Solved Game Skipping to Game Over Screen After Losing One Life

[maxman]

Recently, I started to test a new mod with the recent version of the OpenBOR build 6391, with its compile date on April 8 2020. When I lose a last life, even though the default credit is 3 or 5, without pressing a start button to select character, it skips to the Game Over screen. How in the world does this happen to it? I already set credits to 5 in levels.txt, but it seems too quick to skip it.

EDIT: Am I using the wrong version?

 

[pudu]

Hi, you can add this script timetick.c, it can solve your problem

void main()
{//Script to avoid engine "noshare" BUG that don't give enough time to press start button and continue the game if the all players are dead
 //This bug happens only if "noshare" command is not present in "levels.txt". If it is present with flag 1, this bug not happens and the engine give you 10 seconds

  if(openborvariant("count_players") > 0){ //THERE'S SOME PLAYERS ACTIVE
    setglobalvar("current_time", openborvariant("game_time")); //SAVE THE CURRENT TIME CONSTANTLY
  }
  else //THERE'S NO PLAYERS ACTIVE
  {
    changeopenborvariant("game_time", getglobalvar("current_time")); //FREEZE THE GAME TIMER USING THE PREVIOULSY SAVED TIME
 }
}

Script source @Kratus

 

[O Ilusionista]

@maxman its a known issue. @DCurrent made a patch for it and this is already fixed on the unrelased version

Continue Bug Patch

The latest official OpenBOR version (v6391) has a well known bug in the continue timer. If all onscreen players are defeated and credit sharing is enabled, the timer instantly drops to 0, causing a game over before players may continue. This bug...

www.chronocrash.com

 

[maxman]

Thank you very much, guys!

@pudu: That one in timetick.c effortlessly works wonders!

@O Ilusionista: Thank you for the patch! I forgot about it and I have it. I just had to copy the debug script from that example and put it in my update.c file.

Problem solved.