Fortress

I was playing this map before and started ghosting, apparently way off the map with little sign I would ever stop or return to play. I went on this way for several minutes and disconnected just to force an end to the game(i was the last player alive) and technically i was violating server rules by being that far from the bugs anyway. Is this a glitch that can be fixed or do we have to consider pulling the map?

Thanks,
The Count

This has happened to me on a few other maps... Grassyknoll and the ONS map with the bridge if I recall correctly.

I think (but this is just my opinion) that it's ghost bugging out once out of a hundred or so times.

That's happened to me on a couple of maps. I know grassyknoll was one of them, can't remember the rest.

Kyraeu, are you thinking of ONS-RoadRage? (Large, tattered bridge. Bases located on a hill at both ends.)

Yep, that's it. I don't care much for VINV so I don't bother knowing any of the maps.

This also happened to me on Deck17...

Okay, here's what's going on.

Frankly, I almost feel like it's a bug that Ghost works, and not the other way around. At the moment, the way it calculates when you're supposed to unghost is by calculating two vectors:
The vector difference between your current position and your position last tick
The vector difference between your current and destination positions

Those numbers and calculations are updated once per tick. When magnitude of the vector tracking the distance you moved between last tick and the current one is less than that of the vector between you and your destination, you pop back into the game.

It's absolutely possible that the game can "miss" that one critical moment for any number of reasons, even a lag burst on your local system.

So let's say I am spectating you while you are ghosting. Your character misses the destination position and you move towards infinity. If the problem is caused by a lag burst, wouldn't the server still be aware that you have, in theory, arrived at your destination and reflect this change on my end? Whenever I observe someone ghosting into nothingness I end up following them and do not stop at their true destination point.

No. You move in a constant direction. Once you miss your destination, there's no check that you're moving away from your destination and not toward. And the server only checks what I mentioned above, nothing else.

So you just keep on a-goin'.