Trapped in the (wrong) spawn room after round change

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While playing Ilios, my team lost the first round on “Well”. I switched characters after the “Round 1 Complete” message popped up. When the next round’s prep phase started on “Ruins”, I had spawned back in the “Well” spawn room! When the round started, the doors wouldn’t open. Attempting to switch characters didn’t work, it gave a “You must be in spawn to change characters” message. And since I had switched to Reinhardt, I couldn’t suicide. I tried everything I could to reset myself, but nothing worked. I was completely stuck until the round (and ultimately, match) ended.

I have some screenshots as evidence but apparently you can’t include links on this forum. Oh well.

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This is still an ongoing issue.

Here’s another occurrence I just experienced:

Replay code: KCTGR7
Chat: files.catbox.moe/f9zwkz.png

This was a competitive match. On transition from the first round to the second (Illios Well to Lighthouse at 5:31 in the replay), the player jinji gets stuck in the previous Well spawn room. They were playing Hog at the end of the first round, and Orisa at the beginning of second round.

Players can get stuck in the previous spawn room on all Control maps if they die close to the end of a round, or switch heroes during the round change screen. Might also occur if a player backfills close to the end of a round.

Players have reported successfully freeing themselves by leaving and rejoining the match.

In every replay I’ve seen of this issue, everyone else is teleporting to the next spawn one-by-one in quick succession right around the time something happens to the stuck player (like swapping heroes). It seems like updates to player entities during this critical teleport phase can interrupt or prevent their teleport to the new spawn.

I could not find a definitive megathread for this issue, so I’m resurrecting this post as the oldest occurrence I could find.

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Here’s a video showing the spawn room during a round transition: https://youtu.be/NhEuEUzfLZ8?t=13

  1. Both Ramattra and Ana are seen in the last-played spawn room during the round change screen.
  2. At 5:16.788, the Ana swaps to Moira.
  3. At 5:16.918, Ramattra teleports to the next spawn (but Moira does not).

See Busan Map 2 Spawned me into Map 1 Spawn room for further details of this case in particular.

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Makes you ask why they can’t just disallow switching when the round complete screen comes up.

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Hero switching seems to be related to this issue, but I don’t think it’s the only cause. This video from 2018 shows a Mei that got stuck in the previous spawn without swapping heroes, and this issue describes a backfill player experiencing this bug on their first hero selection.

Just speculating, but to me this feels like a conflict or race condition where players won’t teleport to the new spawn if their player entity gets updated just before the teleport is supposed to happen. Things like respawning, swapping heroes, and selecting a first hero all seem to be possible triggers for this bug.

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Here’s another video of the spawn room during a round transition: https://youtu.be/bSe014wuTec

See Locked in previous round’s spawn during competitve for further details.

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Exactly the same issue occurred in my last game. Therefore i got a panalty, because i was kicked out of the game for not being AFK. I couldn’t do anything. I hope they will fix this asap

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Could you post the replay code?