Map Voting Menu is Completely Broken

[Nightingale]

It's been like this since launch, but I didn't feel the need to report this problem until now. The map voting menu is almost completely non-functional and it resembles something out of a pre-alpha build.

1.) Maps randomly disappear from the list if they get too many votes

2.) As a consequence of 1.), the map which the server switches to sometimes is not the one with the most votes displayed.

3.) Pressing space in the chatbox causes the map voting menu to disappear or it opens the console dialog. This makes typing anything in it completely futile.

4.) The overhead map sometimes gets placed over the map voting menu, which makes it impossible to see which map is being voted for and how many votes it has. I only started having this problem upon the release of the GOTY edition.

It's been like this on every single server I've played on, without exception. I've never seen it work even once.

[r5cya]

does anyone else have this problem? i don't! works fine for me. not sure about you thinking the map with the most votes not getting played. that's odd. how do you know a few guys didn't outvote the map that was on top at the last second? can't say i've really seen this problem happen either. might just be your game, if you hadn't added that last part.

edit.... nah. it has to be on your end. i've never seen any of the problems you're describing.

[Proud_God]

I can confirm 1) 2) 3) and 4) occurring for me as well.

[=GG= Mr Moe]

Sometimes 2), definitely 3) all the time. The others I haven't paid attention to.

[Mike_Nomad]

Its OFF on our servers at this time... when it works properly, it'll return.

[Gudenrath]

Yup, I have experienced all the symptoms described by the OP. Especially the maps disappearing with too many votes, and this can happen several times during the same vote so it ends up being a map with almost no votes which eventually wins.

The map voting chat is horribly botched and has been since release of game.

And yes the overlay map sometimes is superimposed on the map voting chat, usually with the clicking sound going on in the back ground.

While we're at botched menus that has been broken since release of game honourable mention goes to the spawn menu, which still mostly disappears soon after you bring it up (although not always anymore, sometimes, very rare, it actually works!).

One should've thought menus would have been pretty basic stuff to get right.

[Tummel]

Indeed. Have seen 1), 2) and 4) constantly on servers where map voting is enabled of course.

I've never seen map voting work as expected.

[Cwivey]

If the number of votes for a map exceeds 10 votes, the whole thing fucks up and pretty much turns into a role of the dice. Of course, the thing works so long as the map voted for stays at 10. :<

I have all the issues the OP has.

[r5cya]

that's odd. i've never seemed to have a problem with it. you're right about most servers not even having it enabled though. probably why i never noticed.

[octiceps]

I can confirm all 4 points brought up by the OP.

The server not switching to the map that won the vote is definitely most annoying for me. For whatever reason, some of the servers I play on keep cycling Mamayev Kurgan over and over again because the map vote system is broken and we can't play the map that received the most votes. The player want to play a new map but the broken system prevents us from doing so. It gets mighty boring when you're playing the same map 2 or 3 matches in a row.

I don't think this is a case of people outvoting the top place map at the last second. There'll be instances where the winning map has a 15 vote lead on second place at the last second and we'll end up playing the map that was 5 down from the top???

Just another of the seemingly endless menu and user interface quirks that I wish the devs would address.

[Lord_Lovat]

Originally Posted by octiceps

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Just another of the seemingly endless menu and user interface quirks that I wish the devs would address.

Indeed.
Me to have had the same problems as the OP mentioned.
Also, when I do get the chat thing to work, and you write a long sentence, only part of it will show as the chat window is to small. Normally or logically, the longer part of the sentence would drop below the first part of the sentence (just like the posts here in the forum for example), but in the menu, it is as if there is only one line for the sentence, from left to right. When your sentence exceeds the chat window, those words won't show.

Regards

[r5cya]

i see you're right about the chat messaages on the map selection screen. i guess i never noticed because it's a waste of time trying to chat on it. it's usually gone and loading the map by the time i get a chance to finish typing.

[Moskeeto]

Yep, I also experience every single one of those problems. It really ticks me off tbh, because I like to actually type a couple of things at the end of the round.

[abjectblitz]

Been like this since original release.

[Cpt-Praxius]

Most of those problems I experience as well, though sometimes when I click a map I vote for and doesn't show up or disappears from the vote list, it sometimes still wins.... it's certainly not very reliable.

[TWB*JimMiller]

I can confirm this is happening on the TWB servers. I also noticed no way to disable the same map from being voted in two times in a row.

Specifically what happens on our servers is once a map gets to 11 votes it is shuffled out of the list, then it appears as having only one vote. The next highest voted map in the list gets chosen. The happens even if multiple maps get to 11 votes. This makes for a very difficult time for the players as maps that the majority want to play are not being selected.