Whats up with those Gift Weapons?

[ICEBIKE]

With 2.5 I seem to get a Gift of all weapons that can use a specific ammo just by running over some ammo.

Run over some rockets, and get the grenade launcher, rocket launcher, and mortar all at once.

Whats up with that?

Run over some energy packs and I get the Nex, railgun, etc. (Nex does not actually work till I pick up the real weapon, but it pretends to).

[[-z-]]

You have to be more specific about maps and servers. This could be a server mod.

[ICEBIKE]

You have to be more specific about maps and servers. This could be a server mod.

No remote server.
I'm just practicing against the Bots, I don't have the bandwidth to be competitive on very may servers.


Every map I've tried.

Run over the Amo for the rail gun and I instantly have the rail, the nex and everything that uses that amo.

It unreal.
All I did was unzip 2.5 overlaying my 2.4.2 and this started happening.


Oh, and if I die with a rocket launcher, I will be reborn with one, but upon first shot it changes to the shotgun. Very annoying.

Platform Vista, core2quad.

[ai]

All I did was unzip 2.5 overlaying my 2.4.2 and this started happening.

What you mean, you unzipped 2.5 inside your 2.4.2 Nexuiz folder and overwriting?
You need to unzip it to a new folder.

[divVerent]

Can't reproduce this problem, sorry.

Can anyone else?

ICEBIKE: can you record a demo, and during that, execute the command "cmd cvar_changes" on the console?

[esteel]

A small bug was found the 'switch on pickup' code.. which might also try to switch to your best available gun even when you just picked up ammo. So maybe you already hold that gun and when you pickup some extra ammo it switches to that gun.
That bug was fixed for the next bugfix release but please do what DivVerent asked to see if that was really the problem. If it is you can try to disable autoswitching.

[ICEBIKE]

A small bug was found the 'switch on pickup' code.. which might also try to switch to your best available gun even when you just picked up ammo. So maybe you already hold that gun and when you pickup some extra ammo it switches to that gun.

Ah, that might explain it. But I know for sure I was't holding the weapon, because it happens right after the start of a level.

I have a demo recorded, but forgot the cvars changed list thingie, so I will record another.
I can't play the demo with the ply or playdemo command, it says it can't open the file, so I am not totally sure it recorded correctly. Or, it could be I'm caught in Vista hell...

The wiki says I should have a demo menu but it does not appear anywhere I can find.

And then how/where do I upload said demo? Its less than 500kb.

UPDATE: Yup it was Vista Hell. Created new demo (and it created a new demos directory and put my old demos directory inside of that) and the new demo can be played, as can the old demo when I move it from nexuiz/demos/demos to nexuiz/demos. (I have no idea why that happens. The first directory was created automatically when I recorded, but it would not load from there until i created another demo).

Ok that just leave how/where to upload? Some website somewhere? In the forum?

[ICEBIKE]

Ok here is the demo I recorded.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/nyzmdnawwdm/gifts2.dem

Upon entry, I cycle thru weapons with mouse wheel
Then I pick up rocket ammo
It shows that I am immediately given a rocket launcher.
I cycle thru weapons to show all that were Gifted...
Fire each
Commit suicide
Reborn with Rocket launcher in hand ?
Fire rocket launcher and it immediately turns into a shotgun and fires.

I subsequently turned off best-weapon switch, but the net effect is the same, run over the ammo = get the weapons.

Thanks in advance....

[ICEBIKE]

Can't reproduce this problem, sorry.

Can anyone else?

ICEBIKE: can you record a demo, and during that, execute the command "cmd cvar_changes" on the console?

Did this, but nothing printed., and it did not appear in the demo.

[esteel]

That demo is very very strange as i do not see the guns you hold! And what you say about the missing demo menu is also strange. It should be under Multiplayer/Demos
Is this really a clean install of Nexuiz 2.5? No nothing added? No custommaps or anything? Something looks funky here.
Please do in the console:

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cvar_check_default

and tell us the output.. i really suspect you have something interfering that does not give you 2.5..