Unnecessary deaths being given to players

[residal]

Describe the bug

• Switching teams shortly after killing a player, gives you a death.
• Switching teams while in the respawn screen gives you a death.
• Switching teams after respawning gives you a death.

When this happens, it typically shows [Player] died. in chat.

Client version 1.8.9

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the bug:

1. Join a match
2. Switch teams after killing a player, respawning, or while you're in the respawn screen.

Expected behavior The expected behavior would be when you do any of the things listed above, you do not receive an unnecessary death.

Additional context I believe this issue stems from a newly implemented system designed to give deaths to players that log out during combat.

[jorgeberrex]

Switching teams shortly after killing a player, gives you a death.

This is normal behavior. When you enter combat and get hit by the other player, you get a combat cooldown that does not reset after the player has been killed.

Switching teams while in the respawn screen gives you a death.

Could not replicate this since switching teams while in the respawn screen is not possible and using /team force does not kill the player, only drop their items.