DUST Search - Black Screen in Battle

Banjo Hero wrote:

Just had this for the first time in quite some time - I think it had happened once before, pretty much the same thing: I have a black screen, and my squadmates are having a laugh because I'm unarmed and moving blindly around :D

Around 19:40 EDT, region NA, map Line Harvest

Spawned to the black screen. I was pretty much randomly hitting buttons, noticed that I could hear the sounds of the cursor moving around on the player list screen, or in the OMS menu, and hit [O], then [down] and the map actually came up. When I hit [circle] again, I was able to see, but was still unarmed, couldn't sprint, and couldn't melee. I COULD interact with things, could drive an LAV, and use its turret, could use a blaster installation.

I took a LAV to go to the Supply Depot, but changing suits just gave me the same Black Screen Of Death. My little map trick worked again, but I still had no weapons or gear. Get killed in pretty short order by a red dot, and spawned on the MCC to wait the game out. The map thing no longer worked to restore my sight, but I could look at the map, and while it was up, the chat window, NeoCom menu and player list worked normally.

Rebooted PS3, just logging back in now.

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S Park Finner BetaMax. CRONOS. 99	Posted - 2013.03.15 14:15:00 - [1] - Quote There were some downloads (graphics?) today. Game started OK and war barge looked OK First battle entered was instant battle ambush. Battle started OK on Skim Junction (With CRU and Supply Depot across the road from each other) but -- On entering battle -- I was in the game (died) but all I saw was a black screen -- had sound. Got the enter battle screen -- did -- same thing again. Died. Quit game, restarted PS3. Did not happen the second match I entered. Found this post from Feb, 2013. No one responded to it. Also this one and this post from the same time frame which might be related. It looks like this is a recurring problem that has not got on CCP's radar that we know of.
S Park Finner BetaMax. CRONOS. 99	Posted - 2013.03.15 15:00:00 - [2] - Quote Update-- a corp mate had the same problem on the same map.
Mr Gloo Gloo What The French CRONOS. 35	Posted - 2013.03.15 15:21:00 - [3] - Quote Hey, Just got it at 15.16 EVE time, EU. Enter a game. Can choose to spawn, and choose your fit. Countdown then black screen before spawn staying. The thing is that we really spawned ... The controller doesn't see nothing, but others can see you on the battlefield WITHOUT ANY WEAPON !!!! Just your harms along your body, walking around and getting kill... Issue happening to corpm8s too, it was the first time for me. Repeat : Black screen, can walk around the map without any weapon. Don't know how to reproduce it.
Ulme Mees Eesti Leegion 0	Posted - 2013.03.15 15:22:00 - [4] - Quote Exactly the same problem here. First match same thing, then left battle tried new one and it worked fine. Third try black screen....... and then 4. and 5. everything was ok. Didnt reboot PS3 nor did I restart the game. Peace.
Kinkku-Ananas Kepappi Tal-Romon Legion Amarr Empire 0	Posted - 2013.03.15 15:23:00 - [5] - Quote Getting the same.
Mr Gloo Gloo What The French CRONOS. 35	Posted - 2013.03.15 15:30:00 - [6] - Quote Further information. Log into a game. Deploy on the battlefield. Get a Black Screen (you are deploy on the battlefield) Spam "Start" button, there you can see something --> you don't have weapon, you can't sprint. Get killed Try to respawn, black screen etc... You should have canceled that one 2 !!!
S Park Finner BetaMax. CRONOS. 99	Posted - 2013.03.15 15:33:00 - [7] - Quote Update: Had it happen on a different map. Same symptoms. Had to quit game. Has anyone tried leaving the battle once you get killed and starting another battle? Does the problem carry over to the new battle?
Kinkku-Ananas Kepappi Tal-Romon Legion Amarr Empire 0	Posted - 2013.03.15 15:42:00 - [8] - Quote S Park Finner wrote: Update: Had it happen on a different map. Same symptoms. Had to quit game. Has anyone tried leaving the battle once you get killed and starting another battle? Does the problem carry over to the new battle? Yes it carries over. And two ps3 reboots didn't fix it. I didn't have this problem in the one Ambush maps we tried, but got it 3 times in Skirmish before giving up.
Vethosis MURDA TEAM 0	Posted - 2013.03.15 16:13:00 - [9] - Quote confirmed bug
Jump Up Algintal Core Gallente Federation 8	Posted - 2013.03.15 16:14:00 - [10] - Quote S Park Finner wrote: Update: Had it happen on a different map. Same symptoms. Had to quit game. Has anyone tried leaving the battle once you get killed and starting another battle? Does the problem carry over to the new battle? it didn't carry over for me. i didn't even exit out of dust, just went to another match after posting about this problem

