Serious bug.

[nightstrife]

What time did this happen and maybe a demo woul help your story there is the source tv demos and the crashes used to be so much worse that you couldn't go 2 maps with out 1 crash them boom 8 more happened so and of course when races don't work you can't level them because you are not a race lol I haven't seen this on that map yet but I have seen other glitches like no buy zones for only one team.

[blackmail242]

Attachment 5255 obviously towards the end of the demo.

[CYBER]

yeah , this has happened a few times before. i only recently got a demo though... but it's on my old pc that broke... fuck.
There are 2 bugs to distinguish.
There is the "materials" bug, which basically seems to render all thrid-objects objects like ladders, stairs, boxes, ramps etc invisible, yet still accessible. I have noticed a trend where this seems to happens pretty much on cs_assault (the css one) and dust2 (sometimes, also css one).

Then there is the "bug" which is basically the war3mod crash: in this senario, most people cannot buy guns, can only shoot with a gun that they SPAWNED with race-wise (such vagabond scout) only, and yet do ZERO dmg. Models will be appearing as if floating with their hands extended to the side, not holding a gun mostly or anything. All race abilities, ultimates, skins etc are disabled...
The only way out of this problem is changing the map, and it usually resets this.
I am not a 100% sure on the following, so dnt quote me, but i think it needs an admin to change the map, not an rtv, in order to fix the glitch? maybe.
Anyways, mikey has a demo of the first bug i described, not sure if he still has the second bug too (he was drunk that day as a MOTHER, but still was productive and recorded demos like a bawss) since my demos are not currently available for me to submit.

[DJ_MikeyRevile]

It dosnt happen often, but it does happen unfortunately. I do not think it is race related either, reason being is it is a recent problem that started not to long ago. It cant be due to zero losing some code on races either, so that leaves me to think it is a CSS issue. It might behoove one of you to link to the most recent steam and css updates. i would but i am currently at work. I will also look for the demo when i get home.

to best describe the bug, its like every single player in the server was granted material wall hacks.

Edit: i will continue to do some research here at work, in the mean time.. if it happens again, record the following.

1. Console log
2. Demo if need be
3. what where you and the other players doing? (screenie of playerlist - what races were being played when the materials went missing)
4. How many players?
5. any strange player behavior?
6. any noticeable preludes to the final event? (i.e. do textures blink before they disappear)


all this info is useful for pin pointing where the bug originates from, gather as much as possible!



EDIT 2: Most recent CSS update.

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Feb 9, 2012
Counter-Strike: Source Update Released
Product Update - Valve
An update to Counter-Strike: Source has been released. The update will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Limit the effective FOV of players using wide-screen resolutions with aspect ratios wider than 1.85:1. The sv_restrict_aspect_ratio_fov ConVar can be changed to remove the restriction or make the restriction also apply to full-screen players.
Fixed a demo playback crash
Changed the way bot counts are displayed in the server browser: the bot column is now next to the player column and always visible. Bot count is no longer subtracted from maxplayers.
Adjusted error messages on servers when players drop due to Steam authentication failure to be more clear
Additional important server messages now go to the server log instead of just the console
Fixed the HUD radar not using the correct colors for players
Fixed the HUD radar background disappearing after level change
Fixed the class menu models not animating correctly

[Rosie]

I was playing when the bug happened. It is the second one that Cyber described. I changed the map and all was well until I stopped playing.

[blackmail242]

I've noticed that this is how the bugs usually appear:

all races and damage stop: Dolls

No buy zones/ one buy zone: Aztec

No visible objects: Assault

Each time one of them happens it is usually on the above mentioned maps.

[maynard]

there was a full moon last time the server bugged out... so this leads me 2 believe that the moon and the tides of the ocean are clearly linked 2 the issues we're having in WCS.