Invisible Players

Spectre-7 · 2011-05-15 18:36:18 UTC

After logging into a dedicated server, teammates and enemy players are occasionally invisible. When it’s teammates who are invisible, they can still be located by a floating nametag and a healthbar that’s continually empty (when playing as Medic). The players are invisible only while alive; after they die, a corpse becomes visible. This state persists through multiple levels, and only seems to be affected by leaving a server and rejoining.

I’ve confirmed with other players that this isn’t just local; players are sometimes invisible to a single player, and sometimes invisible to multiple players. It seems to occur more often with people who are on my friend’s list, but that may just be my perception. I have, however, joined a server and discovered that the entire enemy team was invisible, which made for some awfully confusing combat… I thought they were just really good at hiding at first.

I haven’t figured out any specific steps to replicate, but I’m seeing several occurrences every day so it must not be terribly uncommon.

Kublakhan · 2011-05-15 19:11:15 UTC

I can confirm this. A log file is attached. (Happened on the last map, so skip forward to ‘ccity_loading’.)

amazinglarry · 2011-05-16 19:05:36 UTC

I’ve run into the same issue a few times over the past couple of days. Occasionally there’s an invisible player (usually on the other team, although once or twice I’ve noticed invisible players on my own team) and it can make for a frustrating experience, being shot to death by somebody you can’t even see. Although I think that goes without saying hahah.

I haven’t been able to notice enough consistent environments where this is happening though, to further pinpoint why. It’s happened on all different maps, sometimes at the start of matches, sometimes in the middle etc.

And to clarify, it’s all types of players. Human and bot alike.

Dormamu · 2011-05-17 00:29:53 UTC

Happening to me to.
When the game start, i hit Tab, to see the players, if y don’t see the other team shown, then i know that on this map they will all be invisible
Sometimes is showing only 1 member in the other team, is the only one i see
This bug is resetting/gone on the next map. When it hits, i switch to support class and shoot in the direction others are shooting until the body is appearing on the ground, is rather funny and hilarious.

Lionaro · 2011-05-18 07:45:35 UTC

I hope theyre going to fix this asap. Its no fun to play against invisibles.

Spectre-7 · 2011-05-19 00:50:06 UTC

Just had it happen again (this time it was the entire bot enemy team), and I noticed some errors in the console of the form “WARNING: entity13idBot (564 159 16) - bodyType is NULL!”. Here’s a screengrab; click for full size.

Trivve · 2011-05-27 09:11:28 UTC

This happened to me also. Actually happened at the start of a new map. I also saw him disappear just as the match-countdown was done. It looked like he changed team and suicided.

