Fixes
- Fix crashes
Why are there so many crashes
Unreal Engine uses a networking process called replication to sync stuff between players. This doesn't network everything at the same time.
If two players are on a server and player 1's shirt loads in on player 2's game (for example), we want to set it up so the shirt's color is synced to player 2.
The clothes color is on the item itself in player 1's inventory.
If the shirt loads before the inventory loads, there's no color data, so a crash could happen.
This is infrequent & preventable, and we often check and test to ensure this never crashes. Most of the game is secured against this. However if even one part of the code has this bug, the game can crash.
We made the inventory data code a lot faster in a recent hotfix but that had the result of causing all these crashes.
Why did I crash specifically
As of this writing, based on people who crashed and submitted the crash reporter in the last 12 hours:
- 929 of you crashed because a firearm's attachments didn't load properly
- 61 of you crashed because someone shot a firearm that hadn't fully loaded
- 25 of you crashed because someone reloaded a firearm that hadn't fully loaded
- 9 of you crashed because the UI was trying to display the item count for an unloaded item
- 26 of you crashed because you tried to dismantle an unloaded item
- 6 of you crashed because you tried to equip a desynced item to a utility slot
- 72 of you crashed because of a low level Unreal Engine rendering bug, or you ran out of VRAM
- Around 50 of you crashed because of an Unreal Engine low-level bug
The above has been fixed (at least the item related ones).
Thank you for submitting your crashes. Without them we would not have been able to detect or fix these easily.
Will multiplayer crash from this problem after this update
Probably not. We have rolled back how we access inventory items with this hotfix. This may result in some weird desync in multiplayer but at the very least it won't be unplayable anymore.