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Disapearing weapons? Slow downloads?

TheDruidXpawX — GMT

Greetings all. We just diagnosed a problem with the network today that was throttling us to 10mbit a sec. This could have affected replication and caused weapons to disappear or the firing of them not to work right. This has been resolved, and we're now 100mbit right to the XM network.

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Pyramidion — GMT

Neato! :-o

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supertoast — GMT

Excellent! I had certainly noticed both problems, but assumed nothing of them.

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Sparky*USA* — GMT

:D This is great news Dru....... >:) Hey can we just says it was Ratar's fault:)) :)) :))

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Hobo_Joe — GMT

nah, I say we blame it on Sub...it's more fun :wink:

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UntamedSub — GMT

Great News!!! HEY! LOL.... Stop Hijacking the thread JOE!

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TheDruidXpawX — GMT

I still observed the disappearing weapons yesterday. Has anyone else noticed since I started this thread?

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Sparky*USA* — GMT

I am sorry to say, Last night at the end of one game it did lose the shots. I think it was just a little before you came on. I also noticed that there seems to be alot of skipping (lag) when it starts......

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Mach — GMT

One map I didn't spawn with a link, that was a few day ago and I'm not sure if that is what you mean. Regarding the slow downloads, I was experiencing that, as of yesterday afternoon the downloads were still fairly slow, but about 14 people were on the server.

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TheDruidXpawX — GMT

Ok, I've upgraded our firewall and adjusted some settings. I'm hopeful this will fix the issue. Let me know if you see it again.

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RadicalROM — GMT

It does not happen often, but I think it was saturday, I noticed what I call lagging, were you do not see the shots. I thought, hey it could just be lag, but then it happeneded more. Now it COULD of been me. I was worried it was me, so I did a antispyware and defrag on my system. I played later on Sunday and no problems. I do not know if it was me on Saturday or the server. All I do know is that atleast Sunday night it was fine.

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Fro13 — GMT

Could it be firewall related. I havent had a problem since I opened up the ports for UT, which was probably 6+ months ago. Although, even before that I only experienced the issue a few times. UDP 7777 is the gameplay port. Maybe that will help.

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ECHO — GMT

I'm having the weapon dissapearing act almost every other map I play, but this may be due to my school's internet. However, I moved back to school right around the time you guys were having the 10mbit issues, so I guess all that's left to do is try Fro's suggestion and hope for the best.

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TheDruidXpawX — GMT

I'm seeing this problem myself, and I really dont know why. I'm hot on the trail of what's setting it off though. Fro, what UT2004 patch are you running, and if you've installed UT2004RPG, what specific version do you have?

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Fro13 — GMT

I'm running 3369 and it looks like i have both UT2004RPG, and UT2004RPGv2_0_dm installed.

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TheDruidXpawX — GMT

What's the filesize of your UT2004RPG.u file?

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Fro13 — GMT

564KB

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BotFodder — GMT

Okay - hopefully I remember how things went ... I was playing my Weapons Master. Things were going okay, I was weeding weapons in the midst of trying to kill things. I noted that I had no Mine Layer for some reason - assumed that I had thrown it accidentally instead of throwing my Bio. Switched around - I'd swear a couple of other weapons came up, but somewhere along the line, I think I went to switch to my Shield Gun and I saw: RW_Healer And then no weapons would come up. The Mine Layer display showing how many mines I supposedly had out (0) came up. The HUD would switch to different weapons, but no actual weapon would pop up (like I was lagging, but I wasn't, as I was able to communicate). SuiGhosted (I'll have to add that to the "words" thread) as someone suggested that it fixed itself when they Ghosted. Did not fix it for me. Suicided. When I respawned, all was well.

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Fro13 — GMT

For the record, i've mostly been playing my medic, but even with my other characters I haven't experienced it either.

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TheDruidXpawX — GMT

Fro13 wrote:

For the record, i've mostly been playing my medic, but even with my other characters I haven't experienced it either.

Very interesting. Thanks for the info Fro, it helps, in a sick and twisted sort of way.

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Mach — GMT

I have experienced dissapearing weapons with my WM. I believe the latest instance was 2 days ago. My shots began to dissapear and then I couldn't see other players/monsters. Another time I didn't spawn with any weapons. It doesn't happen frequently, but it is definitly a pain when it does happen.

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Fro13 — GMT

BotFodder wrote:

Fro: I've seen you drop off and come back on quite a bit some days - aren't you having connectivity issues?

Well, my connection isn't all that reliable. On nice days the speed will be up to 1.5 megs and the ping will be nice and low. On off days Ive seen it drop below 200 kb with horrid pings. Now that mention it bot, that one day you saw me drop off and on several times I was experiencing the disapearing weapons and what not. I fixed it pretty easily by turning off the 360 that was downloading a bunch of stuff. Even with the bad connection days, I don't experience much packetloss. Just really bad ping.