Log while chasing him around…


wuff joined the Security
swardspear joined the Security
All Stats Cleared
Migration other match state 15: 1
All Stats Cleared
[Ger]Mad-187 joined the Security
BIG BOSS joined the Resistance
Dexter joined the Resistance
L1ghTy joined the Security
[Kb3] - Ouchhh joined the Resistance
WARNING: Thread '': GetNetVarFloat: 'pistol_04_reload_complete_fraction' 0.890000 clamped to 0.875000 (min: 0.0000 max: 0.8750)
WARNING: Thread '': GetNetVarFloat: 'pistol_03_reload_complete_fraction' 0.890000 clamped to 0.875000 (min: 0.0000 max: 0.8750)
WARNING: Thread '': GetNetVarFloat: 'pistol_05_reload_complete_fraction' 0.890000 clamped to 0.875000 (min: 0.0000 max: 0.8750)
1: Freeing unused ccf with id 2 for team 1
Spent 120ms waiting
Spent 371ms total
Finished compositing contextId 19 team security (0) cinematic: false
WARNING: Thread '': GetNetVarFloat: 'assault_rifle_02_reload_complete_fraction' 0.890000 clamped to 0.875000 (min: 0.0000 max: 0.8750)
WARNING: Thread '': GetNetVarFloat: 'pistol_04_reload_complete_fraction' 0.890000 clamped to 0.875000 (min: 0.0000 max: 0.8750)
WARNING: Thread '': GetNetVarFloat: 'pistol_02_reload_complete_fraction' 0.890000 clamped to 0.875000 (min: 0.0000 max: 0.8750)
1: Freeing unused ccf with id 18 for team 1
1: Freeing unused ccf with id 20 for team 1
1: Freeing unused ccf with id 3 for team 1
Spent 54ms waiting
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Finished compositing contextId 17 team resistance (1) cinematic: false
Spent 66ms waiting
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Finished compositing contextId 18 team security (0) cinematic: false
Spent 45ms waiting
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Finished compositing contextId 18 team resistance (1) cinematic: false
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
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WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
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WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
sTriKer 47 joined the Security
1: Freeing unused ccf with id 1 for team 1
Spent 77ms waiting
Spent 389ms total
Finished compositing contextId -2 team security (0) cinematic: false
Corwin joined the Spectators
Parsed gui 'democharge' in 0 ms
Parsed gui 'democharge' in 0 ms
WARNING: Thread '': GetNetVarFloat: 'assault_rifle_02_reload_complete_fraction' 0.890000 clamped to 0.875000 (min: 0.0000 max: 0.8750)
Parsed gui 'democharge' in 0 ms
vity76 joined the Resistance
.ThS.Raziel-Thorn. joined the Resistance
WARNING: entity4idBot (102 -841 -256) - bodyType is NULL!
1: Freeing unused ccf with id -2 for team 1
Spent 67ms waiting
Spent 449ms total
Finished compositing contextId -2 team resistance (1) cinematic: false
WARNING: Thread '': GetNetVarFloat: 'assault_rifle_02_reload_complete_fraction' 0.890000 clamped to 0.875000 (min: 0.0000 max: 0.8750)
Migration other match state 3: 1
Migration other match state 1: 0
.ThS.Raziel-Thorn. Disconnected.
Migration other match state 1: 45
WARNING: Thread '': GetNetVarFloat: 'pistol_03_reload_complete_fraction' 0.890000 clamped to 0.875000 (min: 0.0000 max: 0.8750)
Migration other match state 1: 44
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Migration other match state 1: 39
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Migration other match state 1: 37
Migration other match state 1: 36
Migration other match state 1: 36
Migration other match state 11: 1
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
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Sixp0und3r joined the Resistance
1: Freeing unused ccf with id 17 for team 1
Spent 16ms waiting
Spent 349ms total
Finished compositing contextId -2 team resistance (1) cinematic: false
WARNING: Thread '': GetNetVarFloat: 'pistol_03_reload_complete_fraction' 0.890000 clamped to 0.875000 (min: 0.0000 max: 0.8750)
1: Freeing unused ccf with id 18 for team 0
Spent 79ms waiting
Spent 336ms total
Finished compositing contextId 20 team security (0) cinematic: false
[h?TaN] Zogg joined the Resistance
1: Freeing unused ccf with id 18 for team 1
Spent 59ms waiting
Spent 404ms total
Finished compositing contextId -2 team resistance (1) cinematic: false
Dexter: sound gone?
vity76 Disconnected.
1: Freeing unused ccf with id -2 for team 1
Spent 80ms waiting
Spent 331ms total
Finished compositing contextId 19 team resistance (1) cinematic: false
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Thread '': GetNetVarFloat: 'pistol_03_reload_complete_fraction' 0.890000 clamped to 0.875000 (min: 0.0000 max: 0.8750)
Parsed gui 'democharge' in 0 ms
WARNING: entity4idBot (-406 282 -335) - bodyType is NULL!
WARNING: entity4idBot (-406 281 -335) - bodyType is NULL!
BIG BOSS Disconnected.
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
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WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
Parsed gui 'democharge' in 0 ms
Dexter Disconnected.
oddfew ;> joined the Resistance
1: Freeing unused ccf with id -2 for team 1
Spent 69ms waiting
Spent 430ms total
Finished compositing contextId -2 team resistance (1) cinematic: false
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Thread '': GetNetVarFloat: 'pistol_04_reload_complete_fraction' 0.890000 clamped to 0.875000 (min: 0.0000 max: 0.8750)
leonow97 joined the Resistance
1: Freeing unused ccf with id -2 for team 1
Spent 20ms waiting
Spent 343ms total
Finished compositing contextId -2 team resistance (1) cinematic: false
WARNING: Thread '': GetNetVarFloat: 'assault_rifle_02_reload_complete_fraction' 0.890000 clamped to 0.875000 (min: 0.0000 max: 0.8750)
WARNING: Thread '': GetNetVarFloat: 'pistol_02_reload_complete_fraction' 0.890000 clamped to 0.875000 (min: 0.0000 max: 0.8750)
1: Freeing unused ccf with id 20 for team 0
Spent 0ms waiting
Spent 288ms total
Finished compositing contextId 18 team security (0) cinematic: false
Migration other match state 4: 2
oddfew ;>: :LDDD
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
WARNING: Cannot setup weapon for body - no model
wuff: :D
Lombardi joined the Spectators
Migration primary match state: 1
oddfew ;>: what are the chances
oddfew ;>: btw, i downloaded a driver from guru3d
wuff: bo vent
oddfew ;>: +40 fps increase
WARNING: Thread '': GetNetVarFloat: 'pistol_03_reload_complete_fraction' 0.890000 clamped to 0.875000 (min: 0.0000 max: 0.8750)
SamLombardo joined the Resistance
1: Freeing unused ccf with id 17 for team 1
Migration other match state 1: 35
Spent 27ms waiting
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Finished compositing contextId -2 team resistance (1) cinematic: false
Migration other match state 4: 1
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Sw3D joined the Resistance
1: Freeing unused ccf with id 19 for team 1
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Finished compositing contextId -2 team resistance (1) cinematic: false
Migration other match state 1: 32
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Migration other match state 14: 2
WARNING: Thread '': GetNetVarFloat: 'pistol_03_reload_complete_fraction' 0.890000 clamped to 0.875000 (min: 0.0000 max: 0.8750)
12 Gauge Facial joined the Security
1: Freeing unused ccf with id 19 for team 0
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Finished compositing contextId -2 team security (0) cinematic: false
Migration other match state 4: 2
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MaxiM · 2011-05-27 12:04:38 UTC

It sure happens to me as well:

Smonkey · 2011-05-29 21:28:46 UTC

This sums it up nicely.

Smonkey · 2011-05-29 21:36:46 UTC

This sums it up nicely.

syndicatedragon · 2011-05-29 22:29:42 UTC

Happens to me as well. This plus the corrupted text issue (esp. on the server browser screen) is making the game not much fun to play.

TheDuplex · 2011-05-30 00:42:35 UTC

Happend to me today 2 times! After mapchange i just saw one enemy player… campaign mode. I reconnect, that helped, but is annoying!

rookie1 · 2011-05-30 01:08:14 UTC

just happened to me too and happend before last patch also
Edit :just a clue could it be related to when there is Spectating in the game ??

Sandman77 · 2011-05-30 19:38:39 UTC

had it twice before patch, after latest not once but doubt that fixed it.

Could it be a cheat?

Je_T_aime · 2011-05-30 22:11:52 UTC

Its a game bug, previous games with the same engine also had that bug, but it really sux when a enemy is invisible you have no chances vs him.

AnthonyDa · 2011-05-31 16:40:38 UTC

Nope.
This happens on servers without spect slot too.