Hotfix Build 82369 now live!

masterdigital · June 1, 2015

masterdigital said: ↑

ViolentMind said: ↑

Looks like the unit selection buttons at the bottom left of the screen are a bit off now. At first I thought it was just off when selecting air units, but then orbital and naval seemed off as well. The unit icons are wrong and the sub-totals are wrong, and when selecting air units only, sometimes nothing shows up at all.

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I'll look into it.
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I have submitted a fix. It will take a while before goes live. Thanks for reporting this.

masterdigital · June 1, 2015

mikeyh said: ↑

@jables (probably still away) @masterdigital

I'm trying to track down an issue where the following occurs:

1 or more players (sometimes most of them) do not spawn into the game

players who do spawn can't build anything

lobby json info looks corrupted on server

What was the cause of the disconnect issues? By any chance was it corrupted JSON data structures?
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The disconnection issues where caused by a catastrophic error inside our server side JS engine. However, failure to spawn/and or build could easily be caused by corrupted lobby JSON.

If the problem persists, a lobby id where the bug occurred would be very helpful.

Alpha2546 · June 1, 2015

masterdigital said: ↑

mikeyh said: ↑

@jables (probably still away) @masterdigital

I'm trying to track down an issue where the following occurs:

1 or more players (sometimes most of them) do not spawn into the game

players who do spawn can't build anything

lobby json info looks corrupted on server

What was the cause of the disconnect issues? By any chance was it corrupted JSON data structures?
Click to expand...

The disconnection issues where caused by a catastrophic error inside our server side JS engine. However, failure to spawn/and or build could easily be caused by corrupted lobby JSON.

If the problem persists, a lobby id where the bug occurred would be very helpful.
Click to expand...

Hey I've noticed this bug too twice. 10 player ffa. 5 players make it and the other 5 get stuck in the loading screen. The server automatically makes it a 5 player ffa. Game is bugged and UI won't give any response.

How do I get you the lobby ID?

killerkiwijuice · June 1, 2015

Alpha2546 said: ↑

masterdigital said: ↑

mikeyh said: ↑

@jables (probably still away) @masterdigital

I'm trying to track down an issue where the following occurs:

1 or more players (sometimes most of them) do not spawn into the game

players who do spawn can't build anything

lobby json info looks corrupted on server

What was the cause of the disconnect issues? By any chance was it corrupted JSON data structures?
Click to expand...

The disconnection issues where caused by a catastrophic error inside our server side JS engine. However, failure to spawn/and or build could easily be caused by corrupted lobby JSON.

If the problem persists, a lobby id where the bug occurred would be very helpful.
Click to expand...

Hey I've noticed this bug too twice. 10 player ffa. 5 players make it and the other 5 get stuck in the loading screen. The server automatically makes it a 5 player ffa. Game is bugged and UI won't give any response.

How do I get you the lobby ID?
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PA stats

masterdigital · June 1, 2015

cola_colin said: ↑

1. Start 2x PA client
2. Start local server
3. join the server and make a 2 human vs 2 AI teamgame
4. get a crash on the screen that shows the commanders of the players fulllscreen right before launching.

This happened 2 times in a row. From the chat I seem to be not alone with it. The crash is some access violation, to be precise the asm command in the address 1404CBDAB fails to do whatever it should do, according to what the server printed.

EDIT: actually I just had this 3 times in a row vs 1 absurd AI on forge.

EDIT:
Another bug I noticed, that may be older, is that it seems you dont see any command lines between the locations of commands. Like for example the line between move commands is missing. It seems to behave like in team games, where you also can see the commands themselves, but not the connecting lines, for all commands of your teammates.
My memory reader tells me the command entities themselves exist on the client, but the list of command ids on the units that tells the game what commands a unit actually has is empty.

Another thing is that it seems that in replays sometimes mex spots magically disappear. Like they are not part of the replay at all.
This may be related to reloading the UI while watching a replay.

EDIT:
another one:
The chronocam timebar "play fast forward" button does not work.
A quick look in the debugger shows it is bound to model.playForward, which has this code:
self.paused(false);
self.timeSpeed(1.0);
api.time.play(1.0);

the button that skims back fast in turn works. It works by calling this code:
var ts = self.timeSpeed();
ts = ((ts < 0.0) ? ts * 2.0 : -2.0);
self.timeSpeed(ts);
api.time.play(ts);

I would say that should be easy to fix, but trying it seems fast forward does not work at all?
Calling
api.time.play(-3);
plays backwards fast
calling
api.time.play(10);
is normal playback speed foward?!

