Join Team Bug

[xrichardx]

I noticed a bug concerning joining teams. Sadly I can't record it with a demo as demos dont catch my input in the console. So basically, this is what happens:

g_autobalance is 0
available teams are blue and red, i am observer.
"join r" --> invalid team
"join b" --> joining red
"join r" --> invalid team
"join b" --> you will remain in the red team next round

I'm pretty sure this did not occur when the servers version was b37, so i think this problem is related to serverversion b38. Also, it does not only occur on my b38 server, it does also occur the the 27/7 italy server, which is hosted by OTB as far as i know. Also, it happened that there were 5 people in blue, 2 people in red, g_autobalance was turned on and noone could join red, console says "invalid team". So i think it is related to changes in the autobalancing system, but that is just my guess, it could also be wrong.

Edit: Another weird thing that happened: one round me and another player that typed "join observer" just reconnected instead of going observer.

[LaZeRs]

Something similar happened to me on that autobalance command too.

g_autobalance 0
join red: you are already on this team!
join blue: autojoins blue when blue has more people.

[xrichardx]

I just found a notice in the changelog for version 38, maybe that fixes the problem. But even if then I wonder why the corupted file was not directly fixed in the installer / tar.gz:

http://dplogin.com/forums/index.php?topic=25965.0

/Edit: That patch fixes these bugs, but I still think either a note for this should be put on the downloads page or the file should be simply exchanged because not everyone reads the changelogs all the time and the title "build38" doesnt indicate that there is a fix for a wrong file in it. Anyways, I think if you search for that problem you now find at least this thread.

[Makowiec]

There's a fix even on the main page...
http://digitalpaint.org/news.php

[xrichardx]

Ok, then it's my bad. I always go to http://www.dplogin.com and use the "Downloads" link there. Seems like digitalpaint.org is the better way to check for news and updates. Thank you for telling me.

[jitspoe]

Yeah, sorry I've been a bit slow getting another update out.  Busy working on my house and other life-related things.