Explosion bug in 2.5

[MC SE7EN]

Hey all... love 2.5. Found a weird bug though. Explosions stick around your barrel. See the screenshots to see what I mean.... I believe it occurs whenever you die with an explosion right in front of you. It may also be if you die while firing. It's only happened in hectic battles, so I can't really tell which is causing it. My brother also has had the same thing happen. He says it happened when an explosion killed him (it was in front of him). I am pretty sure I have had it happen even when I didn't die (in fact, I'm pretty sure I didn't die in the time these screenshots are from, because I had a Crylink...) Here are the screenies....

1) When it first happened.



2) Switching weapons with the glitch. I had another showing after the weapon had switched, but it didn't come out (weird...) Anyway, the next weapon had it as well....

[ai]

This is a packet loss situation. How it works: The server sends you a packet with this firing sequence, (the explosion) you get a few of this packets but some are lost and you never get them, thus the ending never took place on your machine and it sticks around for a while.
With other words, the servers tells you something but you couldn't hear what it was.
Usually these disappear shortly after.

This is network/internet related. Nothing anyone can really do anything about but to get/create a more stable internet connection. This particular packet loss however seems to be very common for some reason. I've got it a few times, so have many others.

[divVerent]

Well, there seems to be an unknown engine bug regarding entity networking. But entity networking of the entities that show the bug on your shots (muzzle flash, and weapon entity) has not changed at all from 2.4.2 to 2.5, so the fact that it appears more probably means packet loss has become more common nowadays.

Maybe ISPs are throttling traffic more than last year...

[MC SE7EN]

Actually, when it happened to me, I was on a single-player game, as was my brother... Neither of us were connected to other servers....

[GreEn`mArine]

I've had evenings where on one server I had this like 2-3 times per map. Then, another evening, on the same server, nothing bad happened at all!

[divVerent]

Can you make a savegame when this happens?

On the console:

save bug.sav

Then upload this bug.sav file somewhere.

[MC SE7EN]

ok, next time i get it ill do that...

[esteel]

divVerent: do you still think your latest change helped? So maybe people can also try playing at your/mine server and see if they still get problems. Sure that will not tell for sure its gone, but still, if it would never happen on your servers its a good chance it helped

[MC SE7EN]

My brother got the glitch again and I had him save the file for you guys: http://www.mediafire.com/?2zxjtzhdvdi

He was on single-player, Soylent Space.

[GreEn`mArine]

in case I'm playing on an server I have rcon access to, I'll do the savegame (no idea if that helps or works)