It seems doing this is the best way right now for me to fast forward replays:
setInterval(function() {api.time.skip(1);}, 100);
works

EDIT:
I've not seen what it does, but I think the code that handles the removal of the control groups when in spectator mode isn't written correctly. It binds the visiblity of the control groups to a pure function. Meaning the element in live_game with the id #control_group_bar has a data-bind:visible: $root.showControlGroups()
and that is bound to model.showControlGroups() which is a pure function:

I assumed it was an observable and crashed my code
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showControlGroups should be a computed object. This has been fixed. I am unable to reproduce your timebar bugs in the mainline. I'll check the behavior again after the next PTE (which should be very soon).

Thanks for reporting this.

mikeyh · June 1, 2015

Normally you can get the lobbyId from PA Stats but not with these broken games.

I'll add something to faster server browser to log the lobbyId during connect.

@masterdigital

This issue seems to happen with many players/armies. I haven't hosted any team games so not sure if it is just FFA.

I can't reproduce with AI players so it seems you need real players.

Here's an example reproduced on a custom server of the corrupt lobby info (without uberIds and IP addresses):

Code:

{
        "game": {
                "armies": [
                        {
                                "slots": [
                                        "player"
                                ],
                                "alliance_group": 0
                        },
                        {
                                "slots": [
                                        "player"
                                ],
                                "alliance_group": 0
                        },
                        {
                                "slots": [
                                        "player"
                                ],
                                "alliance_group": 0
                        },
                        {
                                "slots": [
                                        "player"
                                ],
                                "alliance_group": 0
                        },
                        {
                                "slots": [
                                        "player"
                                ],
                                "alliance_group": 0
                        },
                        {
                                "slots": [
                                        "player"
                                ],
                                "alliance_group": 0
                        },
                        {
                                "slots": [
                                        "player"
                                ],
                                "alliance_group": 0
                        },
                        {
                                "slots": [
                                        "player"
                                ],
                                "alliance_group": 0
                        },
                        {
                                "slots": [
                                        "player"
                                ],
                                "alliance_group": 0
                        },
                        {
                                "slots": [
                                        "player"
                                ],
                                "alliance_group": 0
                        },
                        {
                                "slots": [
                                        "player"
                                ],
                                "alliance_group": 0
                        "slot": 0,
                        "ai": false,
                        "personality": ""
                },
                "DeadAngel": {
                        "name": "DeadAngel",
                        "commander": {
                                "ObjectName": "RaptorNemicus",
                                "UnitSpec": "/pa/units/commanders/raptor_nemicus/raptor_nemicus.json"
                        },
                        "client": {
                                "data": "{\"uberid\":\"<snip>\",\"uuid\":null}",
                                "debugDesc": "<snip>:<snip>",
                                "connected": true,
                                "id": "DeadAngel",
                                "name": "DeadAngel"
                        },
                        "army": 17,
                        "slot": 0,
                        "ai": false,
                        "personality": ""
                },
                "Nutsh": {
                        "name": "Nutsh",
                        "commander": {
                                "ObjectName": "QuadOsiris",
                                "UnitSpec": "/pa/units/commanders/quad_osiris/quad_osiris.json"
                        },
                        "client": {
                                "data": "{\"uberid\":\"<snip>\",\"uuid\":null}",
                                "debugDesc": "<snip>:<snip>",
                                "connected": true,
                                "id": "Nutsh",
                                "name": "Nutsh"
                        },
                        "army": 18,
                        "slot": 0,
                        "ai": false,
                        "personality": ""
                }
        },
        "ranked": false
}

Here's the beacon:

Code:

