November 2018
Yeah I just downloaded the game and it took me forever to find the spark plugs cause I couldn’t use the binoculars. Stupid problem that could easily be fixed.
December 2018
January 2019
Product: Battlefield 1
Platform:Microsoft XBOX One
Summarize your bug This is yet another listing for the binoculars issue. Whenever the player picks up an a weapon, the binoculars seemingly becomes an active item instead of a passive item and is forced out of inventory. it can be picked up, but it will be held by the player and will drop when changing weapons. This bug has been here a long time and is massively immersion breaking.
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Start the through mud and blood, although it can happen in almost every level. Check the binos with rb, which should initially work. Go to the tower and get the sniper rife and you should find the binos completely gone from the inventory. It is actually floating head level where you picked up the weapon. It will teleport to the ground and after a small time will disappear completely.
What happens when the bug occurs? Mentioned Above
Please select your region North America
In what game mode did the bug occur? Single Player Campaign
In what Single Player War Story did the bug occur? Through Mud and Blood
AMD or Nvidia Model Number N/A
Enter RAM memory size in GB N/A
Product: Battlefield 1
Platform:Microsoft XBOX One
Summarize your bug This is yet another listing for the binoculars issue. Whenever the player picks up an a weapon, the binoculars seemingly becomes an active item instead of a passive item and is forced out of inventory. it can be picked up, but it will be held by the player and will drop when changing weapons. This bug has been here a long time and is massively immersion breaking.
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Start the through mud and blood, although it can happen in almost every level. Check the binos with rb, which should initially work. Go to the tower and get the sniper rife and you should find the binos completely gone from the inventory. It is actually floating head level where you picked up the weapon. It will teleport to the ground and after a small time will disappear completely.
What happens when the bug occurs? Mentioned above
Please select your region North America
In what game mode did the bug occur? Single Player Campaign
In what Single Player War Story did the bug occur? Through Mud and Blood
AMD or Nvidia Model Number N/A
Enter RAM memory size in GB N/A
March 2019
Binoculars still work while on a horse.
April 2019
July 2019
In campain when I pick up another weapon than my starter weapon witch the game advises me to do, I lose my binoculars they just drop on the ground. If I pick them up I will hold them in my hand, but if I switch weapons they drop if I melee they do not drop but if I equip melee weapon they drop
July 2019
Hey @peroskar75
I found a Thread that might be helpful to you:
Take a look at what Travis mentioned, and let us know if that works for you.
Thanks
- iluminate
September 2019
So this is clearly an unfixed bug, missions even tells you to "hold Q to use binoculars", and holding Q does nothing, because you unintentionally have dropped them while picking up new weapon to replace one without ammo.
This kind of bugs should be fixed before release. Guess EA does not bug test their games at all or just release games with known bugs without any intention to fix them.
Glad i bought this from discount, and never going to buy any BF game anymore because this kind of bugs are not fixed.
I like to play SP campaigns mostly, and there are few missions where you are prompted to use binoculars to make things easier, but no you cannot use them if you want to use other weapons than those you get in the start of the game. Even if you run out of ammo, you cannot pick any other weapon or you lose your binoculars. What a crappy design.
February 2020 - last edited February 2020
Problem still exists on PC. Binoculars drop once you open a crate and you can only pick them up a very short time, whereafter you cannot use a weapon unless you drop the binoculars again. This issue still exists after multiple years...
March 2020