How to crash a map! From bad ideas to short-sightedness

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Fracture
797 Posts
#105639
Posted Apr 26, 2014
Okay so I decided that this would be both informative and entertaining to post things you have done that have resulted in a game crash, or even a total system abort where the game doesn't even start. Here are some of mine;

-outputting a floor button to push itself inwards, resulting in an infinite output overload.
-accidentally parenting two objects to each other as being both parents, breaking any notion of hierarchy.
-making cubes spawn where a previous has fizzled, thereby making infinite cubes fizzle and overloading the map.
-creating a scene where a cube is both killed and fizzled simultaneously, confusing the system on what to do.
-flooding a water area with physboxes and overloading both the friction interaction and splash particles.

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Arachnaphob
412 Posts
#105642
Posted Apr 26, 2014
Replied 49 minutes later
Parenting a func_tracktrain to itself and almost deleting half your map because you can't figure out what's wrong. (True story)
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srs bsnss
552 Posts
#105643
Posted Apr 26, 2014
Replied 56 minutes later
Once, I forgot to set "Use Random Time" to 'Yes' on a logic timer. The result was a cube being spawned every 0.1 seconds, continuously, until the game crashed. I've caused infinite cube spawns a few times with droppers as well.
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Gemarakup
1,183 Posts
#105677
Posted Apr 27, 2014
Replied 1 day later
Buildcubemaps when you're not using a dlc directory.
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reepblue
894 Posts
#105680
Posted Apr 27, 2014
Replied 3 hours later

I crashed maps/games by:

  • Bad programming.
  • In Portal 1, killing a soundscape.
  • Just playing Portal 2 for me.
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FelixGriffin
2,680 Posts
#105682
Posted Apr 27, 2014
Replied 3 minutes later
Using the "dark" skin on the Chell model. I have no idea what it's for, and I was using it for the Shadows of Time until I realized it was the reason the game kept crashing every few minutes.
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CamBen
973 Posts
#105771
Posted May 01, 2014
Replied 3 days later
Onstarttouch
point_servercommand
command
crash
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Fracture
797 Posts
#105779
Posted May 01, 2014
Replied 16 hours later
there is seriously a crash command!? Who goes and makes such a thing?!

okay, here's one; Using improper textures/sprites for dynamic entities such as an env_laser with a non-sprite material

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tile
380 Posts
#106221
Posted May 21, 2014
Replied 20 days later
having a logic_relay send the cancelpending input to itself.
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TeamSpen210
608 Posts
#106228
Posted May 22, 2014
Replied 2 hours later
I managed to crash VBSP once. Don't use two colons in the "instance:obj;input" instance inputs. It took a while to find that particular error.
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Arachnaphob
412 Posts
#106230
Posted May 22, 2014
Replied 37 minutes later
(Back in the n00b days)
Trying to create a gelocity like map without knowing that the info_paint_sprayer's radius can change.
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Gemarakup
1,183 Posts
#106241
Posted May 22, 2014
Replied 13 hours later
Using a model changer script wiithout a template.
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62 Posts
#106289
Posted May 24, 2014
Replied 1 day later
Using the carve option on two 32-side cylinders, thinner than 16*16
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Fracture
797 Posts
#106299
Posted May 24, 2014
Replied 6 hours later
trying to make a sphere hollow with a maximum number of sides
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Gemarakup
1,183 Posts
#106310
Posted May 25, 2014
Replied 11 hours later
"Concave".
Also, most important. Area portal leaks.
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Chilius03
96 Posts
#106315
Posted May 25, 2014
Replied 9 hours later
Pressing R with no portalgun.
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FelixGriffin
2,680 Posts
#106326
Posted May 25, 2014
Replied 4 hours later

Chilius03 wrote:
Pressing R with no portalgun.

To what command do you have R bound?

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Chilius03
96 Posts
#106361
Posted May 27, 2014
Replied 1 day later
Impulse 200, I know the cause is that there's no way I can make a portalgun dissapear.
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Lpfreaky90
2,842 Posts
#106372
Posted May 28, 2014
Replied 1 day later
Corrupt displacements!
Spent a few hours with LoneWolf playing murder mystery, trying to figure out what was randomly crashing our level :sad:
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CamBen
973 Posts
#106373
Posted May 28, 2014
Replied 20 minutes later

Lpfreaky90 wrote:
Corrupt displacements!
Spent a few hours with LoneWolf playing murder mystery, trying to figure out what was randomly crashing our level :sad:

Oh yes, and non-quadrilateral displacements.

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