Death Messages "KILLED HIMSELF" - for every death

[stonXer]

Title says it all really :/  Every death is showing up as "killed himself", zed, player, suicide, all same..  Having a dull day and can't get my head round it :)

Anyone else having this problem?

 

Thank you anyone who reads :)

[MGT]

That's a feature of infiSTAR antihack

[Defent]

Check in server_playerDied.sqf at around like 26-35.

	if ((owner _victim) == (owner _killer)) then 
	{
		_message = format["%1 killed himself",_victimName];
		_loc_message = format["PKILL: %1 killed himself", _victimName];
	}
	else
	{
		_message = format["%1 was killed by %2 with weapon %3 from %4m",_victimName, _killerName, _weapon, _distance];
		_loc_message = format["PKILL: %1 was killed by %2 with weapon %3 from %4m", _victimName, _killerName, _weapon, _distance];
	};

You can modify that and see if that changes anything for you.

[stonXer]

Sweet! got sorted, thanks for the replies, was the filters, noticed new ones when I went to the site lol.. long day :/

[edhunter]

And what have i to change to get standardkillmessages ?

[BetterDeadThanZed]

I don't use infistar and I got a message that I killed myself after a bandit killed me.

[stonXer]

The messages have decided to stop working again, not the same message as KILLED HIMSELF, just "was killed". nowt changed on the files since :/

[Anarior]

Same problem on our server, all deaths are being announced as killed self. Started happening after 1051.

[edhunter]

New infistar version out. hope this will solve the problem with killmessages. Parachutes were lying very often on the ground and don`t dissapear. Hope this will be solved , too.

 

Greetz, EdHunter

 

Edit: Working now after infistarupdate

[mgm]

Same problem on our server, all deaths are being announced as killed self. Started happening after 1051.

Same here. I do not use infiSTAR so it's not connected.

This is a fresh installation plus a few additions (DZAI+EMS+Take Clothes) but not a total mod soup (just yet) so I guess it is because of 1.0.5.1 update... I hope someone can find a fix for this as everybody looks suicidal now.

 

Details

(I think) Side chat killmessage reads "<player was killed>".

(I'm sure about this one) The middle of the screen killmessage reads "<player killed himself>".

[stonXer]

Any other idea's from anyone? :/ The messages are soo random, hardly ever showing the right info

[FrenzyFire000]

Has anyone ever found a fix for this?

[fshow]

Been having the same problems.. After checking the RPT log, it appears that at some occations when this happens, the PHIT marks is logged AFTER the PKILL, so at the time the PKILL message arrives, there is no shooter, so it seems like they killed themselves.. Dont know for sure tho, but if someone who knows more about this than me can check things out, it would be great..

[Externized]

Very annoying!

[Guest]

bump?>

[Testrun]

Been having the same problems.. After checking the RPT log, it appears that at some occations when this happens, the PHIT marks is logged AFTER the PKILL, so at the time the PKILL message arrives, there is no shooter, so it seems like they killed themselves.. Dont know for sure tho, but if someone who knows more about this than me can check things out, it would be great..

 

Looking at my log, I found the same thing.

The problem is that hard or sudden hits happen too quickly for the system to keep up. Repeated hits with lower strength weapons get reported fine, but high-powered weapons, head shots and hits to near-dead people seem get marked as suicides.

This got me thinking... and I had a hunch that maybe delaying the script from looking for a killer would give better results, as the killing hit would then always be at least a few seconds before a death is counted.

Updating server_playerDied.sqf with a sleep line seems to have completely ended the fake suicides for me:

_victim = _newObject;
_newObject setVariable ["bodyName", _victimName, true];

sleep 2;

_killer = _victim getVariable["AttackedBy", "nil"];
_killerName = _victim getVariable["AttackedByName", "nil"];

Could be a coincidence and as I've only tested on my server I can't guarantee anything.

Give it a try anyway, it might be a solution!