Kablooza

Since I decided to have a crack at running a TF2 server, I’ve noticed a lot of custom maps crashing. It’s been a few months now and just yesterday I found the solution.

THE PROBLEM: When a player dies they are sent to the respawn screen. Given the proper configuration, the player will be viewing another player while waiting to respawn. But what happens when all players are waiting to respawn? The game forces the respawning players to view specific parts of a map called an observe point, which is essentially a static viewpoint. However, if a map is not designed with one, it will cause the server to crash.

THE SOLUTION: The obvious solution is to yell at the map creator to fix it but that’s not very practical as you’d have to have to do that for every map you have this problem with. You could even yell at Valve but this problem has been in the game since forever from what I know. Another solution is the one I decided to take. I discovered a SourceMod plugin that solves the problem nicely. Add Observer Point by strontiumdog adds a random observe point to the map if the said map is missing it.

It feels good to have that finally out of the way. I’ve been taking down custom maps, some of which I enjoyed, because of this bug so I’m pleased I no longer have to do this.

The only other major problem I have with TF2 is the NVIDIA crashing.

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No entries in almost 3 months..

I uninstalled Team Fortress 2 a little over a week ago. Need to be serious now.

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I’m not the type of guy who enjoys first person shooters but on the 31st/1st of December/January, TF2 was discounted to $5 which was an offer I couldn’t resist. I’ve been playing the game since then and I can say that even though I suck pathetically at the game, I’m actually quite enjoying it. My ISP is crap though so it requires it to be the sole program reliant on the internet connection other my latency goes through the roof. I’m switching over to a new ISP soon though.

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