Official red / blue nametag bug research thread

[Talus]

http://forum.eagames.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=14498

Please...post in the above thread to help EA get rid of this bug in the upcoming patch.

In a bid to track down and eliminate the red/blue tag bug for the forthcoming patch we need as much information as you can give us as to when and where it is experienced.

If you see the bug, whereby a friendly player will show up with a red name, and hostile players with a blue name, please post in this thread, stating when it occurred, whether it was a one-off or more regularly, and (if possible) what server you were playing on - specifically whether auto-balance is used.

Please also mention anything else you believe may be of use - especially if you'd just switched teams, changed squads and so on.

This information will be collated and sent into the development team.
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EA Games

[claevade]

Re: Official red / blue nametag bug research thread

Yesterday I had my last occurrence, I will do my best to describe what exactly happened.

I was on Mastuur City (64-Player version) as USMC in a M1A2 tank. I was positioned between the Backyard and the Mosque flag. MEC had the Mosque flag, USMC the Backyard. Suddenly I got shot at, I didn't see anything and suddenly a tank (T-90) had killed me. On the mini-map I just saw a friendly T-90 standing by the Mosque.

I respawned and took the tank again. My cousin was on TeamSpeak with me and on top of my tank. He said be careful there is a tank right in front of you, I said no that's friendly. Look I can see him blue on my mini-map and can see his blue tags too. He said watch out for that enemy tank, I don't see it. Then that blue-tagged tank started to shell me and took me down again, this time with me fireing back ofcourse. After respawn for the second time, the tank was still blue to me, but I took him down and just got the points for it.

Hope it helps.

[Talus]

Re: Official red / blue nametag bug research thread

Make sure you post that in the official thread though.

http://forum.eagames.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=14498

[mistakenvt]

Re: Official red / blue nametag bug research thread

Will post here and in offical thread.
Seems someone has found a way that can cause this issue, and it has apparently been replicated.

See -> http://www.totalbf2.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47961

[larryt49]

Re: Official red / blue nametag bug research thread

Will post here and in offical thread.
Seems someone has found a way that can cause this issue, and it has apparently been replicated.

See -> http://www.totalbf2.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47961

in the only server i have played on that this issue has happened is the raging rebels server. i killed a player with a red tag then got tk punished and this happened twice so i switched to another server before i got kicked/banned. this was on a 64 players map strike at kirkland. it has gotten me triggershy and thus killed a lot more which is not doing the team im playing on no good.

[Batausu]

Re: Official red / blue nametag bug research thread

Here is a simple explanation for the red/blue bug:
Every time a player enters the game, the server puts him on the player’s list and assigns him on a team. After that, the server sends this list to every player.
Now let’s say that someone gets a slightly different list than everybody else. On this list, he got a player assigned to the other team. Of course, this player will be an enemy to him, even though the rest of the players see him on his team – that’s the red bug!
If the player is on his team, but everybody else has him on the other, that’s the blue bug!
So the server should recheck that this list of players is the same on every player on the battlefield and this will solve the bug.
What do you think?