BUG: Lastinv is completely disabled (pressing a key bound to it does not change weapon)
Player cannot use lastinv even if changing weapons. However, being killed and spawning fixes lastinv.

To Reproduce: When waiting to spawn again after dying in either classic or combat alt+tab out of the game.
alt+tab back into the game after spawning and lastinv will be disabled.

I checked the database and there is nothing on this. Hope this helps.
Happens to both marines & aliens.


Edit: happens in 3.0 final and servers up to 3.0.3

This has been reported many times, and I had assumed it was people actually experiencing bug 956, but after this report I see something else is going on. Phasing this to the queue for further investigation and entry into Mantis.

I know this is happening, as I've had it happen to me before, but I can't reproduce it just by alt-tabbing while I wait to spawn. Any more information would be greatly appreciated.

It also seems to occur when you alt tab during the countdown in the beginning of a game.

All the above also happens to me.

Jazz do I need to provide config files for you to help you judge whether its a client side issue or whether it would be a server side issue. I had this the other night as well and I just thought it was me.

Now from reading this I realise its not.

confirmed. Occured once for me during combat, alt+tabbing seemed to cause the issue and alt+tabbing several times seemed to fix it again.

I've experienced it about three or four times and no alt+tab was involved. I'm yet to see a pattern.

im pretty sure gestating (upgrades or lifeforms) also fixes it

Last inv is pretty buggy and I wouldn't recommend using it.

That aside, to fix this, drop your lmg and pistol, and pick them up again. Obviously this won't work in combat or on aliens.

Its only buggued in NS, strange?

This bug should have been fixed since NS 3.0. Are we talking about what used to be called the 'weapon redout bug' or is this a specific manifestation of the problem that breaks lastinv alone? If you select slotN does the weapon change?

i have this bug with 3.1.
example:
ALT+TAB and i have the shotgun and i try lastinv and it doesnt switch back to pistol.i push slot2(it switch to pistol) and i push lastinv and it switch to shotgun, i push again lastinv but it doesnt switch back to pistol.and when i die and respawn the bug dissapear.

Does this happen every time you alt-tab? Do you have to remain alt-tabbed for any length of time?

i dont know, i think it happen only in marines, but i will try again and see.

EDIT:

So , the bug is: You press ALT TAB (or CTRL ESC/ALT ESC but it doesnt always happen) when you are die(there must an other(or more) marine/alien dead for the bug to works, dunno why, perhaps the respawn time), you came back in the game when you have respawned, with lastinv you can switch to slot2 from slot1, to slot2 from slot3, and when you take slot4 and slot3 for example or slot3 and slot1, it goes on slot1 with lastinv.

Tested this in alien.

Puzl: I haven't experienced this problem in a long time, however, I have experienced something similar. Sometimes if I alt-tab, changing slots becomes extremely laggy. When I hit my slot key, there's quite a high delay before my gun switches. (Almost as if my weapon switching becomes completely server-side)

bug fixed for 3.2?

This is still not fixed and its annoying, please fix it