{
    "beacon": "{\"whitelist\":[],\"require_password\":false,\"game\":{\"name\":\"19 FFA on zappy\",\"system\":{\"planets\":[{\"name\":\"gassy\",\"mass\":50000,\"required_thrust_to_move\":0,\"starting_planet\":false,\"position\":[68900.0234375,5599.939453125],\"velocity\":[-6.889614582061768,84.76776885986328],\"generator\":{\"biome\":\"gas\",\"radius\":1000,\"biomeScale\":100,\"metalClusters\":100,\"landingZonesPerArmy\":0,\"metalDensity\":100,\"symmetricalStarts\":false,\"temperature\":50,\"numArmies\":2,\"symmetricalMetal\":false,\"landingZoneSize\":0,\"symmetryType\":\"none\",\"seed\":31,\"heightRange\":100,\"waterHeight\":70,\"waterDepth\":0}},{\"name\":\"moony\",\"mass\":5000,\"required_thrust_to_move\":3,\"starting_planet\":true,\"position\":[81100,-3300.0009765625],\"velocity\":[-82.71888732910156,-19.178482055664062],\"generator\":{\"biome\":\"moon\",\"radius\":400,\"biomeScale\":100,\"metalClusters\":50,\"landingZonesPerArmy\":0,\"metalDensity\":50,\"symmetricalStarts\":false,\"temperature\":75,\"numArmies\":2,\"symmetricalMetal\":false,\"landingZoneSize\":0,\"symmetryType\":\"none\",\"seed\":31001,\"heightRange\":100,\"waterHeight\":-1,\"waterDepth\":0}},{\"name\":\"zappy\",\"mass\":35000,\"required_thrust_to_move\":0,\"starting_planet\":true,\"position\":[59300,3000],\"velocity\":[-48.334388732910156,237.79852294921875],\"generator\":{\"biome\":\"metal\",\"radius\":760,\"biomeScale\":50,\"metalClusters\":100,\"landingZonesPerArmy\":0,\"metalDensity\":100,\"symmetricalStarts\":true,\"temperature\":100,\"numArmies\":2,\"symmetricalMetal\":true,\"landingZoneSize\":0,\"symmetryType\":\"terrain and CSG\",\"seed\":6846,\"heightRange\":100,\"waterHeight\":0,\"waterDepth\":0}},{\"name\":\"moony2\",\"mass\":5000,\"required_thrust_to_move\":3,\"starting_planet\":true,\"position\":[88200,4100.0009765625],\"velocity\":[-15.694963455200195,-28.532310485839844],\"generator\":{\"biome\":\"moon\",\"radius\":400,\"biomeScale\":100,\"metalClusters\":50,\"landingZonesPerArmy\":0,\"metalDensity\":50,\"symmetricalStarts\":false,\"temperature\":100,\"numArmies\":2,\"symmetricalMetal\":false,\"landingZoneSize\":0,\"symmetryType\":\"none\",\"seed\":78462,\"heightRange\":100,\"waterHeight\":-1,\"waterDepth\":0}}],\"name\":\"zappy\"}},\"spectator_names\":[],\"player_names\":[\"mikeyh\",\"SirKillsaLot\",\"Xamxe\",\"WhiteTrash\",\"ApulJack\",\"paligap\",\"Omegas-0\",\"[RLM]AndreasG\",\"[MBC]TesseractA\",\"[RLM]Knarf\",\"startrek420\",\"[DOPE]AdmiralGeneral\",\"william86370\",\"icedgravity\",\"sylr\",\"iLink\",\"Aaryn\",\"DeadAngel\",\"Nutsh\"],\"spectators\":0,\"full\":false,\"mode\":\"FreeForAll\",\"uuid\":\"O7pTQPjyaTj2WCWIRxDaZ2GYRyWWdNdL\",\"started\":true,\"tag\":\"Casual\",\"cheat_config\":{\"cheat_flags\":{\"any_enabled\":false,\"allow_mod_data_updates\":false,\"allow_create_unit\":false,\"allow_change_control\":false,\"allow_change_vision\":false}},\"mod_names\":[\"Custom Server\",\"Display Rank\",\"Game Invites\",\"Ready Up\",\"Who Deleted That\",\"PA Server Mod Manager\",\"PA Stats Server\"],\"players\":19,\"blacklist\":[\"2637261481794917492\"],\"max_spectators\":10,\"max_players\":19,\"creator\":\"mikeyh\",\"region\":\"palobby.com\"}",
    "ip": "173.193.143.91",
    "port": "20545",
    "id": "66131906723603",
    "version": "82369"
}

masterdigital · June 2, 2015

Alpha2546 said: ↑

masterdigital said: ↑

mikeyh said: ↑

@jables (probably still away) @masterdigital

I'm trying to track down an issue where the following occurs:

1 or more players (sometimes most of them) do not spawn into the game

players who do spawn can't build anything

lobby json info looks corrupted on server

What was the cause of the disconnect issues? By any chance was it corrupted JSON data structures?
Click to expand...

The disconnection issues where caused by a catastrophic error inside our server side JS engine. However, failure to spawn/and or build could easily be caused by corrupted lobby JSON.

If the problem persists, a lobby id where the bug occurred would be very helpful.
Click to expand...

Hey I've noticed this bug too twice. 10 player ffa. 5 players make it and the other 5 get stuck in the loading screen. The server automatically makes it a 5 player ffa. Game is bugged and UI won't give any response.

How do I get you the lobby ID?
Click to expand...

