Major Problem

CirceCirce Join Date: 2003-01-30 Member: 12937Members
edited April 2003 in Tech Support
<div class="IPBDescription">no respawn once dead</div> Hey,

I have a serious problem, where as kharra, once i die for the first time, i remain (DEAD), and do not go into (REIN) nor do i respawn.

The only way i can respawn is by F4'ing and rejoining alien.

Retry'ing just comes up with the same situation over and over again, and it isn't one off or anything; this has happened to me more often than not the past few games i've had.

The fact that this happens in clan matches too means that i need to fix it very very soon <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->

Anyone know of any way this can be fixed?
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  • ImmacolataImmacolata Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2140Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    I know you're going to whack me over the head for asking this one, but I'd better do a pre-emptive strike.

    Have you uninstalled NS & HL? cleaned the directories, then reinstalled HL, patched it up and then NS?

    (remember to save important cfgs first).

    I played with circe and it is indeed strange. He shows up as DEAD on the score screen for eternity it seems. He HAS clicked to make sure there isnt some kind of "click to spawn" thing going on. I've noticed that on some servers.
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  • 2of12B0RG2of12B0RG Join Date: 2002-12-21 Member: 11285Members
    edited April 2003
    No solution, but wanted to add that this has happened to me on a few occasions. I have no idea how to reproduce the problem so fixing it may be difficult. It has happened to me both as alien and marine, I die and my screen will remain black for what seems to be years (maybe a minute or two, but definately longer than it should be.) I hit my showscores button and I am listed as dead, dead, dead, dead as a doornail, no rein for the longest time. I sympathize with you brother, because it really does suck.

    I'll add that while in this "limbo" state text and voicecomm are still usable. At least for me. Chasecam, however, does not work. The screen is total blackness.
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  • CirceCirce Join Date: 2003-01-30 Member: 12937Members
    That is exactly what happens, and in matches it doesnt exactly help my team (die; f4; die; retry; die; f4 ... ) <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->

    I probably will just clean out the ns dir and re-install, though it would really help if anyone knew what causes this <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • CirceCirce Join Date: 2003-01-30 Member: 12937Members
    oh... great... i just uninstalled ns without checking if i had the installer on my pc <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->


    ...turns out i dont

    DANG
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  • N1ghtN1ght Join Date: 2003-04-07 Member: 15301Members
    i would of suggested you delete your configs and re-make them from scratch, but since u uninstalled, nevermind <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • ImmacolataImmacolata Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2140Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    Erm when you see the black screen- have you tried to click the mouse button? that usually works for me.
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  • ElvenThiefElvenThief aka Elven Thief (ex. NS Programmer) Join Date: 2002-11-15 Member: 8754Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    I had the convenient problem where one of my clan members had the same bug right before a clan match. We ran the server patch on his system, and did the best to circumvent it, but nothing short of uninstalling and reinstalling NS would fix it.
    I'd never heard of anyone else having the problem, and despite the numerous attempts to click or do whatever, it wouldn't allow him to spawn.
    According to him, it happened spur of the moment. He was playing fine on some pubs the day before, and the next day: bam. no respawn.
    Regardless, a reinstallation should fix you up. If you have any idea what triggered it, a lot of us are quite curious.
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  • Azrael_38Azrael_38 Join Date: 2003-03-11 Member: 14407Members
    Clicking multiple times until your screen unblackens and locks onto a fellow player works. Usually, just waiting won't get you respawned if other players who died clicked...

    Maybe it's a way to let inactive players get last priority to spawn (like how new players just joined get first priority to spawn).
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  • ThansalThansal The New Scum Join Date: 2002-08-22 Member: 1215Members, Constellation
    no, this is actualy a semi known bug

    no matter how many times you click you will NOT respawn (I have no idea why this is <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->)
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  • LoRDxDeMoNLoRDxDeMoN Join Date: 2003-03-17 Member: 14636Members
    it can be reproduced by several methods, such as continuously attacking or using (when you die, type +attack in console... the screen will stay black untill you type -attack)

    my guess is that the game thinks one of the buttons is pressed?
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  • KazyrasKazyras Join Date: 2002-11-23 Member: 9722Members
    I've run into that problem occasionnally back when I still used a crouch toggle. If I died in crouch mode, I couldn't respawn until I typed -duck in the console. HL DM is the same. You won't respawn if you still have a +something or another still active.

    Might not be the cause of your problem, but still work looking into.
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  • ThansalThansal The New Scum Join Date: 2002-08-22 Member: 1215Members, Constellation
    this is an interesting idea

    a very simple solution is to have a key the is bound like so:

    bind X "-attack; -use; -moveleft; -moveright; -moveleft; -reload; -back; -foward; -duck; -speed; -jump; -popupmenu"

    just copy and paste that into your config.cfg for NS then hit the key you bond it to when your scrn goes black

    then see if anything happens <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • CirceCirce Join Date: 2003-01-30 Member: 12937Members
    Heh, that might just work.

    I reinstalled ns a few days ago however, and now the problem hasnt reappeared since thankfully, if this ever happens again, ill know to try that bind <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

    Actually now that I think about it, it may have been from using +left in the console when i was bored waiting for matches to start etc that caused it. I always used +right to stop the rotating, not -left, as im not guessing i maybe should have done. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
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