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      Rama
      last edited by

      Great work, Jip! I'll have to add an over-powered unit named after you, that levels peoples' bases. Then they can yell at you about it!

      I haven't had much time for hosting, so don't know when I'll be able to try. Will let other players know when I see them. Do the vanilla units not use "SetBallisticAcceleration"? I've only seen the freeze with playthroughs with unit packs.

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        LightWire
        last edited by LightWire

        Thanks for the research and work put in.

        Been testing with FAF Develop solo with M28AI. Found 1 situation where no Game freeze, and 2 with game freeze.

        All game have the exact same settings and set up.

        Freeze (2 games) - Clues: happens at the end, maybe due to something spawning in near the end game.. Maybe when dooms are spawning. Always happens where there seem to be a lot of units on the map, seems sudden and unexpected, but there doesn't seem to be anything in particular that is noticeably different about the game around the time it occurs.
        https://replay.faforever.com/23107974
        https://replay.faforever.com/23107054

        Fully Completed Game, No Freeze happened -
        https://replay.faforever.com/23107205

        Main Mods:
        AI Wave Survival
        M28AI
        Total Mayhem Light
        BlackOps units and Commanders

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          LightWire
          last edited by LightWire

          Posting a replay where the game freezes at a point when there isn't a lot going on on the map.Thought this might make it easier to spot something. The point of the freeze happens when there's basically no air, only after Boss Doom Colossus: Stand Tall death and it starts spawning units.

          1 Human Aeon, 2 Ally Aeon (M28AI), 1 AI Wave Survival

          https://replay.faforever.com/23108256

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            LightWire
            last edited by

            Replay of a game where the Freeze restarted after 1 player dropped.

            AI wave survival. 2 human players. Game froze near the end of the game. Purple player disconnected and then the game continued.

            https://replay.faforever.com/23136485

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              LightWire
              last edited by

              Been testing, and it seems that the freeze is happening a lot less frequently. Many games are operating unexpectedly

              This game is a recent one that froze. I think I enabled the enhanced FAF logger recently based on the responses from another thread, but not sure if that helps.

              https://replay.faforever.com/23141485

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                LightWire
                last edited by

                Posting another example, where the game restarts after a freeze, and some people leave the game.

                https://replay.faforever.com/23162621

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                  Rama
                  last edited by

                  Here is a replay using Blackops and Total Mayhem, that freezes at 45 mins in.

                  https://replay.faforever.com/23191245

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                    LightWire
                    last edited by

                    The last error in a game log. Not sure if this is a clue. Game froze right after a Rift landed.

                    \defaultunits.lua(100): access to nonexistent global variable "ACUUnit"
                    stack traceback:
                    [C]: in function `error'

                    https://replay.faforever.com/23198584

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                      Rama
                      last edited by

                      So only had seen the infinite loop bug in playbacks with lots of unit packs, but just occurred in a game we were playing with only a few mods. Mod list for the game is:

                      2x Resources,Storage,BuildRate,BuildRange
                      ACU Boost 1.5x
                      AI Wave Survival
                      25% Air Crash Damage
                      All Faction Quantum Gate

                      https://replay.faforever.com/23203884

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                        Rama
                        last edited by Rama

                        @Jip

                        Do you know if this issue has occurred in other games not using the AI Wave Survival mod, or is the issue exclusive AI Wave Survival mod game?

                        Around the same time as the last FAF Patch, I increased the use of the following code that attaches orbs to a unit's bones. Now all units have a chance at having orbs attached to increase their DPS, depending on player strength. I've also noticed the freeze is most likely to occur during the endgame phase of the game, when many bosses are spawning and they will all have multiple orbs attached.

                        Here is the code for attaching orbs to units. Note that the script first checks to make sure units have more than 1 bone before calling the function to attach the orbs.
                        For Land Units:

                        AttachedLandUnitSpawn = function(self, selfId, attachedUnitId, selfBoneId)
                            local platOrient = self:GetOrientation()
                            local location = self:GetPosition()
                            local StellarCore = CreateUnit(attachedUnitId, self:GetArmy(), location[1], location[2], location[3], platOrient[1], platOrient[2], platOrient[3], platOrient[4], 'Land')
                            WaitTicks(2)
                            StellarCore:AttachTo(self, selfBoneId)
                            StellarCore:SetCreator(self)
                            self.Trash:Add(StellarCore)
                        end
                        

                        For Air Units:

                        AttachedAirUnitSpawn = function(self, selfId, attachedUnitId, selfBoneId)
                            local platOrient = self:GetOrientation()
                            local location = self:GetPosition()
                            local StellarCore = CreateUnit(attachedUnitId, self:GetArmy(), location[1], location[2], location[3], platOrient[1], platOrient[2], platOrient[3], platOrient[4], 'Air')
                            WaitTicks(2)
                            StellarCore:AttachTo(self, selfBoneId)
                            StellarCore:SetCreator(self)
                            self.Trash:Add(StellarCore)
                        end
                        

                        For Navy Units:

                        AttachedNavyUnitSpawn = function(self, selfId, attachedUnitId, selfBoneId)
                            local platOrient = self:GetOrientation()
                            local location = self:GetPosition()
                            local StellarCore = CreateUnit(attachedUnitId, self:GetArmy(), location[1], location[2], location[3], platOrient[1], platOrient[2], platOrient[3], platOrient[4], 'Naval')
                            WaitTicks(2)
                            StellarCore:AttachTo(self, selfBoneId)
                            StellarCore:SetCreator(self)
                            self.Trash:Add(StellarCore)
                        end
                        
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