From the replays list. I need to add an easier way to access this (in case the game does last long enough to generate a replay).

mikeyh · June 2, 2015

masterdigital said: ↑

Alpha2546 said: ↑

masterdigital said: ↑

mikeyh said: ↑

@jables (probably still away) @masterdigital

I'm trying to track down an issue where the following occurs:

1 or more players (sometimes most of them) do not spawn into the game

players who do spawn can't build anything

lobby json info looks corrupted on server

What was the cause of the disconnect issues? By any chance was it corrupted JSON data structures?
Click to expand...

The disconnection issues where caused by a catastrophic error inside our server side JS engine. However, failure to spawn/and or build could easily be caused by corrupted lobby JSON.

If the problem persists, a lobby id where the bug occurred would be very helpful.
Click to expand...

Hey I've noticed this bug too twice. 10 player ffa. 5 players make it and the other 5 get stuck in the loading screen. The server automatically makes it a 5 player ffa. Game is bugged and UI won't give any response.

How do I get you the lobby ID?
Click to expand...

From the replays list. I need to add an easier way to access this (in case the game does last long enough to generate a replay).
Click to expand...

I'm pretty sure these never make it into replays and looking at my replays there seems to be a lot missing.

eg 4971977772227045624, 9506294838092588502, 1916134422991769443, etc

masterdigital · June 2, 2015

cola_colin said: ↑

1. Start 2x PA client
2. Start local server
3. join the server and make a 2 human vs 2 AI teamgame
4. get a crash on the screen that shows the commanders of the players fulllscreen right before launching.

This happened 2 times in a row. From the chat I seem to be not alone with it. The crash is some access violation, to be precise the asm command in the address 1404CBDAB fails to do whatever it should do, according to what the server printed.

EDIT: actually I just had this 3 times in a row vs 1 absurd AI on forge.

EDIT:
Another bug I noticed, that may be older, is that it seems you dont see any command lines between the locations of commands. Like for example the line between move commands is missing. It seems to behave like in team games, where you also can see the commands themselves, but not the connecting lines, for all commands of your teammates.
My memory reader tells me the command entities themselves exist on the client, but the list of command ids on the units that tells the game what commands a unit actually has is empty.

Another thing is that it seems that in replays sometimes mex spots magically disappear. Like they are not part of the replay at all.
This may be related to reloading the UI while watching a replay.

EDIT:
another one:
The chronocam timebar "play fast forward" button does not work.
A quick look in the debugger shows it is bound to model.playForward, which has this code:
self.paused(false);
self.timeSpeed(1.0);
api.time.play(1.0);

the button that skims back fast in turn works. It works by calling this code:
var ts = self.timeSpeed();
ts = ((ts < 0.0) ? ts * 2.0 : -2.0);
self.timeSpeed(ts);
api.time.play(ts);

I would say that should be easy to fix, but trying it seems fast forward does not work at all?
Calling
api.time.play(-3);
plays backwards fast
calling
api.time.play(10);
is normal playback speed foward?!

It seems doing this is the best way right now for me to fast forward replays:
setInterval(function() {api.time.skip(1);}, 100);
works

EDIT:
I've not seen what it does, but I think the code that handles the removal of the control groups when in spectator mode isn't written correctly. It binds the visiblity of the control groups to a pure function. Meaning the element in live_game with the id #control_group_bar has a data-bind:visible: $root.showControlGroups()
and that is bound to model.showControlGroups() which is a pure function:

I assumed it was an observable and crashed my code
Click to expand...

I can repro the playForwards bug in live however. It seem to be fixed in main, however.

masterdigital · June 2, 2015

elodea said: ↑

attack move still not working reliably, nor target prioritisation. Replays still not consistently showing metal income movement.

Appreciate the resume anywhere, the saves, the ai improvements. I get that you're trying to fix up the singleplayer experience and that's all kool. But I hope we get a patch that fixes some seriously fundamental gameplay bugs more related to multiplayer sometime soon.
Click to expand...

When a replay doesn't show metal changes over time, does the bug always occur for a given replay, or does it randomly occur with a given replay? Also, the way replays are handle has been changed significantly; if there are new replays which consistently repro this bug I would like to take a look at them.

Alpha2546 · June 2, 2015

mikeyh said: ↑

masterdigital said: ↑

Alpha2546 said: ↑

masterdigital said: ↑

The disconnection issues where caused by a catastrophic error inside our server side JS engine. However, failure to spawn/and or build could easily be caused by corrupted lobby JSON.

If the problem persists, a lobby id where the bug occurred would be very helpful.
Click to expand...

Hey I've noticed this bug too twice. 10 player ffa. 5 players make it and the other 5 get stuck in the loading screen. The server automatically makes it a 5 player ffa. Game is bugged and UI won't give any response.

How do I get you the lobby ID?
Click to expand...

