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It's apparently possible to crash all players in a server by using an intentionally corrupted player spray. The instant respawn server kept getting hit with this tonight, so I disabled sprays on all servers and reported the problem to Valve. Sprays will remain disabled until the problem is fixed.
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Can this also be resolved if a client has sprays disabled (cl_allowdownloads 0;cl_downloadfilter none;cl_playerspraydisable 1 etc) ?
I have it disabled for years, cos of the very gross stuff sometimes with it. Or some that used pictures with a player on the wall to make it look somewhere was a player.
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Yea, It happened one morning and all but 4 players were kicked off the server (Connection Closing). Found it a bit odd.
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Drunken_F00l Wrote:It's apparently possible to crash all players in a server by using an intentionally corrupted player spray. The instant respawn server kept getting hit with this tonight, so I disabled sprays on all servers and reported the problem to Valve. Sprays will remain disabled until the problem is fixed.
Damnit. Sprays were one of the main reasons I still keep playing TF2.
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DataStorm Wrote:Can this also be resolved if a client has sprays disabled
Yes. This is why everytime it happened, a few people remained in the server.
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Rostov Wrote:Drunken_F00l Wrote:It's apparently possible to crash all players in a server by using an intentionally corrupted player spray. The instant respawn server kept getting hit with this tonight, so I disabled sprays on all servers and reported the problem to Valve. Sprays will remain disabled until the problem is fixed.
Damnit. Sprays were one of the main reasons I still keep playing TF2.
rostov you have 666 posts! now you must never post again!
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I for one wouldn't mind if you just left them off for good.
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Quote:I have a fix for the crash. I don't think we'll be able to get it released until Monday, though...
-Eric
Looks like sprays will stay disabled until Monday then.
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