Bug 2736 - Granger kill glitch with scoreboard
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Tremulous
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Misc
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P4 trivial
Assignee: Tremulous Bugs
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Reported: 2006-06-09 05:48 EDT by Wilhelm Rahn
Modified: 2009-10-14 14:27:59 EDT
3 users (show)

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Attachments
did you? (175.84 KB, image/jpeg)
2006-09-21 08:09 EDT, rasz
dretch in human team, just after connecting STRAIGHT to hummies (194.56 KB, image/jpeg)
2006-09-21 08:10 EDT, rasz
another one.. (430.06 KB, image/jpeg)
2007-10-19 12:00 EDT, Jacques Boscq
another one.. (bis) (411.09 KB, image/jpeg)
2007-10-19 12:02 EDT, Jacques Boscq

Description Wilhelm Rahn 2006-06-09 05:48:59 EDT 
I killed a human with a granger, just a few seconds before the game finished. 
Then i appeared in the score board as if i was in the human team, but i had the dretch simbol (even though i was a granger)

You can check a screenshot of the kill here: 
http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/8462/shot01823jp.jpg

And screenshot of the score here: 
http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/3730/shot01848ib.jpg
Comment 1 Tim Angus 2006-06-10 13:18:12 EDT 
It's very difficult to make any diagnosis of this based on the screenshots alone. It could be a bug in the scoreboard message construction or dispatch, or the client scoreboard message parsing. Or something in between. Or something else entirely.

It's not really a critical bug though, so unless you can reliably reproduce it, I'm not going to spend any time looking at it.

Cheers.
Comment 2 Henry Finucane 2006-08-10 18:03:35 EDT 
It's not limited to dretches, I've seen tyrants get switched. If I ever get a demo of it, I'll send it along.
Comment 3 rasz 2006-09-21 08:09:04 EDT 
Created attachment 1081 [details]
did you?
Comment 4 rasz 2006-09-21 08:10:26 EDT 
Created attachment 1082 [details]
dretch in human team, just after connecting STRAIGHT to hummies
Comment 5 Jacques Boscq 2007-10-19 12:00:30 EDT 
Created attachment 1547 [details]
another one..
Comment 6 Jacques Boscq 2007-10-19 12:02:03 EDT 
Created attachment 1548 [details]
another one.. (bis)
Comment 7 Jacques Boscq 2007-10-19 12:14:04 EDT 
Here http://www.polytech.unice.fr/~boscq/divers/tremulous/demo0004.dm_69 is a demo file where the bug is present. You can see when it happens with the two screenshots. I was playing on 88.191.55.47:30720
Comment 8 Jacques Boscq 2007-10-22 10:35:27 EDT 
(In reply to comment #7)
> Here http://www.polytech.unice.fr/~boscq/divers/tremulous/demo0004.dm_69 is a
> demo file where the bug is present. You can see when it happens with the two
> screenshots. I was playing on 88.191.55.47:30720
> 

oO I didn't see the bug with the human "Sawyer" who has a battle suit at S1...
The client I used is the one from http://www.polytech.unice.fr/~boscq/divers/tremulous/binaries/linux/tremulous.x86
Comment 9 Chris "Lakitu7" Schwarz 2009-10-14 14:27:59 EDT 
Nobody I speak to has seen this bug in years, and some subsequent changes to the relevant code would logically have led toward its demise. If you encounter this bug on modern servers, feel free to reopen this report. Otherwise, let's go ahead and call it dead.