Player ghosts..

[LouDnl]

Well like the title says. Since 1.52 it seems like there are much more player ghosts (AI controlled characters). As in an AI stays behind on the place the player logged out. It has the exact same gear as the player and roams the map. If it gets killed it goes to spawn island and starts a killing spree there. If he's in your group he will stay with you. No clue why this is happening. It used to only happen when there was much server side lag. Since 1.52 there is much server side lag, maybe tied in to this?

[AgentRev]

Even thought they have too much pride and/or are too lazy to acknowledge it, player ghosts are 110% Bohemia's fault. Have we reached the point where a ghost cleanup script is needed?

[LouDnl]

Maybe as a temporary solution? It doesn't happen all the time.

Besides that there is a lot of weird stuff happening. Players logging in without clothing (after logging out fine with), players logging in and are stuck. Stuff that hasn't happened in a long long time.

And ofcourse all without any log entries...

[LouDnl]

You can disable the ghost with the following command if you come across one. [cursorTarget, false] call fn_enableSimulationGlobal;

[AgentRev]

lol, I was more thinking about deleteVehicle

[LouDnl]

Yes I know, but what I meant was in the meantime :) otherwise they kill all your players :P

[AgentRev]

Where do they appear? On spawn island, or where the player logged off?

[LouDnl]

Where the player logs off. Have seen them on spawn island on occasion. Probably because a player logged out while being there.

[AgentRev]

Yep, broken ass game.

[LouDnl]

1.52 made a lot of things really broken.

[AgentRev]

Okay, let's try something; add this right here:

if (!isNull _unit) then
{
    _unit addEventHandler ["Respawn", { deleteVehicle (_this select 0) }]; // goddamnit BIS, stahp it
};

This could prevent some of them from happening, but even there I'm not certain, because I think ghosts appear before HandleDisconnect.

[Gigatek1]

This looks like most promising lead yet for a 1.52 lag fix.

[AgentRev]

Also, try changing this line to:

diag_log format ["HandleDisconnect - %1 - alive: %2 - local: %3 - isPlayer: %4 - getPlayerUID: '%5'", [_name, _uid], alive _unit, local _unit, isPlayer _unit, getPlayerUID _unit];

Normally a ghost has an empty UID but isPlayer true, so those params could probably be used to identify and wipe them.

[LouDnl]

I've put it in my Altis mission. Will report back.

[LouDnl]

First disconnecting player (I asked him to disconnect). No ghost there. Will report if we get ghosts.

17:22:22 "onPlayerDisconnected - ["Heer Dieter","76561198058705174"]" 17:22:22 Client: Remote object 5:0 not found 17:22:22 "HandleDisconnect - ["Heer Dieter","76561198058705174"] - alive: true - local: true - isPlayer: false - getPlayerUID: ''"

[AgentRev]

Yeah it's only useful for ghosts, normal disconnects won't show anything special.

[LouDnl]

No ghosts yet.

[LouDnl]

Just heard Exile creates ghosts too.

[LouDnl]

https://github.com/LouDnl/ArmA3_Wasteland.Altis/commit/837e961d276a13bf252947b5fb07ea818c7884dd

[Gigatek1]

Notice any lag or freezing improvement?

[LouDnl]

Well, I've been waiting for the weekend when we get more players on. Haven't heard about any ghosts though.

[LouDnl]

Haven't heard about player ghosts yet. Seems to work.

[Gigatek1]

I implemented this fix in hopes for 1.52 lag improvement. No suck luck. No ghost though. Thank you Agent and LouD. https://github.com/A3Armory/ArmA3_Wasteland.Altis/commit/7e6d8988fb951404487643096244117668b018fd

[AgentRev]

You could probably change the line to:

_unit addEventHandler ["Respawn", { deleteVehicle (_this select 0); diag_log "Ghost deleted" }];

That should tell us if it has any effect or not.

[LouDnl]

Will do. On Perf7, with this ghost protection and removing the complete ability of saving turret ammo for vehicles and static weapons seems to have had effect so far.