Weird Anomaly

had this happen the other day (been a long time since i've seen it) and the only thing i can think of is that its tied into being idle too long and somehow your game desyncs a bit.

I was on a team, had company come over so i pulled out my calc, clicked use on the rax and pulled up my vehicle build screen, afk for next 45 mins or so, map changes, i go back to play it and ragdolls are doing the humpty hump on the floor.

 

I think the ragdolls (nevermind wall gibs) should be done by the server.

 

I think I don't want to fire and wait 3 seconds for the bullets to hit something.

 

I think you should read up on bandwidth usage before you suggest something like that, Max :p

 

And server admins thought we had high CPU usage now

 

you can force them server side in source, not saying you should, but you can

 

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Oh you know you want to do it for the luls. 200% CPU Usage incoming!!!

 

I've seen both issues.

 

It's happened to me a few times, usually when I alt-tab during a game and go look at stuff on the internet/msn and then alt-tab back in. Yeah reviving is impossible then.

A question regarding ragdolls: Why is it that the ragdolls are inconsistent between all clients? I've seen people run to nowhere and revive me even though my body is a few meters away.

 

Because the ragdoll physics are calculated on each client individually. Having it calculated server-side would put a gigantic (and unnecessary) strain on the server. Check the posts above for this exact discussion lol :p