Can't take the flag in CTF with high ping

[Американский Шпион]

While playing CTF games I noticed, that I can walk through the flag several times before it's finally picked up. this is not the case for weapons, ammo etc.the ping was around 150-160

[Frank Sapone]

So basically, what you're saying is the bounding box for the flag needs adjusting?

[Американский Шпион]

If this will solve the problem with lag, then quite possibly yes.

[Purkkaviritys]

I noticed this behaviour too but didn't think too much about it because I don't think it's a bug. If I stopped moving and stood at the place where the flag was standing I could pick it up within 1-3 seconds. This was also true to all items during the game. I don't think it's a bug as much as it's just the latency causing this.

If I could add something that might be a bug is that sometimes the flag would reset to wrong place and it'd be impossible to get it to normal zero position after that. Of course unless opposing team carried it longer distance away and then it was then returned back to the base either by our team or if it was captured.

I just remembered one more detail... This became more common the longer the game progressed and time went on.

[Frank Sapone]

I'm going to look into the CTF goofed respawn origins. Does the respawn origin problem only happen if the flag was sitting around for awhile and decides to bring itself back?

[Teflon1]

I did some testing regarding the misplaced flag issue on Frank's CTF server.

All of this was done in E2CTF1 and as a US-based player:

*Red flag is captured.

*Red flag is captured after 4 minutes of not being captured.

*Red flag is captured 6 times.

*Red flag is dropped in the red flag room and allowed to bring itself back, both while I was watching the flag and while I wasn't.

*Red flag is dropped in the courtyard and allowed to bring itself back, without me watching in the courtyard.

*Red flag is dropped in the blue flag room and allowed to bring itself back, both with me watching the red flag return in the red flag room and without me watching it at all.

None of these caused a problem.

EDIT: Some clarification.

[Frank Sapone]

Bbox size for flag was totally wrong. Will be in next build. Haven't seen the CTF being placed offset for quite sometime... so if it happens again open a new ticket.