"Shades" -- shoot 'em and you crash

[dead_kennedy]

the minute the 1.4 patch came out, we started seeing "shades" in coop. shades are enemy that appear as if they are waiting to spawn or have already spawned and left behind their shadow. they are a black cutout usually, but sometimes they have some texture -- but they are definately "frozen" (not active in the game). you shoot one, you bring the server down.  iow, you crash the server to its desktop. has everyone else who plays modded coops see this? to me, it seems that the shades are more likley to occur in server-sided maps -- but not all. for me, 12weeks & 8 days are big offenders, sbto has some, while the boom and rednest sets have no shades. then again, some full mods have them (nksghosts!), others don't (bs).

have others seen this? why did this start with 1.4? what steps can be taken to correct the issue?

damn shades.

-dk-

[Captain Snorp]

yeah, I was hosting a game with some PC friends and had the same thing happen -- them shooting shades caused me to crash.  I think I was running the black sun arcade mod at the time.


-CS