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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Stealth on January 02, 2003, 10:58:39 pm
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Name some bugs/errors you've encountered during Freespace 1/2 multiplayer (especially with PXO)
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They called me a hacker when I wasn't!!!!!!!!!!1111111
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There are certainly a lot of them. The most annoying one is by far the lag respawn bug which occurs when there is lots of lag; what happens is that you get stuck in the death screen, and even worse, cannot send messages or even close the game. Then we have the famous lag bombing bug, which allows non-hosting players to fire all of their missile banks at the same time under appropriate conditions. Then there is the host guns effect, which I have somehow noticed much more in FS2 than in other games. The "find player" feature does not work correctly, as it only searches for people in lobbies and not in games. One of the team missions, MT-07 (Ganymede Redux), has some strange bug that causes the Ganymede to warp out every now and then. PXO occasionally discards the stats for absolutely no reason, so often that nobody is really surprised when it occurs. The mission xfer sequence sometimes just stops for no apparent reason and the player to whom the mission was being sent cannot send any messages, so he either leaves or gets kicked; this is sometimes called an xfer lock. I could go on and on... :D
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Oh lord, the list goes on and on, I doubt I could mention them all in one go. With cheating:
1. Being able to edit stuff in Fred so that killing a certain ship is 90000000... etc points. I dunno exactly when you are supposed to do this so that it validates.
2. Being able to award yourself any medal you want
3. In the debrief of a dogfight you can have your stats save as many times as you want (ie, if you got 50 kills in one mission, you can make it add 5 missions and 250 kills).
4. Lag bombing
5. Tab loading: give yourself any primary/secondary even if the ship isn't supposed to be able to load it.
I'm sure there's more but I can't think of any right now. Actual bugs:
1. Ghost ais that pop up during TvTs
2. Getting inside the gany (can be considered a cheat) in mt-07 and mt-10
3. Trying to play RI off a standalone, timing screws up majorly.
4. Personal experience, only happened to me once. I fired 8 torns at a support ship during TvT right before the host jumped. The support ship died while I was in my jump sequence and suddenly my kill count went to 2 million. I was promoted to rear admiral, but luckily none of that saved.
All I can think of right now. I'm sure there are plenty more though (should ask Warlock and CP).
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Replacing missions that V put in with your own and getting them validated.
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very helpful!
i don't want to show people how to cheat though ;) :)
keep going... any others?
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Getting new quality missions validated by V is my biggest issue/problem with PXO - I can only create and test them, but that stupid little check in the missionselection screen is beyond my abilities
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I believe you have to submit the mission to PXO (Volition) and they 'approve' it or something. I know only two user-made missions were 'validated' in Freespace 1, but i'm sure many are validated in FS2.
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anything not on this list?
- What is "PXO", and how does it work?
- How do I start out playing Freespace online?
- I can usually log onto PXO, but today it freezes at "validating pilot", and eventually just times itself out
- When I host a multiplayer game I get a "you have a hacked ships.tbl" or "you have a hacked weapons.tbl" error, and stats aren't saved.
- What is a "validated" mission, and how do I get a mission I made validated?
- When I host a game, missions that came with the game don't save stats, they aren't "validated".
- What can I do to reduce lag in-game?
- When I host a game it says I have "low object updates" on. What are "object updates" and how do I change them?
- When I try to join a game I keep getting an error: "Could not connect to server on reliable socket".
- How do I send messages in-game?
- When a multiplayer game is finished, and it's a validated mission, why do stats not save on a particular mission occasionally? It gives an error, like "Stats not saved", etc.
- When I view my or someone elses "pilot stats", their stats (usually ship kills) are different when i'm in a chat room and when i've created or joined a game. Why's this?
- Is it possible to play a game with my friends online, but without going through PXO (this is useful when PXO is down, or when you want less lag, etc.)
- How do I get a different pilot picture?
- The other day I was flying, when suddenly everything went black. I could not move, send messages, or even exit the game. I just saw the HUD, and a black screen behind it. What is this?
- How do I get promoted, and how do promotions work?
- I want to get medals, how do I get medals, and what requirements must I meet?
- Sometimes when I'm in-game, Freespace crashes to Windows, and a debugger pops up, saying there is an error, etc.
- Occasionally in-game (particularly near the end of a mission) I see an AI ship flying, but yet I can't kill it, and no one else in-game is able to target the ship. It just flies straight, at the same speed. What is it?
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Stealth, I know how the validation should work - I have already valid missions
The problem: Volition doesn't validate any longer...
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Originally posted by Cetanu
Stealth, I know how the validation should work - I have already valid missions
The problem: Volition doesn't validate any longer...
If you're referring to this:
What is a "validated" mission, and how do I get a mission I made validated?
then i know you know, but remember: this FAQ is for FS/FS2 newbies :)
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Whoa, since when did this become a fs/fs2 FAQ?
And we still have newbies on PXO!! Wow...