I could do a quick independent review on the game and my thoughts on changes from the Desura Build to the Steam Build. So far I'm really liking the changes you guys have done (especially the soundtrack). I'm still in the process of writing up the review in my free time after work. If I've spoiled anything I'm sorry.

If you say something about the voices, god almighty I'll quit right now because I'm just waiting for the new batch to be put in and the old batch to come out.

F-104CCV Challenge is very very broken- fails on start and then your F-104 family XP increases rapidly.

Sound effects aren't top notch yet. I'll be fixing that along the way though.

Suprise Party Mission in RB Campaign's carrier reinforcements hilariously self-destruct upon arrival leaving only two P-48s and a Destroyer to help out. In addition the lead P-48 is floating.

On the note of campaign we should probably give the Mirage F-1 and Su-25 some placeholder SP weapons.

Radio Chatter Voice Modulator is still out of control

Well nothing major TimeS. But something I noticed when I was playing around in multiplayer.

• Description: During a multiplayer match Vector Thrust (or maybe Steamworks) transcribes my SteamID incorrectly. The letter w is shown as an x on the target box (see screenshot).
• Affects Version/s: 0.9099+MP
• Game modes: Multiplayer
• Steps to reproduce: Via having a w in your SteamID.
• Screenshot: Cloud-4.steampowered.com (Topleft corner)

Edited by: mittsommerschnee

Backspacing to delete a number in the skirmish select field in the airplane filter makes the player back out of the main menu

Edited by: flyawaynow

F-104G challenge crashes on completion. Also the Kormoran missiles used have a very wobbly trail.

This is Early Access for a reason people, remember that. Though our lonely vigil is done, our duty to aid this game's development is not.