Invisible AI

General

Character

Multiplayer

Issue Key

ARGF-269

State

Need more info

Access

Public

Group

Arma Reforger

Project

Game Feedback

Creator

pgshka

Created

Aug 4, 2026

Views

122

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Platform

Game Version

1.7.0.54

Mission

Is it modded?

Section

isItModded = "yes"

List mods

Placeables for GM byHeine
Structures For GM byHeine
Lunacy Audio
PG Admin Monitoring
Disable GM Budget
Tactical Flava
V2-UTF-Scenarios
V2-UTF-Arsenal
UTF Syndicate
Inventory Fix
V2-UTF-Vehicles
V2-UTF-RHS-Radio
UTF Medical Recast
WCS Armaments (7.0.0)
ACE Carrying
ACE Chopping
ACE Finger
ACE Compass
ACE Magazine Repack
ACE Captives
ACE Trenches
Realism Overhaul - Effects
BetterSounds Voice overhaul
Bacon Loadout Editor
Game Master FX
Player Map Markers
Unlimited_Map_Markers
Map Drawing
You can sit
WCS_Earplugs
Bon Action Animations

Description

After the latest patch, I've run into an issue - bots sometimes become invisible to some players, and occasionally to everyone. Meanwhile, they keep acting in the world, including killing. There are no visual or sound effects at all - just silent death.

What I've noticed:

The bug doesn't show up for everyone at once - some players load bots normally and can see them, others can't (or sometimes nobody can). Even when viewing through the game master, such bots may not display a group icon, even though they're marked on the map.
Kills happen completely silently: no attack animation, no sound, no visible activity of any kind.
This isn't just happening to me - I've seen the same thing reported by other players and on other servers.
The bug reproduces even on purely vanilla units, without mods.

My guess is this is a replication issue - some clients (and sometimes all of them) simply aren't receiving bot data in time (or at all), which leaves the bot invisible, while the server-side logic (attacks and everything else) keeps working normally.

My netViewDistance on the server is set to 3000.

Activity

23 days ago

pgshka
created issue23 days ago

22 days ago

l909
Moderator
commented
22 days ago
Hello.
Are you able to reproduce it on completely unmodded version of the game?
l909
changed state to
NEED MORE INFO
22 days ago
pgshkareplied to a comment
22 days ago
I'm not sure, but I'll try, because it happens randomly and it's not clear why. Honestly, I don't even know how I could check whether these groups are replicated for other players

20 days ago

pgshkacommented
20 days ago
An example of what this looks like
https://youtu.be/FTE06JTvplg
l909
Moderator
commented
20 days ago
Hello.
It seems the issue might be coming from Disable GM Budget mod.
Can you try to disable it and let us know if it still occurs?

19 days ago

pgshkareplied to a comment
19 days ago
Hi, I disabled the "Disable GM Budget" mod, let's see what happens
Also, based on observations from my game masters, we found the following:
If a player is at an active point while it's within the AI (reinforcement) spawn loading zone, the groups become invisible (not sure if this applies to all groups)
However, if a player arrives at an active point after the AI have already loaded in, everything works fine. Also, if you leave the active point and then return - causing all the AI to fully load - the invisible bots disappear, meaning everything becomes fine again.
pgshkacommented
19 days ago
@l909 yo, I found the problem, I reproduced it, and... it's an issue similar to this one: https://report.bistudio.com/projects/arma-reforger/game-feedback/ARGF-271
pgshkacommented
19 days ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO9WpN7dnWA

If you don't move the (server) camera (and the server doesn't have a camera), the AI will be invisible to clients until either the client reloads the AI, or the server somehow triggers their spawn
pgshkacommented
19 days ago
I think this has already been fixed, but could you still check it in this scenario, please?
https://dropmefiles.com/0qGMa

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