Help reduce (or fix) exessive script load issue

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Hey guys.

So I’m trying to fix ‘my’ version of the Reinhardt Invasion Remastered mode. It’s old, it was originally created (not by me) back in Overwatch 1. I changed a few things in it over the past few months, but it’s mostly related to balancing Heroes (so outside the actual Workshop scripting).

There is a main sort of “gimmick” in my version which is:

  1. Some specific Heroes in the cast become bigger when they perform their Ult (and regress back to normal size when the Ult is done).
  2. Sometimes after dying and randomly getting another Hero, you remain big in size.
  3. The ‘Fast & Tiny’ Reinhardt wave variation significantly made them much faster (than any other Reinhardt invasion mode variants around).
  4. The last Reinhardt boss (last wave) is somewhat faster and deals more damage than the usual similar modes.

As you can see, it’s nothing that crazy, pretty simple. In fact I even removed some scripts which were dating back to the original version (if anything it’s maybe simpler, more ‘Arcade’-style in gameplay with my changes; it’s faster-paced in general as the Reinhardts movement speed was globally increased, but there’s nothing too crazy in this mode otherwise).

With all this said, I have recurring server crash issues with the ‘Excessive Script Load’ message.

I didn’t always have this issue before but I’m not sure what happened, or what I’ve done maybe the past the month or two (maybe), but as of late this issue has been continuously plaguing my mode. I do sometimes have crash-less games… which leads me to think that it can be fixed, but I’d say I have a server crash maybe 8 games out of 10, at some point or another (can be Wave #5, or Wave #49, whatever, it just happens at some point).

If anyone could please look into this, maybe the Workshop scripting portion I’d highly appreciate it. Do keep in mind however that I didn’t create this mode originally. I only did some copy-pasting and some minor adjustments whenever I thought I could do them to come up with ‘my gimmicks’ but that’s it.

Original Author: StalkerPL
Current variation in this thread, changes made by me.

Here is the code if you’d be so kind as to check it out:

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I would highly appreciate if anyone qualified in this sort of thing could give me some pointers maybe, perhaps where in the script you’d think something might be causing excessive script load, etc.

Thank you very much.

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6CRT4

Hopefully didn’t break anything ~~

I’d assume the excessive script load came from the Jump and Float Pads as the rules responsible for those were active 24/7, didn’t do much aside from changing those to only active when the player is eligible to ride them, it might still crash when they’re used though~
But since it doesn’t run for all active players anymore but only those actually using them it shouldn’t be as bad anymore.

The death not resetting scale should also be fixed.
If the Corpse is supposed to stay large though you might need to move the “Stop Scaling Player” Rule in the Team 1 Death Rule below the Wait Until.

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Ok, noted.

Thank you very much for taking the time to look into it.

On a side note, in the meantime, I also tried to add an Anti-Crash script I found on another Reinhardt Invasion mode, copied it to mine and had 2 Matches in a row without a crash. It slows down the gameplay down to around 25% speed (for everything, it’s global) when the server load gets to (or goes over, I think) a value of 250 if I recall right.

It seems to help. But in any case I’ll check into your recommendations anyway for a general ‘clean up’, always good to do that too.

Thank you again, very much.

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