0003390: Make server transmit correct ammo counts to clients to correct ammo count desyncs

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0003390

Zandronum

[All Projects] Suggestion

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2018-03-02 13:25

2018-03-02 13:27

Reporter

Korshun

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Priority

normal

Severity

major

Reproducibility

always

Status

new

Resolution

open

Platform

Microsoft

Windows

OS Version

XP/Vista/7

Product Version

3.0

Target Version

Fixed in Version

Summary

0003390: Make server transmit correct ammo counts to clients to correct ammo count desyncs

Description

Zandronum has many bugs that can cause weapon desyncs on the client:

'https://zandronum.com/tracker/view.php?id=1041 [^]'
'https://zandronum.com/tracker/view.php?id=842 [^]'
'https://zandronum.com/tracker/view.php?id=3117 [^]'
'https://zandronum.com/tracker/view.php?id=2309 [^]'
'https://zandronum.com/tracker/view.php?id=534 [^]'
'https://zandronum.com/tracker/view.php?id=540 [^]' (even suggests the same solution in the comment)

The biggest issue with them is that all ammo counts are predicted clientside and are never corrected, unless the client picks up ammo or properly shoots desynced weapons in a way to manually correct the ammo count. This causes HUGE confusion to the desynced players.

These desyncs could be made much less fatal if the server were to tell clients periodically or during shooting what their actual ammo count is.

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(0019099) Korshun (reporter) 2018-03-02 13:27	And I forgot to add the latest bug that made me suggest this solution:'https://zandronum.com/tracker/view.php?id=3389 [^]'

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