User:Erorr404/Major Gameplay Issues

List of Major Gameplay Issues

This is a list of the major gameplay issues, categorized and ordered by severity.

Major (non-weapon) gameplay issues

Frequent short pauses for all players - Template:Mantis

Player is warped to another position - Template:Mantis

Players become IMMUNE to bullets - Template:Mantis

Remote players stuck in standing animation - Template:Mantis

Clients can't connect to servers with roughly 300+ elements - Template:Mantis

Bike passengers knock off driver and cause desync - Template:Mantis

Military installations give you wanted stars and cops - Template:Mantis

Certain skins turn white, texture-less (a gta limit being hit?) - Template:Mantis

Major parked/idle vehicle problems - Template:Mantis

Player stats must be static - Template:Mantis

Issues if jacking is aborted - Template:Mantis

Planes reblow on stream-in - Template:Mantis

Cars don't always explode - Template:Mantis

Cannot enter vehicle bug (possibly fixed) - Template:Mantis

Stuck on ground after being jacked - Template:Mantis

Bike driver turns invisible - Template:Mantis

Add train linking support (this was promised on the blog) - Template:Mantis

Fix train floating off tracks bug (otherwise trains will be useless) - Template:Mantis

Passengers don't have radio - Template:Mantis

Wrong enter animations for some vehicles - Template:Mantis

Trailer desync bug (trailers were promised to work on the blog) - Template:Mantis

Can only run forward bug - Template:Mantis

Melee bugs when player is out of world bounds (in the ocean) - Template:Mantis

Invisible player (rare?) - Template:Mantis

Death messages need work - Template:Mantis

All colors on screen fry (turn to white) - Template:Mantis

Major problems with created objects - Template:Mantis

Disable spraying gang tags (message appears for all players) - Template:Mantis

Throat slitting glitch - Template:Mantis

Unable to walk bug (rare?) - Template:Mantis

Can't enter Skimmer or Seasparrow when swimming - Template:Mantis

Suck through Combine causes desync - Template:Mantis

Player drowns too quickly after no oxygen (carried over from race) - Template:Mantis

Synchronise alternative attacks - Template:Mantis

Vehicle doesn't auto-brake when player wants to exit - Template:Mantis

Spawning/warping underwater doesn't make you swim (too deep) - Template:Mantis

Weapons issues

Drivebys - various issues - Weapon Glitches#Driveby issues

Running weapons - these don't sync properly - Template:Mantis

Satchels - satchel remote detonates satchels from other players - Template:Mantis

Satchels - satchel charges aren't synced - Template:Mantis and Template:Mantis

Rockets and thrown weapons - projectile not visible - Template:Mantis

No detonator icon for satchels - Template:Mantis

Goggle wearing is not synced - Template:Mantis

Frequent/reproducable crashes

Crashes from projectiles:

• [0x0072F4DE] - Template:Mantis
• [0x00738F3D ID 4790, 0x00738F3D ID 7740, 0x06E03025] - Template:Mantis and Template:Mantis
• [ID 7307] - Template:Mantis

Crash from vehicle explosions [0x078976AF ID 17417, 0x0789760F ID 17650, 0x0789738F ID 17917, ] - Template:Mantis

Crash from explosions [0x078976AF] - Template:Mantis

Crash when dying with satchel attached [unknown] - Template:Mantis

Crash from Katana chop [0x02A1D3CA ID 9437, 0x02CADA4A ID 9436, 0x0582DED6 ID 9432, 0x05845E7E ID 9434, 0x02A1D0CE ID 9435, 0x02A1D386 ID 9433] - Template:Mantis

Crash on server join (script related) [0x07D7A79C ID 19680, 0x067BA79C ID 19681, 0x067BA79C ID 19682, 0x067DA79C ID 19684] - Template:Mantis

Crash from changing blip visibility (script related) [Runtime erorr] - Template:Mantis

Synchronization/smoothness issues

Get rid of glitchy/warpy effects on players when they:

• spawn - Template:Mantis and Template:Mantis
• enter vehicles
• climb
• hang

Synchronize player animations:

• coughing animation not synchronized - Template:Mantis

Improve vehicle sync:

• Vehicle collisions are very poor Template:Mantis
• Improve empty vehicle sync:
  • unoccupied vehicles of any type lag a lot in the water
  • boats pitch and roll from waves, then snap back - Template:Mantis
  • bikes start to fall, then snap back into resting position

Other

Finish completing GUI and fix some bugs:

• List of GUI issues - Template:Mantis
• Chatbox doesn't show 2nd and 3rd lines of text - Template:Mantis

Force Mouse + Keys configuration to prevent auto-aim - Template:Mantis

Issues With Higher Amounts of Players

These are observations I gathered about issues that become more prevalent with higher amounts of players.

Test 1

Today (September 22, 2006) we played with 5 people in the server and experienced some MAJOR bugs. Here's a small list I gathered, ordered by severity:

• FREQUENT pauses for all players - Template:Mantis
• Certain player skins become texture-less - Template:Mantis
• Desync - bike driver becomes invisible to remote players (until getting off) - Template:Mantis
• Player stuck lying on ground after being jacked - Template:Mantis
• Players get stuck in vehicles, can't get out (don't know what causes this)