Official Beta 0.35 Bug Reporting Thread

[Omega Sephiroth]

Not listening others that I have seen, or at least I hope so... Anways!

1) There is a problem with spawning on the map. Half the time you will kill a team member by tela-frag.

2) Someone said it eailer but i think it bares repeating, the monster glitches.

Zombies are seen, as well as Imps and other creatures, standing up at the place they spawn, before they spawn, for example, zombies that crawl from the floor or/and imps that climb up from elevatour shafts.

Also Mentioned, but you can not hear any monster sounds...well i take that back , you can hear them hissing, or the marines jabber talk, but gun shots from them are none existant ( sp ) Kinda a pain in the arse to get a random hp reduction from a zombie toten a shot gun behind you.

3) PDA useage... Whoopse I seen this has already been voiced...go me.

4) Lag is NOT a glitch, however an annoyance. I am not sure if its because i did something wrong, if its my cable, or if the maps are way out there in BFE, but some times it does fine,and others, like when monsters start to spawn, it goes anal.

5) reliable message overflow is the worse thing in the world. Not only do I have no clue what it is but it happens so much and then, everybody poof! Gone! no more! o.O;


Other then that, I have to say this is the best damned thing I have found for DOOM 3, and I will be a loyal fan, and will continue to keep with your updates

[Corrupt Chocula]

can someone tell me what Reliable message overflow means? maybe there is a way for client to prevent this--i havent gotten it for a while now. maybe it was something i did
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[AO]

Do clients get any other message than just "disconnected" because of that error?

The server probaby keeps a buffer of size 65535 for each client. Data to be sent to client gets copied into that buffer until it is time to send a new snapshot to clients (more efficient than to send lots of very small packets all the time).

Because of the not so efficient network code there is a lot of things that are sent but shouldn't be sent. There's also a few very dangerous, still unknown things that happen in the game that just fills that buffer up so quick it overflows. One such example was the breakable glass which would send a piece of information to each client for every glass shard every frame! That = instant overflow.

If the buffer is full client is kicked and server prints a message client X reliable message overflow.

You should get overflow in certain places more often than others because of how the levels are built up, especially in the SP maps which weren't meant for MP. The machinegun/chaingun/plasmagun/shotguns aren't healthy either, they send a lot of messages. Guns will be fixed in next release.

[Skutarth]

There is a problem with the current monster death method that while they're still walking toward you, they don't clip in the way that you can walk through them, but it clips in such a way that weapons still hit them. This impacts gameplay, since you can be firing into a horde of monsters in a cramped corridor, and you'll keep hitting the front one even though you already killed it. You'll have to wait for it to disappear to kill the next one, so you'll lose ground waiting for it to disappear...
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[Hobbes]

[OmegaSephiroth]

[OmegaSephiroth]

[Corrupt Chocula]

Thanks for that insight AO. maybe in the sp levels this can be remedied by removing all breakable glass or somehting
hell map: is it the floating bricks and/or teh flying soul black things that cause a problem? maybe those black things can be replaced/removed, or modify the map so that it is a solid path there instead of floating blocks
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[Herr_Virus]

I think i had found a bug
Its in Lms there if you spectate in the game and following the player
Then you cant see when the player is firing his weapon

[Scorcer]

Hello, im asking how to install this.Im pretty sure i installed it right, just that when i load doom 3, and i go to mods and enable the LMS mod.It show that picture and after that it blacks out, and after a phew seconds " usually 3-4 seconds" it crashed and i have to reload it and try again, but..it seem's to happen again and again.I dont know why, but it does it.Please respond to me and help me.


E-mail: codym215@sbcglobal.net


AOL name: Raynor559

Thank You!
Signed, Scorcer

[AO]

What is the error when crashing?

[Guest]

First off - awesome mod - its a pity ID software didn't incorporate something like this in the actual game out of the box.

I'm new to the LMS standing mod, forgive me if I've repeated what's already written but these are the bugs I've experienced.

My system:
CPU: Intel P4 3.2GHz
RAM: 1000MB DDR400
VIDEO: nVidia 5700
Internet: 512K ADSL

Other Player's system:
CPU: Intel P4 3.0Ghz
RAM: 750MB DDR400
VIDEO: nVidia 5700
Internet: 1.5MB ADSL

Playing only two player LMS, we didn't bother about having a dedicated server, since my mates 'net connection is the quickest - he hosted.

We loaded up SP COOP and I found the following bugs:

Starting from the begining of the game.

1. Lag! Normal ping times between our two PCs run on average 65ms - ingame: 500-600ms
2. As a "client" - I couldn't reload my weapon
3. As a "client" - I couldn't use my flashlight
4. The game would wait for the "host" for game triggers - in-game characters/monsters would stand in a scare-crow position until the host would trigger them to talk/attack
5. Airlock problem (I know this has been mentioned) - I was stuck outside clicking on the airlock door to open - eventually died
6. As a "Client" - I could scroll through my weapons (ie. fist, pistol etc)
7. Lag! (again)
8. Video cut sceens where jumpy, as if the game had "overlapped" the video onto the game

Normal multiplayer online games (ie. normal Doom3 w/o LMS Mod) run perfect - no or very very little lag.

I hope this helps - I await impatiently for the next version! Awesome!

[Hobbes]

Thanks for the post. Here are my answers.

[Cyclis]

Just downloaded and played SP Coop with my brother- had a lot of fun. We experienced little lag, but we were playing over LAN and have pretty good machines. I was running the SP Coop game at 1280x1024 with 2xAA and had no problems with FPS.

We did experience some bugs, some of them already listed here. Most annoying was the PDA bug that removed the player animations, but I see that's going to be fixed. Second most annoying bug was after the short sequence on the Mars surface, my brother's character wouldn't stop breathing like he was outside, even after we were well past that. Killing him didn't stop it. Also shooting NPCs just caused them to react oddly- freezing in place, or even continuing to talk.

What bugged me the most though was the disentegration of the monsters on death. I understand this is probably a tweak for performance purposes, but really we didn't need it. Is there any way to disable this feature?

Anyway, when we weren't having problems it really was a blast. Great work.

[mixa]