"not responding" glitch - Please read

[Valletta 834]

So, here's the case: Many of you tankmen know the "not responding" glitch and I am sure you dread it. For those who still haven't experienced it it basically consists of your game freezing, but your own tank - not. This way you are in a sort of "parallel dimension" where all tanks are repeating the last movement their owners made (e.g. if you pressed D before the lag spike then your tank will continuously rotate right). You can also pass through enemy flags or even bonus drops, but the game doesn't react. And your game will stay like this for 2 - 10 minutes. I guess I made it clear why it is hated so much...

This speciphic video shows I guess the glitch at its very worst form with me being kicked out of the game and my shaft scope actually freezing!

 

The aim of this post is to give the testers a better idea of the hazards this glitch hides. I hope this video is helping for work on examination and preventing this problem. Please reply with possible solutions to the glitch or redirect me to somewhere where this is widely discussed. Thank you.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI8buvpL4Qc&feature=plcp

[Valletta 834]

moved to 'General' http://forum.tankionline.com/posts/list/142276.page