So now I know why Fletcher's 'stuck' stickies disappear..

(stealthyCaper) #1

Played a match today and caught a sticky on my gun. Switched weapons and it vanished.
I wondered why my stickies sometimes just vanished playing as Fletcher, guess I got my answer.

(cornJester) #2

Well then they need to make them pass through weapons and attach to the bodies instead or miss.

(irishrOy) #3

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Really? That easy…? Maann…
Some hours ago that thing with teleportation appeared and now that…

(I’m not allowed to post a link to the post about someone who linked a video of that exploit, thoigh)

(sagaciousHarp) #4

I am having serious doubts about SD right now.

(misspo) #5

Give this guy a cooki…and a job

(mrlong2) #6

Thank you dude!

(fubar) #7

While this may be… a cause, it isn’t the cause for all of them. I’ve had stickies disappear that landed in a player’s face, feet, crotch, bum… everywhere. We’ve extensively tested it to try to figure out what a cause could be, weapons are one, but definitely not the only.

(stealthyCaper) #8

Who knows, it might have not been something so simple that the weapon vanishes and the sticky with it, it might have been the animation change of the weapon switch action.

What I do know is it was definitely stuck, still visible, but was gone after the weapon change. Perhaps animations that interrupt currently running animations might be the cause.

Projectile hit detection isn’t one of the strongest point in this game either, I’ve seen my Fragger’s missiles fly through walls as well, and not coming out at the other end.

(Amerika) #9

Can you get them to consistently get them to disappear without any incoming fire? I mention this because it’s possible sticky bombs are being shot and destroyed but not producing an explosion but removing themselves as an entity in the game.

I say this as just an idea towards what the problem could be. As it might be a few different issues all producing the same result (rather common in software development).

(irishrOy) #10

I for example experienced some disappearances mid-flight, too ^^
(Could be Amerika’s explanation. But TBH, I have never really seen someone shooting down a StickBomb. And if some1 shoots done one, it should like explode and maybe does not in maybe ~10% of each? And this has happened to me so often, that these 10%/X% seem not real.

(stealthyCaper) #11

I’ve mostly had Stickies vanish after having had them ‘stuck’ (complete with popup message) on someone. Amerika’s suggestion makes a lot of sense as well. I can’t quite guarantee I was not being riddled with holes at the time I caught that sticky with my gun, it tends to happen a lot to me in this game.

(XavienX) #12

Another possibility. Yesterday me and my friend were trying to start up a min lvl 10 server so we were messing around in the beginning. I stuck a sticky grenade in his face. He knifed it and sometimes he took damage or none at all and sometimes it would do damage to me or doesn’t do any. Idk if they technically disappear or when you stick it people could just destroy it and sometimes it doesn’t do any damage.

(Fiktio) #13

Today I was playing with my friend in a server, where everybody else left.
My friend was playing as Fletcher and he asked me to play against him with my katana only, while he is playing with cricket bat. So some sort of melee fight.

My friend placed 3-4 sticky bombs in the train to the roof and floor and there I was holding katana and wondering am I really supposed to destroy those with katana and will my friend notice if I destroy them first with my gun. While I was staring those sticky bombs, problem got “solved” and those stickies disappeared and in teamspeak the friend asked why they didn’t explode.

“Problem solved, I can defuse the bomb and melee fight may continue.”

(Yes) #14

That’s not the only cause, I’ve had plenty of stickies disappear from enemies that don’t switch weapons.

(Fap Fap Master) #15

I still can’t believe this bug is still in the game, why not fix that bug instead of releasing new content.

(Gi.Am) #16

To be honest looking at this tread, and how many theories fly around about what is causing that bug. It seems to be hard to track down. Which would explain why it hasn’t been fixed.

Also since Fiktio mentions 3-4 stikies. Shouldn’t there be 3 stickies active at most and older ones start to disappear when new ones get thrown. Could it be a ID / timestamp /latency problem that confuses which stickies to erase and which not?

(Fiktio) #17

Good question. 2 were on the roof and 1-2 on the floor. I don’t remember exactly how many there were on the floor and was one thrown afterwards to be there, but the result was still the same: They all vanished.

(_Sniff_) #18

Just tested it. Only 3 stickies are allowed.

(Fiktio) #19

[quote=“Sniff;62684”]Just tested it. Only 3 stickies are allowed.
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Will previous stickies start disappearing, if you start throwing more of them or are you even able to plant more before activating them?
(I said 3-4 at first place, because I remembered two of them being on the roof right above C4 and I didn’t remember were there 1 or 2 next to C4 and I wasn’t familiar with the fact how many stickies Fletcher can throw. However I had few seconds time to think what to do before they were completely gone and vanished.)

(_Sniff_) #20

It used to be 4 then they nerfed it to 3. After the 3rd sticky is placed the oldest sticky will vanish if you place another sticky down.