Weapons of Mass Destruction (Server Softcrash)
MaximumSquid
Join Date: 2010-07-20 Member: 72593Members
Join Date: 2010-07-20 Member: 72593Members
Oh wow. . . I'm still trying to take in the horrors of the last game I was in
Both teams had awesome comms, but the players were completely disorganized and it was a large game
We were taking lots of nodes, but also losing them almost as fast
Our Comm would be constantly shouting orders over the mic, but we just couldn't get to places fast enough
The game only saw phase gates and fades near the end and it was about an hour long game
<i>(Honestly a refreshing twist on how the game flowed)</i>
Huge ARC pushes were being sent in regularly to clear out one hive, but was never enough to finish off the last one
Onos would kick us out back to our side of the map and we'd have to start over
Finally in late game we got jet packs and I'm full on resources so I figure I'll go for the Rambo on the far hive
I fail 3 or 4 times, but then while the team is fighting on 3 fronts I manage to slip through
The hive is completely full of stuff and my FPS drops to a slideshow rate of about 7
A skulks spawns and being unable to really control myself I figure I'm toast the second my fuel runs out
I decide to try get on top of the hive with what little I got left when my FPS drops even lower
Next thing I know I clip the hive and the screen freezes. . .
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30 seconds go by as I alt tab back into the game after seeing that it hasn't crashed
Gameplay resumes and of course I'm dead, but I notice something else
Half the players on the server have 999 ping and are about to time out
Our comm seizes the opportunity and sends 7 ARCs to the near hive and 11 to the other
With less than half of the Alien Force remaining victory is assured and the game ends with our Comm laughing hysterically over the mic after winning what was probably the most painful game he had ever seen through to the end
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So I guess the moral of the story is that if the game is going long and you want to risk it all just use the jetpack bug to clip threw a hive
<i>Results may vary</i>
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Both teams had awesome comms, but the players were completely disorganized and it was a large game
We were taking lots of nodes, but also losing them almost as fast
Our Comm would be constantly shouting orders over the mic, but we just couldn't get to places fast enough
The game only saw phase gates and fades near the end and it was about an hour long game
<i>(Honestly a refreshing twist on how the game flowed)</i>
Huge ARC pushes were being sent in regularly to clear out one hive, but was never enough to finish off the last one
Onos would kick us out back to our side of the map and we'd have to start over
Finally in late game we got jet packs and I'm full on resources so I figure I'll go for the Rambo on the far hive
I fail 3 or 4 times, but then while the team is fighting on 3 fronts I manage to slip through
The hive is completely full of stuff and my FPS drops to a slideshow rate of about 7
A skulks spawns and being unable to really control myself I figure I'm toast the second my fuel runs out
I decide to try get on top of the hive with what little I got left when my FPS drops even lower
Next thing I know I clip the hive and the screen freezes. . .
---
30 seconds go by as I alt tab back into the game after seeing that it hasn't crashed
Gameplay resumes and of course I'm dead, but I notice something else
Half the players on the server have 999 ping and are about to time out
Our comm seizes the opportunity and sends 7 ARCs to the near hive and 11 to the other
With less than half of the Alien Force remaining victory is assured and the game ends with our Comm laughing hysterically over the mic after winning what was probably the most painful game he had ever seen through to the end
---
So I guess the moral of the story is that if the game is going long and you want to risk it all just use the jetpack bug to clip threw a hive
<i>Results may vary</i>
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Comments
I could not see anything special on the Server side. I had the console open the whole time. No special Peak of Network Traffic, No Memory Peak, no CPU Peak.. Ok.. well.. cpu is on 100% the whole time anyway :)
Is it possible to set a higher log level? Something like Verbose with a timestamp? Perhaps this would show what is happening.
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