Open alexiscoutinho opened 1 year ago
Given that Special Infected could attempt to spawn while another is in the death animation (still occupying a player slot), this issue might occur a bit sooner and maybe on other maps if your idle timing is very unlucky.
Description
The
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hard limit of 18, by default, can be overloaded in the Port chapter of The Passing in the mutations Hard Eight, Special Delivery and Flu Season. There are multiple 'paths' to reach the limit, some of them with more serious consequences. The 'catch' here is to also count the extra slots occupied by afk players. In the most loaded scenario, the game would need to give 8 slots for the specials, 2 slots for the Tanks, 4 slots for the l4d2 characters, 3 slots for the l4d1 characters and 3 slots for the afk players. Summing this up, we end with a request of 20 slots!Since the game won't allow 20 slots, some player entities won't be spawned:
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is overloaded, the game will fail to spawn his bot, he will literally be forced into the spectators team and his l4d2 character will be gone! This is probably the worst consequence of this issue.Reproduction steps
I only elaborate the 'worst path' to reach the limit: