Bis testing server

[suma 8]

We have set-up a server in order to test some problems:

- no mission voting offered after connected to the server

- mission does not start even when all users are green

You can see the server in ingame browser. It is marked as BIS Internal Testing Server and its version is 1.78, but you will be able to join with 1.75.

If someone wants to help us testing, feel free to join this server. Do not expect any serious playing there - no long playing time will be allowed and missions will be often interrupted by admins.

[suma 8]

So far we have been unable to identify any single problem on the server. The reason may be the server seems to be visited very little. Feel free to invite more people there and feel free to play on the server - really we need to stress test it.

It will be running most of the time now and most of the time you can expect missions will not be interrupted.

[hugo2020 0]

mp things:

#other persons footsteps and breathing are now unhearable, a little improvement would be nice.

#I think that is a new bug, sometimes only the enemy chooper seems to be invisible, he shot but we cant see him..., noticed at 1.49 and 1.75. I noticed that on our high performance clanserver. BIS people are welcome to see that with their own eyes, pm me...

[Harnu 0]

How far away are you talking about for hearing footsteps and breathing? It's not like in real life you can hear breathing 100m away.

[PiNs_Da_Smoka 0]

I just got done playing on it, although shortly because i have to leave. But the only things i noticed are this....

#1. When someone died and respawned, i saw their shadow still on the ground. Not serious, but a little odd.

#2. Now, this isn't just in the 1.78, this i noticed in 1.75. Sometimes, others can't see my messages. I know it aint' people just not responding to me (i hope ....heh) Because me and some friends were playing a coop and i was talking to them, but no one responded to me. Then i saw them trying to talk to me, and i TRIED to respond, but to no avail. And i later chatted with them in IRC, and they said they didn't see anything. I hope this isn't just me, because it sounds like a serious bug that should really need to be resolved.

Thats just my two cents

[WhoCares 0]

Just sitting on the server. After we played WarCry once and started it again, it seems that I (#7 PFC Prowler) lost the other guy. He (#2 SGT.Snake Eyes) doesn't do anything anymore, but has still a ping of ~110. And as we can't kick him (because admin and kick is disabled) and because it is a Coop the server is now stuck with him in the mission...

And now there is also a '0-pinger' on the server (#9 Owner)

[Espectro (DayZ) 0]

Bugs ive seen:

Voting is screwed.

You cannot vote anything when you are in a game, this includes:

#restart

#reassign

#mission

#missions

Some of these works when in the lobby, but thats all.

[suma 8]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Espectro @ July 26 2002,11:44)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Voting is screwed.

You cannot vote anything when you are in a game, this includes:

#restart

#reassign

#mission

#missions<span id='postcolor'>

This is not bug, this is intentional. The only voting enabled on this server is selecting mission. We did it this way so that we can test the most simple (no admin, no experienced users) operation of the server.

[Dave -OFPL- 0]

Well Ive been on the server a few times and havent see many people on it. Maybe some non BIS custom maps would help attract some people.

[suma 8]

Progress report:

Mission voting has been significantly improved. In many situations it is not necessary for everyone to vote, as missing votes cannot influence voting result.

Ghost bug is not solved yet, but we gathered some very important data - thats to all you helped us tracking this, especially to those you ghosted, like Beere, Bersak, Highneken and some others.

Please, continue connecting to this server.

[ralphwiggum 6]

Feature request:

instead of typing "#vote mission <missionname>" could you implement right-couse-button-click interface? lie right click on mission and choice to vote would appear.

just a request.

[suma 8]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (RalphWiggum @ Aug. 01 2002,07:50)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Feature request:

instead of typing "#vote mission <missionname>" could you implement right-couse-button-click interface? lie right click on mission and choice to vote would appear.<span id='postcolor'>

Instead of typing "#vote mission <missionname>" you can double click the mission or select mission and press OK.

I think this is the way most people do it.

[hugo2020 0]

Hi,

I noticed that more often than sometimes that the vote-function on dedi public servers doesn´t works. When people tried to vote me or another one for admin, I couldn see the vote message. I dont know whether it works with admin login password. Only a Server restart cleared the situation

[jawk2 1]

i will try to get in the server tonight (week at least after an hard week of work), i m fairly lucky finding bug.

Well i know this is not the place to ask for it:

but why in OPF we cannot know the full mission available in the server (maybe a new command like #userlist can do this job), it will simplify the job of the admin finding mission, and for player to ask him for a specific mission??

[Espectro (DayZ) 0]

1 bug ive found about voting (on 1.75 not your test server). Dont know if it still exists but:

If you are 10 users on a server with no admin...

1 user votes himself as admin (ie. he get one vote).

The other users votes a different person admin (fx 5)

Then one user votes on the first person. (so he got 2 now)

BUT. If only 1 vote needs to be given to the second user (a total of 6), the first person gets the admin no matter what. So even though 1 guy have 5 votes the first person that got a vote PLUS one more, will get admin. I dont know if it is all the time or what, but ive seen it a few times.

[-A-V-Trekkie 0]

I played a Coop (Return to Eden and respawned as a medic...)

then I healed s.o. and just in that moment a HEAT killed the guy I was healing...

Then I can´t stop healing him, I was trying to go away but it doesn´t worked, he always played the "heal"-animation ...

Problem has been solved with a headshot...

[hugo2020 0]

Hi,

in reference to the "vote function doesn t work bug", now the vote function doesn work on the Server in the list called

[G] Server and Battlefield Clanzone Server.

[ALDEGA 0]

Are you sure voting wasn't disabled?

[hugo2020 0]

very sure,

[Lt_Damage 0]

In role selection window. After choosing your roles. I was the last person to press OK to start "Receiving Data.." screen.

I was in the middle of typing a message so I had the chat window open. The administrator pressed "OK" and that forced me to start. But instead I was crashed to the desktop.

I have had this problem before. If transitioning between player setup windows and I am typing and the admin presses start. I will crash to desktop.

[suma 8]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Espectro @ Aug. 03 2002,20:54)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">1 bug ive found about voting (on 1.75 not your test server). Dont know if it still exists but:

... the first person gets the admin no matter what.<span id='postcolor'>

We inspected voting code during last days and we realized admin and mission voting was really broken. The first person or mission that received the vote won elections no matter what.

It seems this bug was present always since voting was introduced. It will be fixed in the next patch.

[suma 8]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Suma @ July 31 2002,13:37)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Ghost bug is not solved yet, but we gathered some very important data - thats to all you helped us tracking this, especially to those you ghosted, like Beere, Bersak, Highneken and some others.<span id='postcolor'>

We think we have a possible solution to the ghost bug, together with more detailed diagnostics.

Feel free to connect and disconnect at will. We will evaluate debugging logs within few days to see if fix is working.

[russin 0]

ive went on to check it out and noted on flag fight dm the heavey machine gun placements in town the guns aim moves upward still....

also say i have flag and some kills me the same time some one else dies flag will go to some other auto-matically on the other side of the map ive tried a few others as well but nothin i noticed wrong

[suma 8]

We think we have fixed all ghost and voting problems. Anyone is welcome to visit our server to test and play.

[Hit_Sqd_Maximus 0]

Splendid! I have noticed that after you ghosted at one server, you cannot join another one untill the server you was ghosted on is reset.