Banning Striders

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What was predator doing to make the trail disappear and did it seem to be done on purpose?

i know for a fact that ipredator (hypacunt) was intentionally glitching it (and didn't share how he did it on forums) at least 4 different times, one of which i was there for, and the rest passareli and others confirmed it to me, in order to gain a more invisible advantage. He especially used to do that late at night when there were no admins around to stop him, and had to be votebanned by regulars for him to stop being an exploiting cunt. Because he's an overall dirtbag cumguzzler that no one likes?

Can someone please tell newer admins that it is not ok to ban people flying around and knifing as strider. Both Deez and Predator have been subject to bans under "Exploiting" for this, when its just playing the damn race. The one excuse for banning Predator was that the fire trail disappeared while he was flying around, which no one has any control over. I have seen santas and dragonflys lose their particle trails for whatever reason but it seems that people are just getting banned due to frustration at not being able to kill them.

but yeah, i dont know about others, but if the trail on stryder disappears, can the admins please post the demo in the strider race section so zero can take a look at what caused the glitch and recreate it and hopefully fix it? and this way it can be easier to tell if someone is intentionally glitching

don't ban striders just for the sake of them being decent players.
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However, What. Is the "disappearing" trail only a first person (v_model) view glitch? i.e if u were dead and spectating a strider's first person view, the trail disappears sometimes THEN and ONLY then?
or does the ACTUAL trail disappear from the third person view, from the w_model , where as a LIVE enemy, you cannot see the strider trail?

if the former, i'd like to re-iterate to admins to not simply ban for that because it's a client glitch on your end. if the latter, post the demo please since it would confirm either intentional exploit, or random bug.


thanks for the post what.

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However, What. Is the "disappearing" trail only a first person (v_model) view glitch? i.e if u were dead and spectating a strider's first person view, the trail disappears sometimes THEN and ONLY then?
or does the ACTUAL trail disappear from the third person view, from the w_model , where as a LIVE enemy, you cannot see the strider trail?

if the former, i'd like to re-iterate to admins to not simply ban for that because it's a client glitch on your end. if the latter, post the demo please since it would confirm either intentional exploit, or random bug.


thanks for the post what.

I don't know what a lot of those words meant, but what I mean is that when you are playing, you can look at say a santa or a strider, and the trail is not visible, ie no particles or flames are shooting out of the model's ass. This is a client side issue that is relatable to the mic icon glitch or a person being invisible on your end glitch, the type of thing that is not an intentional glitch and not even caused by the person it looks like its on. Mainly what I am worried about, with the new updates and now a new race (maybe?) is that there will be hiccups with things that might appear as though someone is glitching when they are not, so people just need to take a second before they ban for those reasons. Perhaps checking with other admins (preferably ULA) or having a thread in the admin thread of known or possible glitches that admins can be aware of and rightly ban for.

Also, isn't the process still warn, kick, ban? not warn, ban?

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warn, kick, ban? not warn, ban?

correct