Thrown grenades while dying (buggy?)

2006-03-16 12:28:54

#1

ShotYourSix: Boldly going nowhere...; +196|7174|Las Vegas

Never seen this discussed before....

Must have been a hundred times I've tossed a grenade (i.e. heard the pin pop and SEEN the grenade fly) at the same moment I was killed. In MOST cases even though my grenade was shown flying through the air as I was killed, there is no explosion or resulting kills even when it most certainly should have landed in proximity to enemy soldier/s. Now occasionally, in the same exact same circumstances, I DO hear the explosion and/or get a kill as I am laying there in limbo.

I have no problem with the fact that in most cases I was likely killed before I let it fly but then if this is the case, why did the game bother to play the pin sound and draw a flying grenade when in fact it will never explode. Is this just an animation bug that is out of sync with the game?

I just do not understand how a thrown grenade simply disappears instantly upon my death and also why there seems to be little consistency in wether it actually explodes or not.

Any one else have any experience or opinions on this strangeness? It's really starting to drive me nuts.

2006-03-16 12:35:13

#2

SunTzu: Playdough! Nope C4...; +6|7177|Toronto, ON, CAN

This is typically a timing issue... Your machine registers that you threw the nade, but the server didn't process this info before you were killed. So it ignores it.

Same happens with claymores / AT mines... if you die just as it is about to land, it doesn't actually exist in the server yet.

It's a piss off, but the only way to avoid this play on a gigabyte ethernet connection to the server, while everyone else is remote. (Hey, isn't that Firestorm's situation?)

2006-03-16 12:43:29

#3

ShotYourSix: Boldly going nowhere...; +196|7174|Las Vegas

Yeah that would seem to explain it, as it only happens in the last split second of life.

2006-03-16 14:14:14

#4

No_Smoking: all your base are belong to us; +35|7151|Sacramento

I wish the nade was live the second you pull the pin. you die, it stays near your corpse and blows up. it would have both good and bad effects though.. bad, friendly dies trying to rev you.. good, enemy runs to your position and dies.

I think CS:S works like that.

2006-03-16 14:27:29

#5

Skruples: Mod Incarnate; +234|7155

yesterday I threw a grenade and got shot, and the grenade didnt register as having been thrown. Then someone revived me and a grenade popped out of me and killed us both. GG Dice

2006-03-16 14:45:38

#6

PunkX: stoned; +198|7078|Canada

I get this all the time, its just some gay thing that they screwed up, oh well. *shrug*

2006-03-16 15:16:07

#7

khmer: Member; +86|7132|Central California

Wow this happened to me many a times and I was wondering the same thing. Why it didn't kill any one when I saw the grenade fly and land near a few enemies. I just thought that it was just me and passed the grenade off as a dud.

2006-03-16 15:27:07

#8

fire1811: Member; +1|7294|Illinois

I too have notice the same thing
bugs me

2006-03-16 15:29:23

#9

SunTzu: Playdough! Nope C4...; +6|7177|Toronto, ON, CAN

Skruples wrote:
...Then someone revived me and a grenade popped out of me and killed us both...

See, to me, I would think that it was a bad job by the Medic... did he not hear you say "Grenade!"

Oh well... C'est la Glitch!

2006-03-16 15:41:35

#10

*OL*JoseyWales: Member; +8|7157|Phoenix Arizona

The one I hate is a TOW half way to target and the APC your shooting kills you and the TOW dissapears?? wtf why cant it hit ..

2006-03-16 15:43:24

#11

fire1811: Member; +1|7294|Illinois

*OL*JoseyWales wrote:
The one I hate is a TOW half way to target and the APC your shooting kills you and the TOW dissapears?? wtf why cant it hit ..

definitely sucks

Another thing I notice today while playing euro force on great wall. I was using the tow and two different times in the game I shot and no rocket came out. It was loaded and the firing sound was made but no rocket.

2006-03-16 20:08:56

#12

[QXJZ]Capt_Kefra: Alright, you're good to go!; +124|7183|Honolulu, HI

*OL*JoseyWales wrote:
The one I hate is a TOW half way to target and the APC your shooting kills you and the TOW dissapears?? wtf why cant it hit ..

Yup...this sucks. And in addition to happening with grenades and ground defense, it happens with the Eryx/SRAW too. My missile's locked on to a badly smoking tank that isn't going anywhere...then the gunner turns his turret towards me, kills me, and my missile disappears! Yay EA!

I'm pretty sure lag isn't responsible for this, it must be some stupid illogic on the programmer's part. Lag might be the cause of the grenade thrown at the moment of death thing, that's happened to me a lot too. Try it with smoke grenades--they leave behind pretty conclusive evidence if they detonate, after all.

2006-03-16 22:15:50

#13

Mr.Pieeater: Member; +116|7079|Cherry Pie

I hate when you throw a grenade and it bounces off of a light post or something and comes back at you. That has happened to me so much. Its cool that it does happen though. Better than going through the post.

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