Bug reports: list bugs here.
Brutus
Join Date: 2002-10-20 Member: 1555Members
Join Date: 2002-10-20 Member: 1555Members
in Tech Support
I thought it might be a good idea to have one thread with bugs that are found in the game. Please only give bug reports in a respectful manner. The Dev team made a free game for everyone to play and we should be grateful, not complain.
Lets help them out.
Mods, if a thread like this does not already exist, would you mind making it a sticky?
1. Lag / resource requirements
2. Shortcut issue. (BTW this has happened with other HL mods, and HL itself for me once, so it may not be an issue just for you)
3. No "last weapon used option"
4. Previous weapon or next weapon, I forget which does not interact with hud_fastswitch
5. Gordon Freeman models in the ready room. (May be intentional, don't know)
6. Whiny ingrateful players. This effects all mods, and I doubt you will be able to fix it, unless you just keep it for yourself.
7. When using the menu sometimes the options stay. This may be inconjunction to the lag issue.
Lets help them out.
Mods, if a thread like this does not already exist, would you mind making it a sticky?
1. Lag / resource requirements
2. Shortcut issue. (BTW this has happened with other HL mods, and HL itself for me once, so it may not be an issue just for you)
3. No "last weapon used option"
4. Previous weapon or next weapon, I forget which does not interact with hud_fastswitch
5. Gordon Freeman models in the ready room. (May be intentional, don't know)
6. Whiny ingrateful players. This effects all mods, and I doubt you will be able to fix it, unless you just keep it for yourself.
7. When using the menu sometimes the options stay. This may be inconjunction to the lag issue.
Comments
HL Version 1.1.1.0, brand new installation. Other mods are working (CS, DoD).
1.) When creating a server, the maplist for NS does not actually show up - it's the ORIGINAL Half-Life's maps! Weird.
2.) The menu for the Marines commander would not stay after clicking it. (For example: when the "build" button was clicked, the menu flashed on screen, and I was unable to select any of the items to build. Same happens with the "advanced" and "equip" menus.)
On my friend's computer, he cant play at all. WHen he tries to connect to or host a server, it says his executable is out of date and tries to update it. Doesn't matter how he starts the game from the shortcut to using the custom game thing in HL.
His specs: Win2k sp2, 1.33ghz athlon, abit kt7a, 512mb pc133 ram, geforce2 gts
I forgot to add when I started, only list bugs not already listed in this thread.
Thanks.
2. Lag. 1500-2500+ ping YOWZA!
3. Upon emerging from my first deep sea-dive, my sound was all but gone. Gargled and low with that underwater-ish ambience. minus the bass effect form CS and HL.
SKULK OWNS!
Also, when will there be some sort of crosshair added to the minimap? It's a bit confusing without one. Thanks!
Heres my outdated specs:
PIII 600
Hercules GF2 MX 400
Creative Live drive IR (sound)
800x600 OpenGL
Nvidia DXP 40.(42?) beta Drivers.
Also, just a note that HL and CS run fine.
system specs:
Intel Celeron 841Mhz
640 MB PC133 SDRAM
ATI Raedon 9000 Pro 64Mb
SBLive Value!
Net Connection: 2Mb DSL
system specs:
Intel Celeron 841Mhz
640 MB PC133 SDRAM
ATI Raedon 9000 Pro 64Mb
SBLive Value!
Net Connection: 2Mb DSL <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/asrifle.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='::asrifle::'><!--endemo-->
No matter how much testing, no matter how much pre-release fixing, no matter how long the development time OR maticulous the team...
EVERY Mod/Game, no matter WHAT will be released with bug/preformance issues!
So don't raze the dev. team. ^^
MB: Soyo Dragon KT333 Platinum
CPU: Athlon XP 2200+
Ram: 512MB Corsair XMS
Vid: Leadtek A250 GF4 128mb ram
Sound: SBLive
Intel P4 2.0GHz @ 2.4GHz
Visiontek Geforce4 4400 @stock w/ 41.03 Drivers
Corsair XMS-3200C2 memory
D3D 1024x768 @32bit
Soundblaster Audigy platnium
Half-Life v1.1.1.0 - Client upgrade
I am having various problems within the game. First I am not even able to play the game. It would stop while I am rididng in the tram. I would get stuck around the red lightisnh door after the guard is banging on the door. I would hear the tram moving but the video doesnt change. I let it sit there for about 8 minutes since I know HL has a long intro. I assumed maybe it would appear at the stop when the guard opens the door.
Another problem is that when I tried to create a lan game. The maps that I can select are from the valve directory not within the NS directory. I would get like crossfire.bsp, boot_camp.bsd, etc etc etc.
Another problem is that when I am in the middle of the tram and i use 'ESC' to leave the game to get back to the main menu and then immediately press 'ESC' again. I would get nothing but the wallpaper with the eyeball looking thing in the right side of the screen.
Another problem is that when I make any changes to the video settings. BTW I have tried both D3D and OpenGL and they both gave the same results. But when I make a change from D3D to OpenGL and visa versa. The game would crash. No error messages no nothing.
Another problem is that when I use OpenGL and I was able to start a LAN game with one of the other maps. I believe I used crossfire.bsp. The image was well... wacky.. All green lines kinda stuff. It looked like I walked through the wall. Part of it looked like I was walking through the wall and the other half looked like little green thin lines. (very ugly) I think that might be related that I cannot choice a NS map.
