Disapearing FRU

[imded]

Placed a FRU at Montmedy/Stenay eFB, by laffley.

Despawned the Laffley and came in as sapper.

FRU was visible at this point.

Ran to the eFB and placed 4 on inf tents.

Ran back to fru. The origin counted down meters and map showed MS.

Got to fru and didn't see it at all. Count down was at 0.

No truck showed up in health bar box..

So, had to MIA and respawned in at the FRU location.

It was still invisable and no truck icon in health bar.

I repeated process to finish the eFB.

Was wierd, never happened to me before.

The fru was placed to the NW of eFB. If you follow the bush line (from eFB) that goes NW from the Veh tents to its end (near road). Then I went WEST on road edge to nearest BIG bush. Which was about 4 bushes WEST of the NW bush line from eFB.

[imded]

Had it happen to me again. I had rebooted game, and same problemo.

[olemars]

I just had this happen to me too. Deployed a truck, drove to fb and built fru. Spawned a sapper, jogged to fb and set charges, returned to fru for rearm but when I reached the origin marker there was nothing there. Minimap says mspawn is there, noone is at the Fb but me, noone has killed it. But it's just not visible in the world and I can't rearm from it.

I asked someone in chat to check, and the mission still said that fru was available and people could spawn from it too, but I couldn't see it or rearm. Had to wait for timer and rebuild it.

[imded]

I just had this happen to me too. Deployed a truck, drove to fb and built fru. Spawned a sapper, jogged to fb and set charges, returned to fru for rearm but when I reached the origin marker there was nothing there. Minimap says mspawn is there, noone is at the Fb but me, noone has killed it. But it's just not visible in the world and I can't rearm from it.

I asked someone in chat to check, and the mission still said that fru was available and people could spawn from it too, but I couldn't see it or rearm. Had to wait for timer and rebuild it.

You could have just despawned and come back. Worked for me.

[olemars]

Didn't want to mia more sappers than necessary.

[imded]

The sappers come back after 15 minutes.

[olemars]

I experienced a different kind of disappearing FRU issue yesterday, or rather FRU not appearing in the first place.

The ui lets you build a FRU even if your brigade is moved from the origin town, but the FRU disappears instantly after placing. This I think is a previously known issue (it's a bit confusing and should be fixed though). However, I've had the same thing happen to me even when the brigade isn't moved from the town I spawned in from. I drove my opel for a bit, got green overlay for the fru, built it, got the Forward Resupply Unit Built message, and the FRU instantly disappeared. The only thing I can think of that could be going wrong is that I was a pretty long way from my origin (about 9km), but if there is a max range from origin for FRU's the UI should reflect that and not let me build it in the first place.

It's quite frustrating to think you've successfully placed a FRU and then have it vaporize right away, especially after driving for ages through the woods.

[imded]

That is not a bug. You weren't able to place because of no Brig, or it was not linked, or etc.

I even went to a town that was not linked and the fru was green when I got there, but when FRU was built, it disappeared.

[olemars]

It was probably the not linked part, didn't know that was a condition too.

In any case I would say there is a bug in that it says you can build FRU, then goes through the build process and says the FRU is built, even though it isn't. It should do those requirement checks (brig, link, etc) before building, like it does with range checks.

Edited January 17, 2011 by olemars

[Nick]

I too spawned out of an invisible FRU a couple of days ago, the map said it was there but I couldn't RTB at it, I despawned and respawned and this time I could see it as normal.

[imded]

The fact that you can go through the motions for building a FRU is a pain, only to find out that it failed at the end.

I personally believe there should be no maximum distance limit. If I want to drive 20k to a target, I should be able to set one up.

There should definately be a minimum requirement of 400 meters plus.