TehSeraphim
Thread Ender
+58|7151|New Hampshire
Ok, so this isn't so much a complain as it is a big wtf?

Everyones familiar with the red/blue tag bug, where you show up red to friendlies, and enemies show up blue to you.  Well, today (during my quest for the good conduct medal), I stumbled across an even larger version of this bug. 

I was playing 24/7 Karkand on TSH's server, whoring with an APC because I want to get this medal out of the way quickly so I can go back to making points as a dirty medic whore.  And then it happened.

I got rammed by a jihad jeep and autoswitched teams.  However, the computer still thought I was on USMC, so I spawneed at the gas station as normal and took the APC.  Let me reiterate this; I spawned AT the gas station AS MEC.  I didn't so much notice that I was on MEC just yet because sometimes the sounds on my computer get messed up and if I get switched or something I'll stay on the same team but the commands and speech from players comes through in arabic.

I was freaked out because as you know, for the good conduct medal you can't get any friendly damage - at all.  Zip, nadda, none.  I had NO idea what team I was on - so I caps lock and looked at the kit menu and it said I was on USMC.  I clicked USMC again to double checked and it killed me and set me on MEC.  Wtf? haha

Sidenote : I went 2 rounds trying for this medal - one round as commander where I *may* have hurt a teammate with artillery, although I got NO TK's and no team vehicle damage messages on my HUD.  The 2nd round I went for it this glitch happened and I got the suicide.  Are these the reasons I didn't get the medal or was the server just goin' loopy?
oberst_enzian
Member
+234|7170|melb.au
lol there was another guy here somewhere that swore he spawned on the US carrier as a memeber of the opposite team... the bug has a funny side after all
SpecialOp21
Member
+0|7133|USA
I've seen people on the US team that have an MEC skin a few times. They had blue names, but I ended up blowing them away before the name showed up and got some nice teamkills. Some strange things can happen in BF2...
{HMS}_Sir_Del_Boy
Member
+69|7136|th3 unkn0wn

oberst_enzian wrote:

lol there was another guy here somewhere that swore he spawned on the US carrier as a memeber of the opposite team...
A.K.A. "auto infiltration". Courtesy of BF2's dodgy programming.
Vic42
Member
+2|7150|Sacramento, California

TehSeraphim wrote:

. . . I didn't so much notice that I was on MEC just yet because sometimes the sounds on my computer get messed up and if I get switched or something I'll stay on the same team but the commands and speech from players comes through in Arabic.
I've selected to get everything in English, since I don't know "medic" from "artillery" in Arabic or Chinese. Occasionally, I'll get confused about which team I'm on and have to check the flag by the blue side of the ticket counter. :p

Getting a suicide for switching team really stinks, particularly in those cases where the server just immediately switches you back. I once got three suicides in the same round before I figured out what was going on.
TehSeraphim
Thread Ender
+58|7151|New Hampshire
Yeah - it wouldn't have been so bad if I wasn't going for a medal in which suicides make it automatically impossile to get.

Note - I DID earn this medal, 2 hours ago - hasn't shown up in stats yet.  Hopin' it shows up soon I want some damn new shinyness in my profile haha
niomosy
Member
+26|7117
I've seen this.  I was playing Wake as USMC, sitting in the AA gun on the carrier.  A guy spawns red on the carrier.  I ended up killing him and got credit for the kill.  Even had a witness.  Bizarre, indeed.
Czech
Member
+0|7091|Ostrava, CZE
Well, i thought i will never meet this things but after getting slaughtered on yesterday many times by enemies from inside of buildings, today i seen much more - i was commanding on small karkand only server, my team was doing quite well, on the hotel and i decided to get a car and capture the MEC main flag. I killed two guys in there and was afraid i will not make it, but then our tank was comming. Flag was nearly ours so i showed my head out of cover to say thank you to the guy in tank, but he teamkilled me! Uh, ok, this things happen. I spawned again on main US base, took the car again and ride down. The tank was still there, but the flag was going to be MEC?! so i start the UAV, but no one was there, eh? I went near to the tank and he teamkilled me again! WTF, one of my squadleaders teamkilled me twice? Then i reallized... It was MEC guy, with green name, marked as my bravo squadleader, he was in stats on our side!!! and he got all the score for kills (although they were written as a teamkills on the screen), but he wasnt killed by other MEC guys and what more, i seen one of them (red-taged) hoping in to his tank... Of course, he gained plenty of kills in few minutes and we lost the round we had won before. Completely confused and properly red-hot i left the game... eh


thank you for letting me relase the steam

sorry my grammar

PS: i should have some screenshots, will take a look on them later, the tank guy name was one-way-ticket
sinir
damned
+2|7246|Boston
This same shit happened to me right when I joined a game a week or two ago.  One my first spawn I see baddies running all around me, killed a couple then got naded to all hell.  So I'm thinking great I spawned right into an uncappable flag rape.  It was an uncappable but it was my enemies.  At first I thought I had spawned onto a squad leader but I hadnt even joined a squad yet.  Friggin weird.

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