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supertoast — GMT

My character archietoast has no skills, just spent stat points on abilities. It happened to him today, so it's not something skill (or class) related. If it's not your modem, if might have something to do with the translocator. The time's its happened to me it seems to usually start when the trans beacon does not fire. The rest of it just begins to fall apart from there.

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ECHO — GMT

Today I wasn't able to last more than 2 waves without my weapons dissapearing. At the time there were 14 or 15 players online. I think the problem occurs more frequently when more people are playing.

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Mach — GMT

ECHO wrote:

Today I wasn't able to last more than 2 waves without my weapons dissapearing. At the time there were 14 or 15 players online. I think the problem occurs more frequently when more people are playing.

Now that you mention it I believe when it happens to me the server has at least 10+ people. I've never had it happen to me when I'm on late at night with only 3 or 4 other people.

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ECHO — GMT

I just remembered, small maps seem to aggravate the problem too (ex: gael xl). Sometimes my weapons start to trickle in if I move away from other players, but that rarely works.

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supertoast — GMT

I just played two games in a row were this happened. I don't beleive there were more then 10 people playing though. I had terrible packet loss for the first part, but that didn't seem to be the only problem. I'm still sticking with my original assertion that something is wrong with the trans that causes the big failure in the weapons and ammo. Sporadicaly through the games, I stopped being able to see shots being fired, but none of those times caused the full loss of weapons, hud, etc... The only time that seemed to happen was when the trans was the projectile that was missing.

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ECHO — GMT

I played quite a bit today, at least 5 different games, and didn't have any problems with weapons disapearing. Even when the server was completely full I was able to play just fine. Were any changes made?

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Fro13 — GMT

ok, i had it happen to me today on rusing. The map before and the start of rusing i was getting some lag and my ping was high 100's low 200's. My ping started to drop to about the mid 100's. I started to partially lose my shots at about that time. Like only 2 shards of flak would show and maybe every 3rd shot would not show, but that would come and go. Then my ping went back to normal, the lag stopped, and I could always see my shots. No problems up until I died. After I spawned, I couldn't pick up any guns and I couldn't see many monsters. So, I reconnected and have been fine since then.

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ECHO — GMT

It happened to me today on the first map I played. I reconnected to the server, but it just started happening again. Plus I spawned with this curious weapon (I took the screenshot while it was flipping out, so it looks larger than normal): say wha? /:)

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supertoast — GMT

Nice gun! Did it do damage? I've gotten things like RW_Shield and other things like that, but they have no sprite with them and no picture that I have a weapon associated with them in the bottom bar.

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ECHO — GMT

I think it did damage, but I'm not quite sure about that or if it was spawning items considering I was trying to kill invisible monsters

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Mach — GMT

Had it happen to me twice yesterday, once on Spacenoxx and I believe once on Grassynoll. Both happened in later waves and both were remedied by me reconnecting. My shots dissapear and I can't see anything the monsters are shooting, but I can still damage and kill them.

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Grizzled_Imposter — GMT

I have experianced this. It seems to happen at first like a sink issue between the client side and the server side. After experimenting, I can make shots hang or delay and then dissapear totally by using the rocket launcher and loading 3 rockets at a time in a burst or spiral many times in a row. I have yet to have my weapons dissapear but have had monsters, monsters shots and my own ammo in the air either slow down dramaticly or not show on the screen at all. The shots that dont show still kill monsters so I have not had a big problem with this, except when I get a tripple rocket going and I cant see a monster that is point blank with me.....tends to end badly...

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ECHO — GMT

I've spent the past two days playing my medic character and have experienced the disapearing weapons only once. Normally I'll have to reconnect to the server once or twice per map with my WM. The two major differences I notice between my characters are: 1. I have fewer weapons than my WM (usually 2 besides shield/assault) 2. I die less Shots still tend to disapear, but come back quickly and never really affect the gameplay.

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supertoast — GMT

Earlier today, four people were playing on CTF-DuelingKeeps, (I think that was what it was). We all experienced a major lag spike, skipping game play, disappearing this and that. When it died down though, we all had the glitch happen. As far as I could tell, it was definitely lag related.

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{RAD}Raze2K5 — GMT

hate to resurrect such an old topic, but this issue still occurs on my server and it's NOT lag... this occurs MOSTLY after dying and coming back, either when returning on a new wave, or when being resurrected (I have a resurrection mod on my server)... however, before the resurrection mod, this was an issue (completely different server build)... this also used to occur on my friend SkY's server... actually SkY's server was similar where you would spawn with your weapons but not be able to switch, or fire... the solution on his was to throw the weapon you were currently holding... this would allow you to switch to and use all weapons, then you could pick up the weapon you just threw... SkY's server was about 3 to 5 years ago, so this issue has been around for a while... any resolution to this?