Flashlight is not working

[NguyenSanity 5]

Last night, while playing, me and a buddy were raiding the international airfield. we accidentally fired a shot and the entire airport was on our back. We decided we would sprint into a bunker because we had thought that zeds would have to walk indoors. Unfortunately, they did not slow down their pace at all and continued to chase us. I ran into the firehouse and aborted the mission because dying would mean having to sprint back up there. We were also basically out of ammo by that point.

We logged back on and he turns on his flashlight. I attempt to do the same, but nothing happens. I was holding a G17 and so was he.

I pressed F and switched to a green chemlight and tried to illuminate the darkness. It works, but when I picked it up, everything went dark again for some reason.

I tried pressing F to select my G1 and pressing L

I tried switching guns and pressing L

I tried putting the G17 in my bag and reequipping it, still no luck.

I have tried joining multiple servers since last night and I still can't turn on my flashlight.

[SoS 0]

The same thing was happening to me. Had a buddy that had a flashlight who was using it consistently.

I however was unable to consistently turn mine on. Sometimes it would go on, sometimes it wouldn't, and near the end it just full on would not turn on at all..

[NguyenSanity 5]

Lol i tried to join a server and see if i could drop my g17 and pick it back up and see if it worked.

As soon as I joined i got shot in the head. We should have some type of protection when we just join the server