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Soldat Talk => Need Help? Report Bugs! => Topic started by: -Vis- on July 15, 2006, 12:36:44 am

Title: Two of me, but not...
Post by: -Vis- on July 15, 2006, 12:36:44 am
  Ok. The weirdest thing just happened while I was playing in U13 CTF Public (It resulted in a ban... they thought I was hacking, but I was recording a demo for reference).

  The previous round had just finished, and everything was fine, until the new map started and I spawned (b2b if anyone's wondering). I started to run down the slope, and I started popping around, like other people do when they're lagging, but it was on my screen.
  What's more, the soldier I was controlling was not me. He looked different, like a normal soldier, with plainer colours.

  Now for the amusing(?) part. There was another me, which was all my colours, so evidently I was controlling the wrong soldier. But the really strange thing was that the real me followed almost every movement I made. I tried running around, jumping, shooting, jetting... and the real me followed everything I did.

  Eventually someone did a vote kick, assuming i was hacking (which, I must admit, it does look rather like). So I tried to explain what was going on, but nothing I typed would appear in the chat area. So I stopped the demo, left the game, and tried to rejoin, hoping that would solve the problem.

Well, it probably would have... but... "You have been banned on this server." 8)

I uploaded the demo, so you can see it for yourself. It looks very similar to what I saw on my screen, and you can see what's going on.

(http://filebucket.org/71g871e712/267/WeirdDoubleBug.sdm)



edit: I just tried again... I'm not banned anymore... and the bug is gone 8)
Title: Re: Two of me, but not...
Post by: Raithah on July 15, 2006, 01:11:35 am
I had this happen to me once on a zombie's server. For me, it was switching to the human side that caused it to bug up. Aparently I was also controlling some poor soul's character, with mine following behind. To all who saw the confrontation, it apeared to be a crazy person hitting himself.

The bug seems to happen every once in a while when you have both a laggy connection and a respawn. The only way to solve it, I've found, is to leave the game then come back.
Title: Re: Two of me, but not...
Post by: Nicholas on July 15, 2006, 02:12:31 am
This happened to me at least three times on EnEsCe's dodgeball server. The first time it happened I noticed my guy was moving without me pushing any buttons. It was actually someone on the other team. Pretty soon I saw the message: "killed by (myname)"

I looked at the kill thing in the top right corner, and it said I killed the person who I was "stuck" on. So I was seeing everything from their point of view, even the "killed" message.

Somehow whenever he killed me, it would say that I killed him. He kept shouting "hacker!!" and I was just sitting there, very confused.

Title: Re: Two of me, but not...
Post by: chrisgbk on July 15, 2006, 04:03:22 am
This is a known bug, basically 2 people get assigned the same player slot and they can control each other. Just rejoin the game.