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Crashing a DM server after randomly bugging into a bot
Sometimes I respawn as what appears to be a bot. The HUD bugs out (numeric HP is correct while radial health bar is at 1hp, ammo shows full but the "no ammo" warning is flashing, ...), I'm probably can't even attack in this mode (at my typical ping it's hard to land a surely valid hit to test). Doubt I could accidentally hit Delete that is my asw_afk bind, at least not as often as this bug happens to me past week. So anyway, once this does happen, the choice is either to run into someone to get killed (at which point my marine's name localized to host's game language will be displayed in the chat/killfeed, like when a bot dies) and respawn again, this time as a normal functioning human player, or to frustratedly mash asw_afk and asw_suicide until the host crashes; today I've apparently done that to a dedicated server, as the red disconnect countdown began shortly after a suicide attempt. d_deathmatch_bot_crash_tick21000_v7144.zip This was on ASRD Tennessee about 40 minutes ago, could probably ask admin for log if that may help. I'm yet to have any idea on what causes this botting in the first place. I'm also yet to note the exact combination/order of binds to execute fatality on the server. (Edit: moved irrelevant DM balancing complaints to #720)
Once again, nothing out of ordinary 'til randomly respawned as a bot. Called others at my position to check, someone arrived with chainsaw, and server crashed the moment I got vrumvrum'd (I only got sent back to main menu with "Server shutting down"). d_dm-randombotting-crash2_v7144.zip tick 18600+
Last few times this happened, it did not result in a crash. Still a free point for the opponents.