Surge force staff melee visual bug lighting effect on melee weapon

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Bugs
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Issue Description:

when using the surge force staff you can switch to your melee mid cast and have a lightning effect on your melee

Steps to Reproduce:
[Please add the steps that can help our QA department in reproducing the issue. For example:]

  1. Play psyker with surge force staff i believe any melee
  2. cast the secondary spell of the staff and switch to melee
  3. Maybe not hit enemy with attack I had trouble in testing
  4. have annoying visual bug :smiley:

Mission Name (If Applicable):

any mission

Platform:
[Steam/Microsoft Store]

Steam

Player ID:
[Steam ID/Steam Profile URL/GamerTag]

Artgail

Approx. Time of Issue & Timezone:
[MM/DD/YYYY, 00:00AM/PM] [TIMEZONE]

11/24/2022 11:40 PM EST

Reproduction Rate:
Pretty common 75% if done right

The timing is a bit tricky but it might be able to be consistent. also might not work if you hit an enemy with the staff spell

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  2. Enter %appdata% within the search input and select ‘OK’
  3. Navigate to AppData\Roaming\Fatshark\Darktide\console_logs
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  5. Upload here

console-2022-11-25-01.06.42-5c7999bb-e4df-464f-8e33-6f553c1bee26.log (961.9 KB)

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  3. Navigate to AppData\Roaming\Fatshark\Darktide
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  5. Upload here

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