Bug: Scream Fortress 2014 - Carnival of Carnage: once the tickets are successfully taken to the top of the Strong Man game, Marasmus will send all players into a team decided bumperkart death match. But also on this map Marasmus will periodically cast one of three spells over all players, one of which is underwater mode. Well it's actually under Jarate, but it's technically still called underwater mode. The system for Marasmus' spells runs independently of the bumperkart system and they sometimes overlap. But the spells are not supposed to affect the bumperkarts. However, if Marasmus happens to be casting a random spell, and that random spell is underwater mode, and is cast at the exact moment everybody is sent to the bumperkart track, a glitch happens where the bumperkart track is underwater mode as well. This causes zero gravity which makes dying almost impossible, and if the bumperkart game happens to be Falling Platforms, then the match will carry on indefinitely until a full team either leaves the server or swims down to the teeth for suicide. It also makes Duck Collection and Bumpercar Soccer extremely difficult to play. In bumperkart games, any Marasmus spells that happen to be cast as the bumperkart match starts (Big Heads, Melee Only, or Underwater) will linger in bumperkart mode without a time limit. Big head does not really effect the bumperkart games, and melee only has no effect at all, but underwater is a total game breaking game changer.

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Bug: For the longest time, since they came out with taunting in the game, there has been a glitch where you can move while taunting. A player runs at a ledge and taunts right before they reach the edge. From the player's perspective, the view would switch to third person as it usually does while taunting, but only for a split second before snapping back to first person as the player goes over the edge and they can move unrestricted. And any dialog the character would say while taunting would be cut off. But to any other players watching, it would appear the player's model would continue the taunting animation, but drop off the ledge and be sliding around while taunting. This lead to an exploit as well involving the High Five Taunt that could be held indefinitely, and would throw off the player model's hit box and making it difficult to hit, especially troublesome for snipers. (This glitch has been fixed now as of the update of May 19th, 2014, preparing for the new taunts to be added to prevent exploiting).

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Bug: Sometimes when a player wearing an Unusual hat leaves the server, the effect of the Unusual will stay hovering in the air where they last were and will stay there until the server resets. It will only be visible to some players though. For example, a player has on an Unusual hat with the Orbiting Planets effect. They leave the server and another player goes to the spot where they last were and can see just random miniature planets circling around in a spot levitating above the ground at about eye level.

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Bug: Spy: Lag spikes can cause the Spy to automatically undisguise.

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Bug: Spy: Strange Part Fires Survived will still count up a number when any attack triggers a spy's dead ringer fake death, even if the attack was not fire based.

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Bug: Spy: Occasionally, the Spy’s left hand animation will move faster than it is supposed to while the player is in motion. This can be fixed by recording a demo and quickly stopping it.

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Bug: Spy: If disguised as Sniper, sometimes the Spy will show to have the quiver and arrows on his back even if he is not currently holding the Huntsman or even if the player he is disguised as does not have the Huntsman equipped.

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Bug: Spy: A very rare glitch, but happens is that a disguised Spy will appear with a decapitated character model.

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Bug: Spy: If leaving the current disguise in third person view, the hat and or misc items of the player that Spy is disguised as will appear on the Spy for a brief moment.

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Bug: Spy: Sometimes, a Spy disguised as a Scout that is holding the Scattergun will show the Scattergun with the handle of the Spy’s revolver instead. A similar glitch happens with the Shortstop.

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Bug: Spy: In a rare occasion, there is a glitch where when a spy is disguised as an Engineer, the enemy will see the disguised spy still holding a Spy weapon. Like seeing an Engineer holding the Ambassador pistol.

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Bug: Spy: Sometimes a disguised spy will appear to have invisible or transparent weapons when seen by the enemy team. This also includes worn weapons like the Boot Legger or Gunboats.

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Bug: Mann Vs Machine/Mannhattan: This is a rare glitch, but sometimes a Samurai Demo will get stuck in the Robot spawn zone at the top where there is a ramp. His feet will be stuck in the down ramp and he will be completely unable to move or be moved. This presents a huge problem as while in the spawn zone, all robots are invulnerable and he will appear to be in a consent state of Ubercharge. The Samurai Demos are enemies that must be destroyed before progression, so one getting stuck means you must reset the wave or the match, as you will be forever stuck otherwise.

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Bug: Hell Tower: After a match victory by either team and the teams are sent to hell, if a Explosive Pumpkins spell is used too close to the edge of the lava, sometimes a pumpkin will be suspended party in the air over the edge of the rocks and will look like it is stuck to the side.

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Bug: Mann Vs. Machine: Often times if a player is too close to the explosion that happens when the wave is failed (meaning the robots pushed through and dropped the bomb), a player will die and the explosion will cause their ragdoll to get stuck in the ground, usually with just the head or torso protruding up from the ground. This can occasionally happen from other deaths in the MvM matches.

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Bug: Spy: The Enthusiast's Timepiece watch's cloak meter doesn't accurately measure the amount of cloak available.

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Bug: Spy: If while disguised, a Spy switches to a different class, some body parts of that class will vanish, like the Pyro's head or the Heavy's hands.

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Bug: Spy: If a Spy is using Spy-Cicle in Medieval Mode and is ignited, the HUD will still show the knife to enter cooldown mode, the knife can still be used. In some rare cases, it will cause the Spy to have no weapon at all and enter the Civilian pose.

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Bug: Spy: Sometimes if you use your Cloak and Dagger right as the round starts, the Spy will still turn invisible, but without holding up his watch.

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Bug: Sometimes there is a glitch with the Contentious Objector. I found this when it was just me and 1 other person on the map. Both have the Contentious Objector out but from the view of one person, both signs have the symbol on them of 1 person. Upon death, the sign drops and still shows the wrong logo, but when the other person switches weapons, it changes back but only from the view point of the other player.

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Bug: For the longest time, since they came out with taunting in the game, there has been a glitch where you can move while taunting. A player runs at a ledge and taunts right before they reach the edge. From the player's perspective, the view would switch to third person as it usually does while taunting, but only for a split second before snapping back to first person as the player goes over the edge and they can move unrestricted. And any dialog the character would say while taunting would be cut off. But to any other players watching, it would appear the player's model would continue the taunting animation, but drop off the ledge and be sliding around while taunting. This lead to an exploit as well involving the High Five Taunt that could be held indefinitely, and would throw off the player model's hit box and making it difficult to hit, especially troublesome for snipers. (This glitch has been fixed now as of the update of May 19th, 2014, preparing for the new taunts to be added to prevent exploiting).

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Scout: Gravity? Who gives a crap about gravity?

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Trivia: In Mann Co No More #2 - Unhappy Returns, a comic about the game, the Spy was revealed to have false teeth. And here he hides tiny provisions and a knife inside, and his hair was shown to be a dark grey.

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