PC Wave Zed Count Includes Unreadied Players

[Azukki]

Category: Code

Reproducibility: Always

Summary: The wave zed count is affected by players that aren't playing yet.

Description: Players that join a server midgame but haven't readied up yet, so they're not playing yet for the wave, count toward the number of zeds that will spawn in that wave.

Example: Wave 3/10 solo Suicidal should have 41 zeds,

but since I joined this server that had one person on it and couldn't ready up before the end of trader time, this Sui wave 3/10 with one player playing had >74 zeds.

(they had killed some zeds before the screenshot. I think it would've been 83 zeds, for 2pSui W3/10)



I've seen this happen where multiple players that aren't playing yet get counted; this can make a wave a real endurance match for one player, and an extra wait for the people not yet playing.

Along with including the unreadied players, I suspect it may also include those that have connected to the server but not even loaded the map yet, though I can't confirm that.

Online/Offline: Online

 

[[TW]OfficerDavid]

Good find. Thanks for the report.

 

[®omano]

OfficerDavid;n2284513]Good find. Thanks for the report.

lol are you serious? this bug has been reported since first beta I think, and multiple time if I'm not wrong. Hope this time this is really added to bug report and will be fixed soon... If I'm not wrong someone already told what in the code was causing this error....

Same for the spectators counting as "-1 player" so server having 6 players + 1 spectator shows 5/6 (did not verify if it has been fixed since the last patches but I guess not as I did not see that anywhere in changelogs).

 

[®omano]

for the zed count when player not ready: http://forums.tripwireinteractive.c...into-account-players-that-have-not-readied-up (you can see three links I posted in reply... "lol" as I said..
for the spectator, last year: http://forums.tripwireinteractive.c...r-results-in-less-zeds-being-spawned-per-wave

 

[[TW]OfficerDavid]

Some reports can get lost in the shuffle which is why is useful for users to mention continuing issues with each update. Please have patience as we try to address everything we can as it is posted and in order of priority.

 

[®omano]

I verified and the other (maybe related) bug is still there, see, I refreshed multiple time the server browser to be sure, sorted by number of players, and in the middle of the 6/6 there was this server with 5/6, I then see the server details and see 7 players on it, so a spectator + 6/6 players = 5/6 in server browser BUT sorted correctly within the 6/6 players servers.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=850484869
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=850484912
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=850484960

Both are day one or almost day one bugs.