Automatically despawned.

[jackybunne]

Every now and then when I go to spawn in, right as I get in, it instantly despawns me and gives my unit an MIA.

Playing air alot, this is a BIG issue, because that unit vanishes from the supply pool. If it keeps happening, we are just going to run out of supply and cause havok with getting air flags re-supplied...

[GOPHUR]

Does this happen after a really long wait at the spawn tips screen?

[jackybunne]

Does this happen after a really long wait at the spawn tips screen?

Yeah usually, when it seems like the game is about to crash.

[JOKER007]

Just happened to me last time I played (last night or night before) as french infantry.

Long wait to spawn in. Spawn in and see the correct scene (I was at FRU in bushes), but you are doing the "despawn rotation" pop back out to AAR screen. Everything looks ok but you have the grey button click effect where you cannot spawn back in no matter how many times you click.

[ruing]

I also see this fairly often.

Easily reproducible as it's happened so many times.

Load up game, pick side then do nothing for 10 .. 15+ minutes -- just go get something to drink or answer a phone call then come back or deal with the current family crisis unfolding outside my computer room.

See something interesting, pick mission, pick equipment, spawn in. HD grinds then I see the spinning death cam view -- unit picked is lost and if I try to do anything else I either CTD or am unable to do anything without restart.

The key seems to be long periods of sitting not spawned in. At first I thought it was just bad luck -- maybe a something dropped eggs as I spawned in or something was sitting there waiting for me to pop up, but, no -- I've tried it at far removed spawn points with no activity and get the same, death cam - MIA - equipment picked lost and no return to inventory.

This is different from the change brigade crash where it's much the same sequence but the ending is different. You change brig, pick mission, pick gear attempt to spawn in -- long long pause then instant CTD. Other than the ending result both behave almost identically.

Just a potential hint... the open file handle count goes through the roof while sitting around doing nothing. Maybe something -- maybe nothing.

[GOPHUR]

If you can please test the fix in beta.