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Zombie bug

Postby MirceaKitsune » Wed Sep 24, 2008 8:20 am

I had this bug many times while playing on servers with the latest 2.4.2 official release; When I get killed and my camera falls down and the scoreboard is displayed on the screen until I press the jump / fire keys to respawn, there are times when if I press jump, fire or the movement keys (not sure which of them) I'm suddenly able to move around like a normal player again (stuck in crouch mode but I move very fast) and without even having a weapon in my hand although I can shoot with some ammo and get killed again.

The scoreboard also sticks to the screen so this is some kind of half-respawn / zombie bug after you die. Usually after I walk around like that for a little while the scoreboard closes and I see a weapon in my hand again, although when this happened once I was still stuck in crouch and moving really fast until I jumped once. This bug also doesn't happen very often so it may take a while until you see it (just keep pressing movement keys or jump soon after you die, not sure which does this)
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Postby Ed » Wed Sep 24, 2008 8:58 am

It could actually be that you are respawing but your view remains as if you are dead. There used to be a bug for that and I'm not sure if it got killed off properly or not.
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Postby MirceaKitsune » Wed Sep 24, 2008 9:12 am

Ed wrote:It could actually be that you are respawing but your view remains as if you are dead. There used to be a bug for that and I'm not sure if it got killed off properly or not.


Yes... it does look as something of that type.
<Taoki> ... So maybe the new colored bars under the sbar weapons could indicate ammo level rather than accuracy stats.
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Postby halogene » Wed Sep 24, 2008 9:23 am

I can confirm that bug, happens to me sometimes too. I usually can get rid of the strange view by crouching once. The weapon usually reappears when I change it to another one.

No idea about the scoreboard - I can't remember I had that on my screen too. Maybe it dissappears when you press the "show scoreboard" button (I think it is "TAB" per default, not sure).

I am using client version 2.4.2 still, so it might well be this is fixed in svn version.

I really gotta take the time to install the svn version... some day... eventually...
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Postby divVerent » Wed Sep 24, 2008 9:55 am

It is a protocol bug that won't be fixed anytime soon (it is packet loss related). Maybe once we can network player entities with CSQC, we can fix the problem by letting the client handle the death tilt.
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Postby Mirio » Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:35 pm

for those who do not know what this topic is about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YY2WHKAwsE

i had it before some days :P
most of the time its after "quad kills" like that "bug" :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX83kkLJ7lg
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Postby Alien » Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:55 pm

I think this bug happens because of packet loss. Personally I only got this playing online. It fixes itself after death, iirc.
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Postby MirceaKitsune » Wed Sep 24, 2008 2:02 pm

Mirio wrote:for those who do not know what this topic is about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YY2WHKAwsE


Yeah that's the one... just that in my case I still had the scoreboard permanently displaying and the weapon didn't display in my hand though I could shoot. Then that went away and I remained with the crouching bug only until jumping or next life.
<Taoki> ... So maybe the new colored bars under the sbar weapons could indicate ammo level rather than accuracy stats.
<Morphed> great now there is a place to show current phase of moon on hud
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Postby Mirio » Wed Sep 24, 2008 2:56 pm

if you cross a teleporter it will be away too
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Postby KillaGrunt » Thu Sep 25, 2008 2:14 am

Its pretty wierd
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