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Offline Iss Mneur

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Re: Epic Bughunt Claims Sanity, Human Blood
Summed up, the problem was simply that you never considered that a retail sexp could cause such an issue, because after ten years of working and improving on the game engine, one could easily believe that every retail bug would have been fixed...

Ah, there are so many ways to crash a game engine :rolleyes: At least we can learn a lesson from this, young padawan...

Also because we'd seen the issue occur before for totally different reasons. I imagine there are still ways to trigger it. And it wasn't just the retail SEXP doing it, but the combination of that SEXP with a very unusual set of circumstances that never occurs in retail and a player behavior.

I imagine it actually has little to to do the sexp other than it was what caused the player's ship max speed to be zero.  Anything that causes max-speed to become zero while speed-match was on would likely cause the bug.  That is, it was the speed-match function that was at fault and not the sexp.
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Re: Epic Bughunt Claims Sanity, Human Blood
So if you say, tried to pilot a sentry gun and used match speed, the glitch would happen?

EDIT: lol damn that was a lame 5000th post.
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I'm going to try that.
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Y'know, I think I'm going to make a (short) FS campaign about this bug. The prospect is just too awesome to pass up. That and I've been playing Transcend all day, which may have had a hand in the decision >.>

 
Re: Epic Bughunt Claims Sanity, Human Blood
Would be interesting to simulate this effect as part of a campaign.

Great job bug-squashing though :yes:


I would've never seen this bug because I rarely use speed-matching.

 

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Remember they said they had fixed the cause of the bug, so make sure to not use future builds :)
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Holy ****.

You guys deserve a medal, or three.
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Re: Epic Bughunt Claims Sanity, Human Blood
So if you say, tried to pilot a sentry gun and used match speed, the glitch would happen?

Probably, though I don't know if speed match will enable while max speed is zero.

Remember they said they had fixed the cause of the bug, so make sure to not use future builds :)

At this time the patch for this bug has not being applied to either the 3.6.12 branch or to trunk.
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That's why I said future builds...
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Re: Epic Bughunt Claims Sanity, Human Blood
So if you say, tried to pilot a sentry gun and used match speed, the glitch would happen?

Probably, though I don't know if speed match will enable while max speed is zero.


I'm pretty sure it does.  What happens when you match speeds with an enemy cruiser and kill its engine subsystem?  ;)

 

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You just stop like the Cruiser, I've done that on several occasions before.

 

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Yup and you're match speed stays on.  And if you match speeds with a stationary target, you just drop to 0 speed.  :nod:  FS1 match speeds with the Orff.

 

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Re: Epic Bughunt Claims Sanity, Human Blood
So if you say, tried to pilot a sentry gun and used match speed, the glitch would happen?

Probably, though I don't know if speed match will enable while max speed is zero.


I'm pretty sure it does.  What happens when you match speeds with an enemy cruiser and kill its engine subsystem?  ;)

That's not what he means. He means your max speed, i.e. the player.

 

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Yep. The trigger condition for this particular bug was that the player's max speed was set to 0 and then used as the divisor without anyone checking whether it was 0.
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Re: Epic Bughunt Claims Sanity, Human Blood
And if you match speeds with a stationary target, you just drop to 0 speed.

IIRC you can't match speeds with an object that is at full stop.

I wonder what would happen if you match speeds to a fighter that has negative acc while flying a fighter that can't do that :drevil: (I remember flying some fighters that had negative speeds)
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It will still have a positive speed (as it is quite impossible for your velocity to become negative). As such, you'll be matching speed with it. Of course, you won't be going in the same direction.
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It will still have a positive speed (as it is quite impossible for your velocity to become negative). As such, you'll be matching speed with it. Of course, you won't be going in the same direction.

Velocity is a vector and can therefore has both direction and magnitude, so it can be negative, depending on where the point of reference is.  Speed cannot be negative, because it has no direction.

 

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I blame the inaccuracies of human language.
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Semantics lol

 
Re: Epic Bughunt Claims Sanity, Human Blood
It is human nature to laugh at other peoples's frustration; its a psychological defense mechanism. The amount of frustration is often proportional to the amount of laughter.
Which I am finding out now.
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Because I have been doubled over, trying not to vomit from laughter, at the sheer amount of scrap metal I would have created had that happened to me.
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