Bot death animation not playing

[anzz1]

When bots die, most of time their death animation doesn't play properly but are stuck somewhere in the first frames, so the bodies stay standing up

Version is the current latest release, v0.911, on Linux

[josemam]

Please ignore this comment if this is a recently introduced issue, but I believe (and cannot test right now) it is not.

In old versions of Foxbot (the earliest releases in this repo and the previous one) in Windows pre-Steam dedicated servers this is very subtle by default, being more prominent when the Metamod plugin WinHL-Booster is also used. (The addon has the functionality of forcing the server to update more often, as otherwise everyone experiences some extra latency simply because the server sleeps too much between steps as a consequence of a Windows issue. Hence, with the addon the server sleeps work as in Linux, so it makes sense that the issue is replicated in Windows when using the other plugn)

[anzz1]

Yes I suspect it is tied to server frame rate, the bot waiting a set amount of ticks/frames before stopping the death animation (and respawning?), when the correct way would be to check that the animation has finished playing or wait a set amount of time, instead of frames. So such thing could have gone unnoticed in old computers and servers running on low framerates

[anzz1]

Oh I forgot to comment indeed it is a framerate-tied issue, and only happens if you run your server at 1000FPS, (set fps_max 10000, sys_ticrate 10000, (re)hlds will still always Sleep(1) at the very least between frames so FPS will be capped at 1000). Setting them to 100 will make the death animation play again, but obviously this is not optimal as bot behaviour should not be tied to the server framerate.