Reserve Bug. #4730

[Bldngutz]

I spawned a M10 at Gouvy FB to St Vith (?).

Anyway took small damage to the crew and vehicle. No one died and vehicle was for the most part ok. (smoking)

RTB. Was shown that the vehicle was reserved for me.

Went to respawn. Hit the enter botton, it clicked and turned grey. Nothing happened. Still at the spawn in screen.

About 10 seconds go by and the enter button turns green. Hit enter again. Button goes grey and nothing happens.

End up backing up to the equipment page and starting over from there. (but normally you lose the vehicle reserved) Got lucky this time and still had M10 in stock.

This has happened alot, just forgot to tell ya.

PS. remember I am in Afghanistan playing on a satellite system in case that matters.

[yokilla]

I see this bug regularly in 1.31 and saw it regularly in earlier versions too. I haven't played 1.32 enough to say whether I've seen it or not. I doubt CRS corrected it since they didn't mention it. I expect to find this bug in 1.32 as well. IMO, your sat conn from Afgan ain't part of it.

[MOTORMOUTH]

I see this bug regularly in 1.31 and saw it regularly in earlier versions too. I haven't played 1.32 enough to say whether I've seen it or not. I doubt CRS corrected it since they didn't mention it. I expect to find this bug in 1.32 as well. IMO' date=' your sat conn from Afgan ain't part of it. [/quote']

We have discussed it but I'm not sure if it's been ticketed. We THINK this issue has something to do with the reservation expiring too soon, but not 100% sure.

At any rate, we're aware, but haven't pinpointed the exact problem.

[GOPHUR]

I haven't seen it in 1.32 but that may not be saying much as this host is pretty empty. I'm not sure what causes this but if I can reproduce it I can get it fixed.

Keep me posted.

[GOPHUR]

No one has ever really explained this bug well so I don't even know such things as what pop up messages you get. A step by step would be huge.

The bug reports generally have to do with a reserved weapon that someone else takes.

[binky]

You won't see it pop up in beta with unlimited supply.

My guess is that it occurs when the "default" spawn item is no longer available in the list - default being rifleman in a ground brigade or a hawk75 in a faf air brigade for example. It shouldn't care, because you are rtbing a completely different item, but that's the scenario I've seen it occur most under.

Now, I don't know if it's due to multiple reservation attempts instead. Best way to test would be to deplete an inf brigade of all but one each of every item except riflemen. Then have a couple of people spawn and despawn the remaining items and see if you can get it to trigger.

I'll see if I can capture a vid in 1.31

[Bldngutz]

No one has ever really explained this bug well so I don't even know such things as what pop up messages you get. A step by step would be huge.

The bug reports generally have to do with a reserved weapon that someone else takes.

Ok I just now spawned in Means armybase as a infantry rifle persona. (Lots of rifles in stock)

I never leave the barracks.

I Immediatly (like 10 seconds) despawned.

I am back at the sortie debriefing room page.

Get the notice in the chat bar the my rifleman has been reserved at Means armybase.

The enter world button is green.

Click enter..button goes grey and nothing happens.

Still stuck at the sortie/debriefing room page.

The enter world button turns green again.

Click button..button turns grey and nothing happens.

Rinse/repeat 4 times. Still won't join the game.

I then go back from the sortie/debriefing page to the brigade page. From there I can start the whole process of choosing soldier/equipment and jump right into the game.

PS: this is happening on the normal server, it was doing it in 1.30 as well

Edited October 7, 2010 by Bldngutz

[GOPHUR]

You won't see it pop up in beta with unlimited supply.

My guess is that it occurs when the "default" spawn item is no longer available in the list

Huh. That's an interesting thought.

nothing really makes sense. You despawn with an RTB and it reserves your vehicle for you. The spawn list knows nothing about your vehicle except that a resupply ticket was create when you spawned it originally...

I'm going to have to test that out when we get 1.32 out.

[yokilla]

I've been observing this bug for a long while now. Here's what I believe I've noticed.

The bug seems related to SD, multi-crewing and supply. I believe the game is not reserving equipment that it says it is reserving. I believe the error occurs at the moment the player clicks the reservation button but it isn't revealed until he tries to enter the world. During times of SD the reservation may have been made but the SD timer isn't showing (I think). Multi-crewing won't work at all in the presence of this bug(s). For multi-crewing even restarting the game doesn't always work around the problem. When it happens to one player it happens to both. In the worst of times, I've restarted the game and my crew has restarted the game and still we can't enter the world together. Although we can usually enter it separately.

I made the SD connection only recently. But I can't be sure of course. For all I know SD happened to kick in after the "enter the world" bug started affecting me. But it seems that if SD is active I run into this bug more.

Here's a break down of what happens: select your equipment, click enter the world, the button turns grey and nothing else happens. The button will eventually turn green again and here's where the variations start. Sometimes if you keep clicking (each time the button turns green again) it will let you in on the 2nd or 3rd try. Sometimes it won't. If it won't. Cancle your reservation and reserve again. That will fix it most of the time. Sometimes you need to reselect your persona/restart the game. I believe the reselect persona/restart game necessity occurs during SD. I don't multi-crew enough to have noticed a connection between the two types of enter the world bug and multi-crewing.

Edited October 8, 2010 by yokilla

[delems]

There are at least 4 instances of this bug that I see quite often also.

1) When there is spawn delay (even very short), and only 1 unit left, you can't enter world on the first click - see this all the time with ARM flag and NAVY flag.

2) When there is spawn delay and multiple units left you click and reserve, wait your time, then can't enter (but you HAD a unit).

3) You spawn in to spawnable, run around and do your stuff (say you SMG), the CP gets depleted of SMGs (though you alive with yours); you get wounded so respawn, now can't enter world again because CP out of supply (BUT where is yours? -- note, this might be more specific than above, maybe the whole CP has to be out of supply (of all equipment) for it to kick in, not sure)

4) You spawn in MSP, run to next town, (a cp there is under your control), you RTB to that next towns CP (no spawn, etc.); when you enter world you can't.

These are the best I can describe them right now, there might be other specific details I'm missing, but I run into these cases all the time.

And yes, I know this can happen when your flag moves, but I have seen all these cases when the flag most for sure is still around and / or we still own the CP.

[Lithu]

This bug happens in the regular game like this for me:

1. pick a unit

2. wait for spawn delay

3. hit enter

4. nothing happens and enter disappears

5. click back

6. the unit that you had reserved does not show up in list.

7. wait for unit to enter the spawn list.

8. re-reserve unit

9. enter world normally

Happens many times.

[delems]

Just thought of something, what should flag moving have to do with it anyways? If I RTB to a CP, shouldn't I always be able to enter back in? I mean, even if the flag moved, and their is no spawnable..... you still RTB'd to that CP, you ARE still there? How come you wouldn't be able to spawn back in?

Hmm, maybe it is designed that way, but I almost see this as a bug too.

[delems]

Thought of another case this happens, your side just capped a town, you are near a CP, it allows you to RTB to the CP. But, cause you just capped the AB or last CP, you can no longer spawn in via the CP?

Note, it seems as long as town is contested you can spawn back in, but once you take the town, you can't.