This bug is weird.

[Freedomfighter]

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Dro doesn't spawn in a 1v1.

http://replay.faforever.com/6446418

[PhilipJFry]

My guess is that Dro used speeds hack for nomads coop and forgot to remove the .scd file from his install folder.
If he did not then he should post his logs.

[CookieNoob]

I talked to him and he said he didnt try the nomads campaign testing stuff, so he didnt download speeds hack.

The problem is that he got

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faction = 5

assigned which is the random faction in the ladder game mode. However, for some reason the game didnt pick a faction and since faction 5 has no command unit defined, the initialization of the sim fails when the armies are created. It could potentially be helpful to get the client logs when the game was launched. The game itself should handle faction 5 correctly though, so it's most likely that something went wrong there too.

To clearify: this has nothing to do with nomads even though the score in the top right might show a nomads icon. This icon is created by the supreme scoreboard mod which interprets the 5th faction as nomads and loads an icon from the modfolder. This is especially well visible in the chat window where Dro had an observer icon. Nomads is not loaded in the ladder mod.

Maybe Dro can do some testing on the test server to reproduce this bug together with a gamecode tester (for example philip). Just pm someone with the game code tester avatar.