Invisible tanks - tanki bug?

[the_enemy 22]

I have discovered what appears to be an intermittent bug in tanki with surprising results - it can effectively make tanks completely invisible. It's happened to me twice today even.

 

The first thing I noticed was that I was getting damaged and eventually killed by someone I couldn't see. I initially assumed it was some sort of new cheat. But it turned out it was happening with multiple tanks. Not every tank, which surprised me, but it appears now that it was happening with tanks that had recently joined.

 

Then I noticed another effect which is certain to be related: pressing TAB for the player list showed that some players' names were sort-of greyed out. And it was those players who were invisible to me. It wasn't just enemy tanks either, but some of the ones on my own team too. The text at the top right with the battle progress (who killed who) did have all the names, including of the invisible ones.

 

I rejoined the battle (just with reload in my browser, so I didn't lose my score), and all the previously-invisible players were now perfectly visible and normal. I should have taken a screen shot of the player page, and if it happens again, I'll try to get that and post it here.

 

So it seems this is some sort of bug in the client. I don't know if it may be triggered if the network is temporarily flaky, but I didn't notice a specific reason for it to start.

 

Just in case it makes a difference, I play on Linux.

 

Can someone make a dev aware of this please?

 

Thanks!

 

J

 

 

[BarneyAndFriend 402]

Its not a bug , it will occur when the server or your internet is slow . All you have to do is refresh :)

[alex_is_the_best 87]

Its not a bug , it will occur when the server or your internet is slow . All you have to do is refresh :)

I agree

[MisterGeneral 692]

Not a bug, just refresh, it will work.