What is this?

Crazy_Barks · Post by **Crazy_Barks** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 2:59 pm

today was just aother 1 of those days but what is this?

airrrr man · Post by **airrrr man** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 3:01 pm

packet loss

Crazy_Barks · Post by **Crazy_Barks** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 3:02 pm

no but whats the weapon? whats RW_Protection?

ZombieSlayer · Post by **ZombieSlayer** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 3:09 pm

It's nothing. That happens when you get bugged. Reconnect and it's fine.

Jet$ · Post by **Jet$** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:30 pm

yea i get that bug every 3 to 5 waves since when joeys server went to monster madness. almost never got it back in the good old days.

TheSynGame · Post by **TheSynGame** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 12:24 am

Rw is usually a damaged shield gun...

KnaveSkye · Post by **KnaveSkye** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 1:03 am

hmm..in a year ive never seen that..

TheMadDJ · Post by **TheMadDJ** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 10:53 am

Lag/Packet loss. It's a variable name for the RPG Weapons actually, so you shouldn't see it in game.

Scion · Post by **Scion** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 12:28 pm

Well, I'm not sure if this is what happens but I think it might be what happens. The data gets lost, corrupted, or incorrectly sent, and when the data gets there, its in wrong places or fills in wrong. The way I am thinking is that the comp looks at data for a name, fire type, image and stuff like that and when its in wrong places, it can't run incorrect files like for the image, it doesn't show up since it doesn't have that image (since the data isn't about an image, it can't have an image of such data). I have recovered from this one time during a map without dcing and coming back in, what I did was wait almost entire map for what I figure must have been the lost packet, or a resend on that packet and I got it and things went back to normal for me. But that was like 30 or 40 minutes of waiting without dying (dying after ressing again). But the name not where it should be and is getting replaced instead with name of file of that rpg weapon magic type is part of why I think it might be something like this. This is just what I am thinking and I'm not sure about any of this.

Post by **Amy Infless** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 1:46 pm

hmm...scion you sound like me :-)
there are many more "names" of these rw-"weapons", i had them a lot long time ago, but packet loss is not allways the reason, but thats another thing i didnt explain that now the 1017.th time here.

i found a screeny

when new patch was available and we got that "lucky-bug" (which spawns thousands of shields, doubledamages...)
was the first time i got essr, then i was weapon-(switch-)bugged too.
the strange thing i remember there was no name at all, and my weapon moved from shockrifle-position to shieldgun-position, but it still fired ssr-beams...

...

ats

ps: maybe this topic should be moved to bug-forum?