Dying during position and respawning during race leads to strange behaviour

ringracers0157

If a player dies and explodes during position and respawns after position ends and the race begins, they will be put in a strange state where they are unable to collide with other players and most of their abilities are unusable. A player in this state cannot e-brake, fast fall, drift, use rings, use items, insta-whip, or call upon their Ring Shooter. Switching characters does not resolve the issue, and dying again does not resolve the issue.

I actually know a bit about what's going on here.

When you FAULT, the game adds the PF_FAULT flag to you.

FAULTing is supposed to put both the respawn and fault flags on you together, then remove them together 2 seconds after the race starts, but respawning like this only removes the former and not the latter - the process is interrupted. As such, the game believes you can't perform any actions because you are still FAULTing forever. Respawning, swapping characters, and even spectating won't fix it - you'd need to use lua to remove the PF_FAULT flag from you.

mentioned in issue #284 (closed)

mentioned in merge request !100