the KGB infiltrated my OTC folder. » Forum Post by Cubit32

With how much you play I'm honestly suprised you've never run into this bug before. It happens with any language, and was reported back in beta 4 I believe. You can speak commie though right?

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I just had this bug with gameslayer on b6:

http://youtu.be/3z-Ppy2dlg8

the game pauses while calculating my bond rating.

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This is a known issue that should be resolved in the new interface.

What is happening is that strings are being built on the server and are being sent over the network to the other players. In this case, the server was playing in Russian and building the strings in Russian and sending you the game messages in Russian. These strings should not be constructed on the server and instead should be constructed on the client for multiple reasons.

This issue will take some time to work out. Sorry about this.

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Thanks for letting us know Deftmunky! Glad you're working on it!

edit: any idea about what's causing the game pausing bug I just posted?

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No idea about the game pausing bug. I haven't seen it on our end. I will let Soren know about it because I haven't modified that stuff in a while.

-Scott-

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I've just played this game which I didn't manage to record on video at the time but of which I did save the replay file. Played with blues via QM on today's next_version of beta 6.

replay file:
http://www.filedropper.com/replay_2

A short video recording of the replay in which I try to point out the bug:
http://youtu.be/1Q3mM53f1fU

In short, time seemed to flow half as fast as it normally does and the building animation of buildings appeared glitchy from both player's perspectives too, as the moving model of a building wouldn't fully land immediately as it would appear that it should.

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I just played this game vs blues. (Besides being in slowmotion) I power surge blue's water pumps but only 1 of the pumps is affected even though they are adjacent.
http://youtu.be/XC85Mi8ZDUA the power surge is at 18:46

I've played with gameslayer and blues today and the games with gameslayer were normal speed and with blues were slow. I and gameslayer are in west europe, and blues is in the USA. The sample size is a little low, but I believe the cause of the bug may may be related to the distance between us.

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I fired up a few games in single player, all of them in slow motion as well. Had to switch to blazing speed.

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Soren_Johnson

Join Date 04/2008

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The first example was probably a connectivity issue between you two, and the game decided to award victory to Cubit.

The second example is very strange... we will take a look.

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I'm quite certain that the first example wasn't connectivity issues because gameslayer and I could still chat with each other even after the game paused and his final chat message to me indicated that he simply left at which point the game defaulted and granted me the win.

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Hello InSyncOTC. Would you mind playing the "next" build (Beta Code: MohicanSun2015) and if the half-speed issue persists, could you attach your Documents/My Games/Offworld/ folder? Thanks!

Jason Winokur

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Sorry, didn't find the built-in attach option. Here's the link to archived Offworld folder, including the replay of the game I just finished on blazing speed. The replay speed is fine, but while I was playing it was twice as slow. In fact, replay's speed is completely unaffected by game speed. You can pause in-game but and the replay will keep going.

http://www.filedropper.com/offworld-beta6-slowmotion

P.S. My computer is not strong enough to record, but Cubit posted another game with Blues where they played on snail pace again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P0H0sf86ow

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Thanks InSyncOTC! Those logs are helping me zero in on a fix. My current hunch is that the slow-down is caused by a bug in our update calculation which is amplified by certain framerates. I'll PM you to get you on our internal testing build.

Jason Winokur

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Quoting Cubit32,

reply 6

I've played with gameslayer and blues today and the games with gameslayer were normal speed and with blues were slow. I and gameslayer are in west europe, and blues is in the USA. The sample size is a little low, but I believe the cause of the bug may may be related to the distance between us.

I played Blues a couple times 1 on 1 in Beta 6 tonight both in quick match and just a 1v1 multiplayer game. Both times the game speed was very slow for some reason just like Cubit's experience. Both Blues and I are in the US. We had to quit both matches because everything was moving at what seemed like a glacial speed. We went back into beta 5 to play a quick match and everything was ok again.

Hope this helps!

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Weirdly enough, when we played yesterday, the speed was normal while in SP I am only getting the snail speed.

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We played several games in multiplayer that seemed like they were the normal speed. For some reason when it was 1v1 or quickmatch it slowed to a crawl.

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So in FFA with Blues everything was fine? I played a bunch of QM yesterday and manually set 1v1 and 1 FFA - all normal. So far I've been getting the bug only in SP. So strange...

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The_Gear

Join Date 10/2013

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I've reported these issues to the developers.

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I think I have narrowed in on the bug. It seems to be directly connected to the framerate of the host. I should have a fix ready for testing shortly. Thank you all for helping narrow the bug down!

Jason Winokur

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We have pushed a new "next" build with a potential fix. Please try the new build and report if the game speed works correctly or not. Thanks!

Jason Winokur

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Guess I'll answer here as well. Haven't been experiencing any slowness since last update. Maybe Blues can try and host a game in MP, where he had this problem and see if it's gone.

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