Django Quik R.I.f.t 267	Posted - 2013.03.15 16:20:00 - [11] - Quote Having same problem right now, as did half my corp mates on the same match
S Park Finner BetaMax. CRONOS. 99	Posted - 2013.03.15 16:27:00 - [12] - Quote Has anyone had this problem in Skirmish?
Marc Rime Zumari Force Projection Caldari State 48	Posted - 2013.03.15 17:34:00 - [13] - Quote S Park Finner wrote: Has anyone had this problem in Skirmish? Yes.
HowDidThatTaste Imperfects Negative-Feedback 2316	Posted - 2013.03.15 17:40:00 - [14] - Quote Can't get in a match because of this. Tried all three game modes same black screen can hear the battle just can't see anything. Decided to try and play an alt character and same bug happened?
Naturi Riclenore BetaMax. CRONOS. 126	Posted - 2013.03.15 18:17:00 - [15] - Quote here is the black screen live and in person as captured by someone (not me) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFj2spbOezM&feature=youtu.be
Jump Up Algintal Core Gallente Federation 8	Posted - 2013.03.15 18:26:00 - [16] - Quote i started my own "black screen of death" thread before i noticed this one. i haven't had a problem after posting until just now on the same skirmish map. i don't remember the game, it's the map with 3 capture points. i wish the name of the map would pop up when looking at the map overview.
Foley Jones SVER True Blood Unclaimed. 124	Posted - 2013.03.15 18:29:00 - [17] - Quote Its getting kinda annoying :/ hope they fiix this in the next down time
Sada Mokmo DUST University Ivy League 6	Posted - 2013.03.15 20:52:00 - [18] - Quote i got this on 3 out of the 5 rounds i tried to start... Wasn't even able to pull up the map... I also tried switching between my tv's HDMI sources to no avail. I could only head the sounds of the game around me and my squadmates accepting that i was resetting... (only happened on one game) My console is the latest 250GB model. They can fix it right now if they know what's wrong. Just end everyone's round and go into downtime. I'd prefer this to having the whole corp complaining tonight...
Godspear Godspearsson Janus Industries. 1	Posted - 2013.03.15 20:58:00 - [19] - Quote Just got this to, could get into the map for abit, then all went black. could only restart the game via the PS3 button. on the latest 250 GB model, HDMI connection and Opical sound.
The Goram Batman Forgotten Militia 14	Posted - 2013.03.15 23:51:00 - [20] - Quote I've got the bug once out of two games so far, which lead to a hard freeze in the quarters when I backed out. And one of my corp mates has gotten it once as well, then froze up in the middle of the next game. As it is, this is starting to feel like a reminiscence to the days of closed beta, when it was a pain to keep a squad together because of all these bugs causing us to have to drop and everything. Hopefully CCP does something soon, as I'm not looking forward to having to deal with this...

S Park Finner BetaMax. CRONOS. 99	Posted - 2013.03.16 00:02:00 - [21] - Quote Some folks have suggested you can get past the black screen by spamming "start". I can't confirm that. But here's a video of what happens if you _do_ get past it. I couldn't resist posting the link.
Panther Alpha WarRavens 121	Posted - 2013.03.16 00:04:00 - [22] - Quote Just out of curiosity ... do any of you guys has tried to re-install the game yet ? I only asking this because i recently re-installed Dust 514 trying to fix the "No Stats" bug, and i haven't have this problem in 4 hours of solid play. Maybe someone could try re-installing, and see what happens ?
Banjo Hero BurgezzE.T.F Orion Empire 53	Posted - 2013.03.16 00:08:00 - [23] - Quote Just had this for the first time in quite some time - I think it had happened once before, pretty much the same thing: I have a black screen, and my squadmates are having a laugh because I'm unarmed and moving blindly around :D Around 19:40 EDT, region NA, map Line Harvest Spawned to the black screen. I was pretty much randomly hitting buttons, noticed that I could hear the sounds of the cursor moving around on the player list screen, or in the OMS menu, and hit [O], then [down] and the map actually came up. When I hit [circle] again, I was able to see, but was still unarmed, couldn't sprint, and couldn't melee. I COULD interact with things, could drive an LAV, and use its turret, could use a blaster installation. I took a LAV to go to the Supply Depot, but changing suits just gave me the same Black Screen Of Death. My little map trick worked again, but I still had no weapons or gear. Get killed in pretty short order by a red dot, and spawned on the MCC to wait the game out. The map thing no longer worked to restore my sight, but I could look at the map, and while it was up, the chat window, NeoCom menu and player list worked normally. Rebooted PS3, just logging back in now.
Bling Blaine FrontLine-Coalition 3	Posted - 2013.03.16 00:13:00 - [24] - Quote Banjo Hero wrote: Just had this for the first time in quite some time - I think it had happened once before, pretty much the same thing: I have a black screen, and my squadmates are having a laugh because I'm unarmed and moving blindly around :D Around 19:40 EDT, region NA, map Line Harvest Spawned to the black screen. I was pretty much randomly hitting buttons, noticed that I could hear the sounds of the cursor moving around on the player list screen, or in the OMS menu, and hit [O], then [down] and the map actually came up. When I hit [circle] again, I was able to see, but was still unarmed, couldn't sprint, and couldn't melee. I COULD interact with things, could drive an LAV, and use its turret, could use a blaster installation. I took a LAV to go to the Supply Depot, but changing suits just gave me the same Black Screen Of Death. My little map trick worked again, but I still had no weapons or gear. Get killed in pretty short order by a red dot, and spawned on the MCC to wait the game out. The map thing no longer worked to restore my sight, but I could look at the map, and while it was up, the chat window, NeoCom menu and player list worked normally. Rebooted PS3, just logging back in now. I had the same experimental experience. Not able to start any games of skirmish. Using 250gb new slim Re dling the game data
Brasidas Kriegen The Southern Legion 0	Posted - 2013.03.16 02:26:00 - [25] - Quote Just had the same problem; when spawned all I got was a black screen, but could hear sound. Pressing start would reveal the map etc as usual, but returning to the game just brought up black screen. PS menu worked as well. Exiting the game and joining a new one seems to have fixed the problem.
Guilbert 515 United Pwnage Service RISE of LEGION 1	Posted - 2013.03.16 17:00:00 - [26] - Quote Had it multiple times with my squad. Upon entering any battle skirmish/ambush you start of with a black screen. The only option is to hit start and exit the battle. Neocom still works while having the black screen. This bug doesnt seem to hit the whole squad but inndividuals randomely. But everything is fine again after leaving the match and start a new one. We had two matches in a row though were first one guy and then another was having a black screen. People get scared to join a match with their advanced equipment ever since. And you see a lot of friendly and enemy zombie mercs just standing their or looking in some direction... This is the apocalype ;)


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