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Panopticon  [developer] 12 Feb, 2023 @ 11:34pm
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Explanation of what is wrong and where it is happening
Evidence with links to screenshots or debug logs showing what is wrong
Last edited by Panopticon; 10 May, 2023 @ 11:29am
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Panopticon  [developer] 16 Feb, 2023 @ 9:58pm 
mfw no one uses this discussion for their bugs...
Eirkr 17 Feb, 2023 @ 2:13pm 
my tv doesnt work
Panopticon  [developer] 17 Feb, 2023 @ 2:25pm 
Originally posted by erikp1:
my tv doesnt work
Be more specific. Does it not turn on? Are there no channels? Are you not able to access the UI of the TV?
Guiltron 17 Feb, 2023 @ 5:36pm 
Switching from Radio mode to TV Mode on the Super Pocket TV with an attached headphone causes said headphone to get consumed, as in it disappearing completely.
Panopticon  [developer] 17 Feb, 2023 @ 5:45pm 
Originally posted by Guiltron:
Switching from Radio mode to TV Mode on the Super Pocket TV with an attached headphone causes said headphone to get consumed, as in it disappearing completely.
Yeah, I was afraid of that. Currently it only transfers the battery level and nothing else. Will look into removing the headphones, VHS tapes, and other addable things from the switch mode action.
Panopticon  [developer] 18 Feb, 2023 @ 1:41am 
switching from radio to TV back to back will also erase any frequency presets you had on the radio state.
This will happen regardless of what I can do, so I recommend using Radio Frequency Manager to keep track of frequencies independently from devices
Panopticon  [developer] 24 Feb, 2023 @ 1:35am 
Fixed the issue of switching modes deleting VHS tapes & headphones.
404_coffee.exe 13 Mar, 2023 @ 4:55pm 
it was working perfectly well with multiplayer but it says pockttvmodels.txt is missing now
Panopticon  [developer] 13 Mar, 2023 @ 7:57pm 
Originally posted by 404_coffee.exe:
it was working perfectly well with multiplayer but it says pockttvmodels.txt is missing now
Something is definitely wrong with the installation if files are missing. Double check that everyone has the mod installed and is up-to-date (resubscribe if you have to)
Curtiola 27 Mar, 2023 @ 9:49pm 
My bad using the main comment section, I'll move the info here.

The TV in the house has all the channels but the Sony FD-10A Watchman has none, I don't see any errors when loading the mod in the server console. This server is fairly heavily modded but there shouldn't be anything else affecting TVs.

Modlist: https://pastebin.com/SCxvkqTg

Let me know if there's any other info you might want, I @ed you on the PZ discord if you prefer that over this.
Last edited by Curtiola; 27 Mar, 2023 @ 9:50pm
Panopticon  [developer] 27 Mar, 2023 @ 10:09pm 
Originally posted by Risk.Of.Injury:
My bad using the main comment section, I'll move the info here.

The TV in the house has all the channels but the Sony FD-10A Watchman has none, I don't see any errors when loading the mod in the server console. This server is fairly heavily modded but there shouldn't be anything else affecting TVs.

Modlist: https://pastebin.com/SCxvkqTg

Let me know if there's any other info you might want, I @ed you on the PZ discord if you prefer that over this.
Ah, you're running this mod on a server? Yeah, there are all sorts of multiplayer issues for some reason. I can't give any sort of real support because I'm not entirely sure what the problem is. If you want, try running a test server with only this mod enabled and tell me what happens and if anything pops up in the log.
Curtiola 27 Mar, 2023 @ 10:40pm 
Originally posted by Panopticon:
Originally posted by Risk.Of.Injury:
My bad using the main comment section, I'll move the info here.

The TV in the house has all the channels but the Sony FD-10A Watchman has none, I don't see any errors when loading the mod in the server console. This server is fairly heavily modded but there shouldn't be anything else affecting TVs.

Modlist: https://pastebin.com/SCxvkqTg

Let me know if there's any other info you might want, I @ed you on the PZ discord if you prefer that over this.
Ah, you're running this mod on a server? Yeah, there are all sorts of multiplayer issues for some reason. I can't give any sort of real support because I'm not entirely sure what the problem is. If you want, try running a test server with only this mod enabled and tell me what happens and if anything pops up in the log.

Ok no worries, I ran it in a fresh server with no other mods, same thing. Tried with/without the "Real" and "VHS" additions enabled. Played around removing batteries, trying things in different order, no luck. Logs look fine, I'm going to dig through the game files, see if I can find where this channel list gets populated. Not sure I'll find anything though lol no promises.
Panopticon  [developer] 27 Mar, 2023 @ 11:05pm 
Originally posted by Risk.Of.Injury:
Ok no worries, I ran it in a fresh server with no other mods, same thing. Tried with/without the "Real" and "VHS" additions enabled. Played around removing batteries, trying things in different order, no luck. Logs look fine, I'm going to dig through the game files, see if I can find where this channel list gets populated. Not sure I'll find anything though lol no promises.
Attempting it is enough help already, thank you for doing this.
Curtiola 27 Mar, 2023 @ 11:28pm 
Originally posted by Panopticon:
Attempting it is enough help already, thank you for doing this.

No problem! So I didn't really know what I was looking at in the game files, but I found some stuff I can tell is related lol it's getting late, I'll probably look into it again tomorrow.

For now, I found that it's only the first PocketTV2(only when gained from the trait) on a new server that has this issue, when adding it to my inventory with a command or dying and making a new character with the trait, it will get the channels.

Edit: It might just be getting added to the inventory too fast for MP.
Last edited by Curtiola; 28 Mar, 2023 @ 12:00am
Panopticon  [developer] 27 Mar, 2023 @ 11:37pm 
Originally posted by Risk.Of.Injury:
No problem! So I didn't really know what I was looking at in the game files, but I found some stuff I can tell is related lol it's getting late, I'll probably look into it again tomorrow.

For now, I found that it's only the first PocketTV2(maybe only when gained from the trait?) on a new server that has this issue, when adding it to my inventory with a command or dying and making a new character with the trait, it will get the channels.
If it was persistent with the trait, it would make more sense that it's a client-server issue, but having the respawned trait work makes no sense. I could look into doing a workaround for spawning the item for the trait, but I have very few options in terms of inventory item spawning and I'm not sure how to approach it.
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