Flashlight not visible to others after pressing F to select other items

[Wüstenfuchs (DayZ) 105]

Date/Time: Night

What happened: When you use flashlight (or a gun with flashlight), and press F to choose something else such as smoke grenades, other players won't see your light anymore. You will still see your own light.

Where you were: Irrelevant.

What you were doing: Irrelevant.

*Current installed version: 1.5.7

*Server(s) you were on: EU9

*Your system specs: Irrelevant, happens to everyone.

*Timeline of events before/after error:

1) Have flashlights and other items (such as chemlights, smoke grenades or flares) in your inventory

2) Take flashlight in hand, and turn it on: other people will see your light

3) Now press F to select smoke, chem or flares: Other people will no longer see your light, but you can see it

4) Now press F until your flashlight is again selected:: other people will see your light

This bug seems to be true for all flashlights, including those attached to weapons such as G17. This will allow people to cheat in night missions by allowing them to see in the dark with their flashlight while others not being able to see the light from their flashlight.

[Wüstenfuchs (DayZ) 105]

A little update on this. Originally I thought this was an ArmA 2 problem, and created an issue in dev-heaven: https://dev-heaven.net/issues/31642

After some testing, it turned out that ArmA 2 does not have this problem, and further testing proved that it is not related to usage of selectPlayer command.

Conclusion: This bug is caused by something in the dayZ mod.

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I found a Flashlight, but hmmm is it working or not?

I hold in my hand instead of the revolver and pressed "L", nothing worked.

Batteries seem to be with it?!