5 replies to this topic

[Bleaker]

Firstly: sorry if this has been posted elsewhere, I searched for it but could not find it.

If you are typing in chat while spectating and the mech you are spectating dies, then the chat window will bug out and disappear while still retaining some of your text. At this point, even though the chat window has gone away, pressing enter will send a random amount of your typed message to all chat, even if your original chat was to team.

Reproduce:
1. Become a spectator.
2. Open up team chat and begin to type a message.
3. The spectated mech must be destroyed/killed.
4. The chat window will disappear.
5. Hit enter.
6. Your message (or all of it up until the mech was destroyed) will be sent to all chat.

The same happens when you are typing a message to all chat and the spectated mech is destroyed, but I used team chat as the example to show how it always posts in all chat regardless of where the message originally started.

[Nirilus]

I'd like to add to your post.

What I see happening is if you have a chat text box open and either you, or the mech that you are spectating dies, then the chat window disappears.

Work around - If you press escape twice, it resets it so that you can open a new chat text box.

[Kargarok]

Haven't noticed this one yet, but I have noticed that when your own mech dies the chat log clears, both team and general. Kind of annoying. Come to think of it, I may have experienced similar to the op when trying to type a quick, "They're overhere" when dieing midway through "over".

[StalaggtIKE]

Yes. This very annoying.

[Nash]

It is a known issue and they are working on it.

[WaKK0]

Very known issues. As long as I've played this game in Closed Beta, this problem has existed. They redraw the full screen when switching to a different spectator, instead of just redrawing what needs to be redrawn. Probably so low on their list of bugs to fix that they haven't put much effort into fixing it.