hi all, I was testing my desktop to see if it could handle a LAN party I want to organise with a couple friends, using my two work laptops (dual core HT i5+ 8GB RAM + Quadro K1000M). What i did is create a local server on the desktop with 10 AI FFA and 3 spectator slots. I set all three computer as spectators and let the game begin. After some time i needed one of the laptops for someting else, so I Alt-F4 out of PA. Then i wanted to connect back so I restarted PA and found out that the three slots were taken. I thought this mightbe due to the brutal Alt-F4ing, so i tried to cleanly quit the game on the other laptop (clicking on the Main Menu button) and the slot did not empty itself either. I event tried to quit to menu on the desktop, and while the server kept running it was impossible to connect to it. Also, if you try to spectate a game that is in progress, on a not yet used slot, it doesnt work, but I think thats known already. Cheers
The "late joining spectators cannot see anything" bug is well known. Been around for at least 10 stable builds now, so I asume low priority or difficulty to fix. But that the offline server is not properly disposing of DC'ed spectators is new (when you quit the game - regardless wich way - eventually the server should asume disconnection). But then again I have not been a spectator very often.
