Blackbird-911 wrote:It wouldn't be such a big issue but for what ever reason when you pick up an enemy's weapon, your guy decides to wear his uniform, too.
It happens because, when DEVs were brainstorming about adding Special Forces into the game, the only viable solution to make enemies not notice at first you are working for the other team was that "your guy" would use the enemy's clothes when picking up his weapon.
An April Fool's joke by R-DEV Z-trooper (now a retired PR developer for obvious reasons) consisted of deleting the file that made enemies change their clothes when picking up enemy kits, and renaming the one that made the soldiers use the headgear. He then released that version (aka Project Reality v0.53, which is, evidently, not in
The history of Project Reality thread), tricking all DEVs and players into downloading (despite the fact, while in the Western World it was still the 31st, in Australia it was already April Fool's) and playing it.
The number of teamkills reached unprecedent levels - as a matter of fact, one of the longest-surviving PR Developers was banned on that day (
R-Dev Rhin0).
Z-trooper, on the same day (a few minutes after the release) stated that he had decided to "leave this life [of video games ForeverAlone]" and "party with real people" (refering to non-DEVs)). Some "goodbye" remarks were made.
After about 2 weeks, when R-Dev UK_Force noticed the kit issue, he summoned all DEVs to try to fix the issue. No one had a backup of the game (there was actually only one person with the old version, but he however was not willing to seed it to the team. He angrily broke any allegiances he had with Reality Studios on
this thread, as an answer to a PM he received).
R-MOD Jigsaw, while learning the baby steps of realitymod forums moderating (sources tell me that it took about 2 years and 3 months until R-MOD Jigsaw learned how to use google to find pictures to add to the ironic feeling of lock-thread posts.
This lock was his final requirement before PR-MODs class of 2012 graduation - meanwhile, he does not have the authority to infract forum users, for R-MOD KP strongly believes that he is still not mature enough, as stated in an official note - which was deleted in a conspiracy), was ordered to "forcelly retire" R-Dev Z-trooper. This Dev was not altogether banned because R-DEV Dunehunter feared an outbreak by the PR Player Mass (as a matter of fact, R-Dev CodeRedFox posted an anti-communist reply for a thread, which I cannot find at the moment).
Since then, this "issue", after much sweat from PR-Media team, was declared a bug "due to the high number of different kits".
I am kidding, btw.