Installed onto cs retail, I try to connect to a server and I get told that in order to play i need custom ns installed? Even though im in the shell.
<img src="http://www.bdclan.org/images/ram.jpg" border="0">
Also it seems that the commands are assigned to their default keys, even though i changed the controls around slightly.
Ramoth: I have an ATI card, yet i still get 50ish FPS
Colossus: your not ment to be able to play the hazzard and game modes.. the reason you can is caused by an error in the shortcuts. The sortcuts dont have the "Start In" box filled in. Put your half life directory location (e.g. "C:\Sierra\Half-Life") in the Start In box in the shortcuts propertys, and the links should all work fine.
1. Commander Quick Keys sometimes don't work (I beleive its when you select a certain menu that they dont work on... I always could never recreate it.. it just happens).
2. When dead, and in observer mod, and you hit F4 (to switch teams). Your body goes to the ready room, but you're view is still fixed on the ovserver mod. You have to reconnect to fix.
3. When crawling on a celling (expecialy that glass tubing/corador near the Marines' spawn in one of thouse levels) and you look down and hit the backwards key, you sometimes are able to push your way through the celling and are able to just float around.
4. Can't mute players from the Scores screen... ohh please fix this fast!
Thats pretty much it. Thanks again for this great mod!
The mod has not loaded up correctly for some reason. I have read that starting NS from the start menu instead of the desktop fixes this, but one guarunteed to fix it is to start halflife normally (with no mod, plain old valve/cstrike/blueshift depending on what you installed NS on). Look for "Custom Game" and click on it. Select "Natural Selection 1.0" from the list and then click on "Activate". Click "Done".
Do this everytime you want to play NS it will work perfectly. The only issues I have now are the server lagging and menu artifacts...
EDIT:
Oh wait, just remembered, some weird bugs I have:
1)When I die, my screen keeps flashing from black to full colour again until I respawn.
2)When I evolve cloaking, all other kharaa and their buildings on my screen goes semi-invisible and glows permantently. I still seem to cloak and decloak normally. (I have not seen any marines while cloaked, so I don't know what they end up looking like)
3)When I evolve Advanced Hive-Sight, and then activate it with "f", it has the same effect as cloaking: All kharra and their buildings go semi-transparent and glow. What's worse is that marines go completely invisible! (well, they had an extremely faint outline I could only see when either of us moved)
p3 550, 384 ram, old 32 meg diamond viper 770 ultra
Installed onto cs retail, I try to connect to a server and I get told that in order to play i need custom ns installed? Even though im in the shell.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
that happened to me but i used a normal hl.exe. i solved the problem by opening up my cs link and switching to ns from there...
2 Bugs
1:
Playing at frindes house, hosted on 700+(unsure, but that machine had very smooth graphics)
me playing as alien on 450 machine, with horrible fps (maybe <5 in some hives!<!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo--> when:
building alien turret, and get stuck in one spot until i type kill in console!! I couldn't move, use right click menu, but could spit at marines. this happened twice in engine room hive, and nearby 'T' hallway junture with welded door. (sorry, i don't know the name of the map offhand)
2:
same session. as skulk and gorge, several times I couldn't use my right click menu! occasionally I could hold down to use, but other times had to console kill myself!!! very annoying.
Plays awsomely on my home machine, though, none of the above mentioned problems. had lag once or twice when playing as heavy marine, teamate started walking in place, then speed walked for 10-15 meters! pretty funny to see!
Thanks for looking at these. Awsome mod! thought attention to detail was better than some retail games!!!
(bump) Aye, this fixed alot of the initial problems I had. I never tried to use the Start menu shortcut, I'll try that when I get home today. This fixes the problem with starting your own game and only seeing HL maps, menu items that shouldn't be available (Hazard course, Load, New), and not being able to filter for NS games.
Only big issue I'm having is that Updating the game list downloads ALL 26,000+ Half-Life games & mods thereof that were being played last night. I AM able to put on the Filter option for NS, so that after I'm sick of waiting and click Cancel I see only the NS games that were polled. So something isn't right with the update option, in CS/DoD the master server only sends back games of the specific mod being asked for. Maybe this is fixed if I use the Start menu shortcut? <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/skulk.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='::skulk::'><!--endemo-->
3)When I evolve Advanced Hive-Sight, and then activate it with "f", it has the same effect as cloaking: All kharra and their buildings go semi-transparent and glow. What's worse is that marines go completely invisible! (well, they had an extremely faint outline I could only see when either of us moved)<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Those aren't bugs. Well, the not seeing Marines properly might be a bug, but what you see is correct. When using Enhanced Sight, everything that isn't part of the map (life forms and dropped equiptment) becomes translucent. This is supposed to make everything easier to see; the Marine's dark uniform no longer helps conceal them in shadows. I think it works great.
The effect is also used when you are cloaked for only your own avatar... uh, whatever limbs or teeth of your own you see in front of you. If other things are also highlighted like this, its might be because you had Enhanced Vision already? Try evolving Cloak first and see if it happens again.
Dunno whats up with the Marines, I didn't get to play them very much because the servers I was on kept getting imbalanced towards them, so I'd go Alien to balance things out. Maybe they have an advanced tech that lets them lower their heat signature or something? (heh, yeah, I didn't finish RTFM'ing, got too excited partway through the docs and had to just jump in...)