So I wasn’t entirely sure where to put this, but what happens is this:
Symptoms:
Afterburner VFX do not play.
Afterburner audio does not play.
Energy bar depletion is jerky and bounces around when afterburning.
Afterburner only imparts partial speed increase (It seems to only be working at 60% capacity)
What I did:
I changed some HUD settings, target auto-locking, and tweaked the afterburner auto-re-enable feature (definitely a suspect) to tailor the gameplay more to my liking. Obviously the game had other ideas.
I can provide some screenshots or possibly a video of this in action if that is desired.
One fix I am trying to attempt is reset all settings. There does not seem to be a single master default button so I am attempting this by deleting the game’s settings file, which I cant find. If anyone can point me to this so I may attempt this solution, I’m all for it.
EDIT:
Some additional info I left out:
Restarting the game will sometimes alleviate the bug, though it only remains fixed for 1-2 matches. The bug did not coincide with the new patch and is not a product of it near as I can tell.