MG suppression bug

Jump back to quoted post13 Jul 2017, 11:31 AMMr.Smith

So, in case you aren't aware of this, there's a bug in CoH2 that suppression penalties can sometimes remain permanently active on machineguns.

This has an effect that it can make MGs permanently unable to suppress, after the bug has happened (and no matter how many times you try to recrew the MG).

This bug has something to do with getting your MG suppressed, and failing to setup before suppression wears off. The bug, most likely, only affects non-deathloop affecting MGs (e.g., MG42, MG34 and Vickers), but I might be wrong.

My guess is that the bug may also affect mortar teams.

In the interest of testing a bugfix, we need to have precise reproduction steps for the bug. Can somebody help?

Jump back to quoted post14 Jul 2017, 03:17 AMZombiFrancis

Decrew a pinned MG during its reload animation.

Replicated multiple times in Cheatmod.

Spawn an MG42, set it to vet 1 so you can manually trigger a reload animation.

Get the MG42 pinned. (teleport it into enemy base MG).

Force the MG into moving. It has to pack up and move. Being pinned forces it to set up, so running it into a base MG is reliable.

Right before it dies, fire incendiary rounds. Or just use cheatmod command to kill 1 entity to decrew mid animation.

Broken MG upon recrew.

I am pretty sure i would fire incendiary rounds mid pack-up/set-up as it died.

But I had 5 MG42s in a row that couldn't suppress a conscript squad.

They did deal damage still, however.

Jump back to quoted post16 Jul 2017, 10:40 AMJohnSmith

I tried reproducing the bug as well, but I couldn't reproduce it in the newest mod version. I thought it was just me not being through enough. @ZombiFrancis, do you mind sharing a replay of you reproducing it?