From the replays list. I need to add an easier way to access this (in case the game does last long enough to generate a replay).
Click to expand...

I'm pretty sure these never make it into replays and looking at my replays there seems to be a lot missing.

eg 4971977772227045624, 9506294838092588502, 1916134422991769443, etc
Click to expand...

Only thing I have right now

[00:21:33.985] INFO Connect to ec2-54-144-209-69.compute-1.amazonaws.com:9006 worked

Time is observing Central European Summer Time (CEST).

Maybe its helpful. I can't see the game back in the replay or pa stats unfortunately.

Alpha2546 · June 2, 2015

masterdigital said: ↑

elodea said: ↑

attack move still not working reliably, nor target prioritisation. Replays still not consistently showing metal income movement.

Appreciate the resume anywhere, the saves, the ai improvements. I get that you're trying to fix up the singleplayer experience and that's all kool. But I hope we get a patch that fixes some seriously fundamental gameplay bugs more related to multiplayer sometime soon.
Click to expand...

When a replay doesn't show metal changes over time, does the bug always occur for a given replay, or does it randomly occur with a given replay? Also, the way replays are handle has been changed significantly; if there are new replays which consistently repro this bug I would like to take a look at them.
Click to expand...

lostmekka said: ↑

Maybe this is already known, but the eco tab only seems to break if you WIN the game. if you lose, all is well... Maybe that is the reason for why the devs didn't notice it? ;p
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mikeyh · June 2, 2015

@masterdigital

Has anyone else mentioned that global spectator chat is broken?

masterdigital · June 2, 2015

Alpha2546 said: ↑

masterdigital said: ↑

elodea said: ↑

attack move still not working reliably, nor target prioritisation. Replays still not consistently showing metal income movement.

Appreciate the resume anywhere, the saves, the ai improvements. I get that you're trying to fix up the singleplayer experience and that's all kool. But I hope we get a patch that fixes some seriously fundamental gameplay bugs more related to multiplayer sometime soon.
Click to expand...

When a replay doesn't show metal changes over time, does the bug always occur for a given replay, or does it randomly occur with a given replay? Also, the way replays are handle has been changed significantly; if there are new replays which consistently repro this bug I would like to take a look at them.
Click to expand...

lostmekka said: ↑

Maybe this is already known, but the eco tab only seems to break if you WIN the game. if you lose, all is well... Maybe that is the reason for why the devs didn't notice it? ;p
Click to expand...

Click to expand...

I have submitted a fix (for the issue where spectator information was not being updated for the winning player).

masterdigital · June 2, 2015

mikeyh said: ↑

@masterdigital

Has anyone else mentioned that global spectator chat is broken?
Click to expand...

No. I will investigate.

Alpha2546 · June 2, 2015

I've got these small ones too. @masterdigital

I tried clicking on the alerts in the chronocam bar but it doesn't do anything. It won't go back to that point

You can keep the simulation going by doing the following when ending a game.

finish game -> click on menu button -> select player guide -> close down player guide -> press the resume button = Sim will continue to run. <- This was with an AI game

The armory return button icon isn't there. It only shows up when you hover over the square. Not a big problem either

masterdigital · June 2, 2015

masterdigital said: ↑

mikeyh said: ↑

@masterdigital

Has anyone else mentioned that global spectator chat is broken?
Click to expand...

No. I will investigate.
Click to expand...

I have submitted a fix. Thanks for reporting this.

masterdigital · June 2, 2015

Alpha2546 said: ↑

I tried clicking on the alerts in the chronocam bar but it doesn't do anything. It won't go back to that point

Click to expand...

Yep, those ticks don't work. In fact, I removed them completely from main because the cause the ui to crash when spectating long (20-30 min) games. I'll add them back and fix them when we have a better system to filter alerts so there aren't too many. However, there is a mod for this.

Alpha2546 said: ↑

The armory return button icon isn't there. It only shows up when you hover over the square. Not a big problem either

Click to expand...

This is part of a larger UI rendering issue. We are working on a fix.

Alpha2546 said: ↑

You can keep the simulation going by doing the following when ending a game.

finish game -> click on menu button -> select player guide -> close down player guide -> press the resume button = Sim will continue to run. <- This was with an AI game

Click to expand...

I will investigate this.

mikeyh · June 2, 2015

I've added lobbyId logging to the faster server browser client mod for hosts and for all players via the game invites server mod.

You can search the PA logs for lobby_id.

mikeyh · June 2, 2015

I've also added logging to the faster server browser client mod for api.net.joinGame in the server browser for join / spectate issues.

You can search the PA logs for api.net.joinGame.

Hotfix Build 82369 now live!

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