Are Spied Restricted From Cloaking And Disguising?

[The_Juggler 0]

I was recently playing on the LotusClan.com Stock Maps Chicago server and I found that as a Spy I was unable to cloak or disguise.

A player - not a LotusClan admin or member just a regular guy - informed me that the administrators had disabled Spies in this way.

Is this true?

Perhaps there was something wrong with the server after the recent update?

I have had no problems on other servers previous or since.

....just realized I wrote "spied"

eh, oh well, sorry bout that.

Edited December 22, 2010 by The_Juggler

[Jonnyp 9]

I noticed this problem last night, as the spy i could not disguise, as the heavy I couldn't use any weapon other than primary, and similar problems with the other classes, hopefully only a temporary bug...

[Mana 3,867]

It's not on purpose. It's possible valve's updater failed to get all the right files.

What servers does this happen on? I will look into it.

regular guy - informed me that the administrators had disabled Spies in this way.

That guy is retarded. I wouldn't randomly disable weapons for no reason.

[speices8472 0]

I am pretty sure its one of the chicago servers....maybe texas too. I always play on payload. NG's cant build, wierd thing where I have sticky laucher and mellee but no grenade laucher, the spy prob....been like that for a day or more(big map update)

Thanks

[Mana 3,867]

I am pretty sure its one of the chicago servers....maybe texas too. I always play on payload. NG's cant build, wierd thing where I have sticky laucher and mellee but no grenade laucher, the spy prob....been like that for a day or more(big map update)

Thanks

This bug should now be fixed on Stock Maps #1 and Payload Stocks chicago.

It does not seem to be an issue on any of our other servers.

[The_Juggler 0]

regular guy - informed me that the administrators had disabled Spies in this way.

That guy is retarded. I wouldn't randomly disable weapons for no reason.

Plenty of servers do, that's why I was asking.

I'm not sure what mental condition causes server admins to decide that whole classes need to be disabled, but it's definitely going around.

I was woried that the LotusClan servers had decided to start doing this too.

I used to have a theory that 1 in 5 publc servers had some major restriction on the Spy class.

That's probably not true, but it seemed that way sometimes, that was shortly after the Sniper/Spy update too.

Thanks for your help, glad to hear this wasn't intentional.

[Wolf J FlyWheel 2]

maybe there using dead ringer and E ternal Reward