Weird stuff going on

[Dλrw!N]

At around 2 PM today, weird things were going on in the 2Fort-server...

It all started out with NaaD (?) banning someone because of wallhack. Later on, I see a guy who was in my team (I tried but I couldn't hurt him). He was shown as an enemy pyro to me! And the weirdest part was that when I looked at him, it said that he was disguised as enemy sniper (First picture). The stats said he was a pyro!:



A moment later, this happened:



After that, an engie is swimming around in thin air!:



The last thing that happened was that Hawkmaster (the first guy) killed an admin with wallhack.

What is going on?

 

[Mostly Harmless]

. did you alt tab? im sure thats a dumb question but weird stuff happens after i alt tab sometimes

 

[The Shape]

All that weird stuff is caused by a packet loss.

 

[Booster37]

Yeah, alt+tab and packet loss cause those things to happen.

At least you didn't encounter an enemy pyro that looked like a friendly engineer. When I saw the engi shooting fire from his shotgun, I was confused, lol.

 

[The Shape]

There's nothing like an invisible medic shooting his needles at you.

 

[bLackout {RD}]

Wow! That's...Cool, but it's kind of weird..

 

[Dλrw!N]

I know everything about alt - tab, but the thing is that I wasn't the only one who saw it! That's what makes it so weird! : S

 

[Ephyu]

It's not just caused by alt-tabbing, as I explained in another post. This occurs quite often when individual players experience a lag spike (which they probably won't even notice) OR if the server has a lag spike. Sometimes EVERYONE sees the same problem, sometimes it's only a few, but it's the same glitch as alt-tabbing.

 

[Monkeybits]

Excellent explanations. I'm glad the Bermuda Triangle wasn't involved. Locking this thread, as we appear to have all the useful information we can get on this magical phenomenon.