Directly forced into spectator mode..

[m0nk]

Hello guys,

Last night me and my friends updated to Soldat 1.6.
Like everytime we play Im setting up a server and the battle goes on.
BUT after we all installed 1.6 everyone that joins my server is forced into spectator mode. (This also happens if a friend makes the server)
And yes, everyone disabled the spectator box.
Also I tried reinstalling, editing the soldat.ini but no luck

So how can this be? What can we do?

[DarkCrusade]

Any scripts?

[m0nk]

No not at all. Just download and install
Just like we did on version 1.5

[pavliko]

Be sure to uncheck the spectator box thingy before you join a game :>

[DarkCrusade]

And yes, everyone disabled the spectator box.

Be sure to uncheck the spectator box thingy before you join a game :>

Durr.

[ginn]

might be some server setting?

[m0nk]

I didnt change anything 

I mean, I downloaded the game. Installed it. And wanna play...

[Shoozza]

Try to install a clean soldatserver version.

If that doesn't help show us your soldat.ini and server.ini

[BFAD]

I'm actually in the same exact situation. I thought it might be a firewall issue so I placed the server PC into DMZ on my router settings and port forwarded the client PC - which did not help. I too was on 1.5 before so I uninstalled and reinstalled on both machines - same problem. Oh and spectator mode is unchecked.

I went ahead and attached my Soldat.ini, but I was having an issue locating a Server.ini file. I tried running both dedicated and non-dedicated and still received the problem and could not find a server.ini. I hope this helps to troubleshoot!

EDIT: This is only happening on LAN games, internet games work just fine.

[m0nk]

For us its happening on both lan and internet 
I dont have a server.ini.

[st_alker]

I had the same problem. I solved it using setteam console command for each player:
/SETTEAMx [player number] - forces the player to join team x (options 1 for alpha, 2 for bravo, 3 for charlie, 4 for delta and 5 for spectator)
In case of deathmatch I forced my friends to join alpha team (for instance, /SETTEAM1 12). You may learn players' numbers via score board.
Not a straight method but it solved my case.

[ali]

Same thing here. It happens if I or my friend type in the ip address and join on deathmatches. We're put into spectator mode directly even when we have it unchecked. If we play on team mode or one of the team games, then it works..

[spillblood]

I'm having the exact same problem in version 1.6.2. Apparently it hasn't been fixed in the last update. We simply can't play deathmatch, rambomatch and pointmatch because of that, so we simply reverted to version 1.5, 'cause we got pretty angry when trying to get the game to run. You should introduce some button or anything to exit spectator mode/join the game. It also didn't work with dedicated server 2.7.2 (when I started a server and we both joined). LAN play is apparently pretty broken in this version.
UPDATE: In Internet play it works. But that doesn't solve our problems. We want to play deathmatch in LAN.

[Shoozza]

I'm having the exact same problem in version 1.6.2. Apparently it hasn't been fixed in the last update. We simply can't play deathmatch, rambomatch and pointmatch because of that, so we simply reverted to version 1.5, 'cause we got pretty angry when trying to get the game to run. You should introduce some button or anything to exit spectator mode/join the game. It also didn't work with dedicated server 2.7.2 (when I started a server and we both joined). LAN play is apparently pretty broken in this version.
UPDATE: In Internet play it works. But that doesn't solve our problems. We want to play deathmatch in LAN.

Thanks for the info! You are right. I just fixed it on the server side.
But it will be fixed in the next version. I fixed it on the client side by accident when I merged two 3000+ line long files.

Workaround: Run soldatserver 2.7.2 and join it both. I'm not sure why it didn't work for you but it worked for me as the spec join bug is only in the client.

[spillblood]

OK, yeah, I have to correct myself, it works with soldatserver. Last times when I started the server I didn't start the server in commandline, but extracted soldatserver over a soldat installation. When I ran soldat and started a game, a window appeared that showed that I had started a dedicated server, but it seems that some components of the soldat installation I extracted it over caused the same problem that I had when trying to run a soldat server in the client (couldn't join deathmatch games, spectator auto-join).
I'm really hoping you'll fix the normal client so that we can start set up LAN games as easy as it was in the earlier versions, because I'm not really used to run a server in commandline.
UPDATE: OK, found this ARSSE-tool. I'll try this out. Any explanations for the values in soldat.ini (in the dedicated server folder) available?
Hmm, I don't really get how to use ARSEE, can't connect to my own servers with it, maybe it doesn't work anymore with 1.6.2
Update 2: Tried another thing: Setting dedicated server to 1 in soldat.ini in my default soldat installation produces the same error. It really only works when I use the bare dedicated server. Client seems to always mess up LAN.

[Shoozza]

You need to set an admin password in the Soldat.ini of soldatserver
Connect to host: 127.0.0.1 with the correct port (same as the game port) and the password you set in soldat.ini for the server.
You can also use /adminlog <adminpasswordhere> ingame instead of using ARSSE.

As i said before the bug will be fixed in the next release.

[spillblood]

Thanks for the help. The "how to set up a server" section in the forums was also pretty helpful.