Unable to fire guns. Bug or Pilot Error?

[56RAF_Roblex]

 

My squad has had a few cases of pilots finding out mid flight that they cannot fire guns.   I had it tonight.   Is this an unavoidable bug or is it something avoidable or fixable?

 

It is nothing to do with changing settings as I had landed after using my guns and moved to a different server, took off (in Yak-1b) and I had no guns.    Mid flight I tried going into Settings and setting my joystick trigger as the second key as well and it happily  recognised I was pulling the trigger and added it but it did not fix the problem. I then set up the space bar to be the second fire key instead and that did not fix it either.   So in summary, the joystick was working and the game was seeing the trigger being pulled or the space bar being pressed but it did nothing.  Maybe the bug is that it leaves your guns empty?

[LFL-EightyPLUS]

Maybe frozen? or jammed because of pulling to much G forces? Dont know if any of that is even modeled...But it would be cool though.

[ShamrockOneFive]

I have not experienced that at all. Does it only happen in multiplayer or single player too?

[Pupo]

A similar thing as happened to me before, but I've not been able to track down the issue and make a report about it. But sometimes my fire buttons don't work for about a minute. Then they start working again. This happens in single-player. I've confirmed that the joystick (g940) is not faulty and that it is not plane dependent. Everything else is a mystery. Sometimes it happens multiple times in the same flight, sometimes it doesn't happen for days in a row.

[56RAF_Roblex]

This was online (in Coconut Expert).  I did not try shooting until half way through the sortie but it certainly lasted over 15 minutes while I tried various fixes.   I have never seen it in SP but most of my flying has been MP up until recently.    It is the first time I have seen the bug myself but a few squadmates have seen it before.    I shall make a point of always testing my guns when I spawn in to see if I can find what causes it.

Edited April 15, 2018 by 56RAF_Roblex

[BubiHUN]

Happened with some of our squadmates too, with different planes, on WoL. Then they picked another plane and it was okay. 

[KoN_]

Happened to me online ,  few times no guns even though rounds were showing in cockpit at first I thought I had chosen empty load out . Told  squad mates no guns . Landed checked and had full weapon load out .

Also some times no traser could be seen when pulling trigger  in online servers changed to 1mb up and down . Solved no traser . Multiplayer seems to have been hit hard with this new patch .

[[APAF]VR_Spartan85]

Blame ground crew.....  

 

i havent experienced this and hope I do not... but let’s hope we can get an update this week on what to expect in the next few weeks regarding patches and fixes most of all...

[ACG_KaiLae]

There's an issue sometimes where if you don't check closely, instead of guns it loads aerobatic smoke. Had this happen to me on wings of potato and didn't notice until I tried to fire. 

[KoN_]

Like i said its happend a few times maybe twice with me no guns,  i even went into key settings while in auto and set joystick trigger up again and still no guns , landed and retook off guns working i know test on the ground but since going 1mb up and 1mb down not had this issue  .

Ive never seen the aerobatic smoke thing in loadouts i play 90% online . 

[Guest deleted@83466]

Me and a wingman just encountered this recently, using version 3.002b, but I had also seen it in 3.001.  Ammo counters showed guns were loaded, but they couldn't be charged.