ElEl

@Elzozo did you get this sorted or are you still having problems?

This behaviour is due to the bots randomly selecting a set of waypoints to follow. At the start of the map there'll be a notification saying something like "Bots Following Ultimate Steals strategy". The strategies can be found inside the bot waypoint files for baserace, specifically in the baserace.gm file. Here are the relevant lines: // Set the Bot Strategy for the map based on the 10 point systems found at // http://battlefield.planetwolfenstein.gamespy.com/baseraceguide/baseconfigurations.htm // optionally, you can define your own by adding to the table // 1 - Random ( randomly choose from all available ) // 2 - PCR - from PatheticCockroach @ omni-bot.de forum // 3 - The Best Attack is the Best Defense // 4 - Ultimate Steals // 5 - the best base configuration ever // 6 - rapid invasions // 7 - Rocket Insanity! // 8 - defense strategy // 9 - Away From Home Configuration AlliedBotStrategy = 1, AxisBotStrategy = 1, BaseStrats = { // valid keywords // armory // assault // engineering // gatebunker // forwardwall // leftwall // ops // med // rightwall // spawn // do not use { // reserved }, // do not use - list of keywords { // reserved }, // 2 - PCR - from PatheticCockroach { Name = "PCR", spawn = 14, // first do all 4 spawn engineering = 10, // second do these 4 med = 6, // med and assault next assault = 6, armory = 4, //after med and assault at lvl 2, also work on armory & ops ops = 4, }, // 3 - The Best Attack is the Best Defense { Name = "The Best Attack is the Best Defense", spawn = 4, med = 2, armory = 2, ops = 2, }, // 4 - Ultimate Steals { Name = "Ultimate Steals", med = 4, engineering = 4, spawn = 2, }, // 5 - the best base configuration ever { Name = "the best base configuration ever ", engineering = 4, spawn = 4, med = 2, }, // 6 - rapid invasions { Name = "rapid invasions", engineering = 4, spawn = 2, ops = 4, }, // 7 - Rocket Insanity! { Name = "Rocket Insanity!", armory = 4, med = 2, assault = 2, gatebunker = 2, }, // 8 - defense strategy { Name = "defense strategy", engineering = 2, spawn = 2, rightwall = 2, forwardwall = 2, leftwall = 2, }, // 9 - Away From Home Configuration { Name = "Away From Home Configuration", engineering = 4, spawn = 2, assault = 2, gatebunker = 2, }, }, Here's a working link to the website mentioned in the above text. It gives explanations for each strategy. The strategies can only be changed server-side via editing the baserace.gm file and changing these lines: AlliedBotStrategy = 1, AxisBotStrategy = 1, to the respective strategy. The 1 option just randomly selects. If you feel it causes a big unbalance, I'd make a suggestion post for DD or whoever runs maps for Jay1 to change these values and see if other people agree.

Try install ETLegacy and use that, it wouldn't surprise me if that fixes the issue entirely. You'll also get better FPS with it straight away without having to tinker with config settings. Alternatively, when you next join the server and you see the same issue, immediately open console and type "/condump console" then hit enter. When ET finds a texture error, it'll tell you via console when you load into the game. It'll say something like "WARNING: Couldn't find image for xyz" and look like this in console: Doing '/condump console' will save the text to your Jaymod directory with the name 'console'. Upload that file here or copy onto pastebin.com or scan through it yourself with notepad and copy the lines that say "WARNING" so we can see why the textures aren't being drawn.

Did changing r_fastsky to 1 help? Maybe the texture for the sky is being overwritten by another pk3 file, I think you see this kind of visual glitch when a texture isn't being loaded so it's possibly being overwritten by an 'empty' texture with the same name. I'd try run the pk3 cleaner here: If you don't want to download a third party tool, you can also manually remove all pk3 files other than pak0, pak1, pak2 and mp_bin.pk3 in the etmain folder of your ET directory by deleting or moving the files elsewhere. If this doesn't work, I'd go on to remove pk3 files in the Jaymod folder as it looks like you're playing on Jay1 in the screenshot - maybe it's from some kind of skin pack? If it were me though, I'd move pk3 files out in batches and keep testing until I found the bad file just out of curiosity 😛 Worst case scenario, try a clean installation of ET. If the issue still exists let us know.

I agree completely, please make this man staff, I trust that he knows what's good Jay2 ❤️ I've played a few games on the server recently while my injury heals and the bot amount seems a bit high to me. I've asked a few people their thoughts as well, including a new admin I haven't seen before, and they thought it was too high as well.

Are you still not getting above 76 fps on ETLegacy? As others have said, your hardware should be more than capable of doing so. Could someone share their config and then you test it out? Are your graphics drivers up to date? Do you still have the same fps on a less populated server? Have you tried a completely fresh install of ETLegacy? Have you tried a completely fresh install of ET 2.60b with r_primitives 2? You said in the original post that you only saw these fps issues lately, did you make any hardware or driver changes around the time it started happening? What version of ETLegacy are you using? After 2.77 they removed the r_primitives setting and locked it to 2 so changing the setting in console doesn't actually do anything. If you're not using the latest version, try updating ETLegacy. When playing on 2.60b, r_primitives should be set to 2. Never set it to 1, it's a less efficient drawing method and you'll get less fps.

Ayy Vind's back, long time no see bud. I managed to recreate the issue when I was testing with DD and Shana, don't remember when that was but it was a while ago, like mid 2021 - will have to look through my demos or Disco chat logs to find when. From what I remember, the issue was caused by the bots being added to the server shortly before warmup ends. Usually it happens when someone disconnects just before the end of warmup because the bots auto balance teams. For example, it's 9 Allies vs 10 Axis - if an Allied player leaves the server, a bot would join Allies, if this happens at the right moment, the bot will be stuck on CONNECTING after the warmup. I don't know how long the issue lasts after it happens, just how we managed to make it happen. Mehmet's first screenshot shows 5 connecting bots on Allies and 2 connecting bots on Axis, the small file size and mission timer seems to suggest warmup just ended. I would guess 7 people left (or crashed given the size of the map) during the time leading up to the end of the warmup. I think the reason this issue is so common is cause people, including myself, tend to stick around just for warmup to chat or cool down after playing a few maps and then leave before the match starts. On larger servers there's a short window after the countdown timer reaches 0 and just before the match starts where the server lags. This gives a good time to hit escape or /quit which seems to cause the issue. Also, the game's pretty janky at times so crashes can happen client side when the server loads a bunch of stuff just before match starts. A temporary fix might be to have a custom !resetbots command for levels 16+ that would just do /bot maxbots 0, wait a few seconds for the bots to be removed, then /bot maxbots X to restore the bots back to the server's normal amount - that being X. Maybe there's already an available command like that within omni-bot, I dunno but I don't remember where I installed my local test server so don't think it's me worth checking - I've just got too many ET installations to look through 😅 Mehmet's screenshots show just how bad it can get at times when people are being forced to join a team with more players (13v6!!!), if there's no admins around then things usually don't tend to get fixed for a while. If you want I can look through my demos and share them so people can copy the timing and setup of when it was recreated. Though I think all I did was type /reconnect when there was less than 2 seconds left of warmup and I was on a team - when I loaded back in, there was a bot stuck on CONNECTING. If I remember correctly, Shana was on Axis and someone else was on Allies. I'm pretty busy these days, I've barely played ET or been around on Discord, I'd help out if I could I just don't have time to dedicate to it.

Until something gets changed I'd recommend people set a bind like so: bind KEY "team s" Every time you get hit by a poison knife hit the key. It'll piss off the poison knife spammers and they might start learning not to use them. Make another couple binds to join Axis or Allies and hit them back to back so it's basically just like SKing, they don't get the kill either iirc. Don't think it's against any rules to do any of this. It's just like SKing when you see a panzer coming at you except you need binds to do it cause /kill is disabled for some stupid reason when poisoned. There are better scripts to do it as well but I would just bind 3 keys, 1 for going spec, 2 for going Allies/Axis with your most used class. Maybe don't do it all the time, just when the spammers are about. It'll feel good denying them their kills 🤣 Alternatively, Jay2 doesn't have poison knives >:P

Ignoring the cringe "I can kill you while your using adrenaline" shit.. I agree with CapTn. He's has more than enough knowledge on the server to tell you we do need some form of high level leader who's at least active on the server. When Rendel was active, we had an increase in people. Right now there is no one above 16. Level 16 is the highest, Gameplan and CapTn. They are basically leaders at this point and they are the soul of the server. But what can you do when you're basically the highest level admin that cares about the server? It's the same reason I got pissed off cause in the end everything just falls on whoever has the highest admin level. Look at all those questions you asked and ask yourself why is that only CapTn's responsibility? I think some more high level admins would be good just to show people that F|A care about the server if nothing else. In fact not just leaders, someone mentioned NQ1 but look just how many F|A members there are to each player compared to Jay2. I don't understand what you mean by this and that's the reason I made this post, could you explain? I also think that if we do the no dren test, we'll get a little spike in activity for a short time and people will get bored and go back to their spam fest on Jay1. But yea feel free to try it, I don't use it anymore anyway though I'd imagine quite a few of the regulars on the server who use dren but don't come on the forums wouldn't be happy. It just seems daft to me that rather than lower the Jay1 player count back to what it was, Jay2 needs the settings changed. All I see right now is people singling out Delord and telling him no you can't play ET the way you want and have fun and now everyone hopping on CapTn like it's his responsibility to fix the server. That's pretty upsetting.

Open console and type /callvote map railgun If there's too many PK3s in the server then some maps get cut from the list in the callvote menu.