Crash on Zombie Grunt Corpse Gibbing

Black Mesa Archive In-game Issues
#1

I have yet to get around to testing this on my desktop, so this report is (at the moment) going to be limited to my laptop, running Windows 8.1.

Gibbing a zombie grunt with a shotgun works fine, as does the gluon and explosives - however, once the zombie grunt is dead, if the ragdoll has any contact with explosives or the tau cannon, it will crash the game. (Oddly the gluon gun - and sometimes the tau cannon - seems to fire through the corpse, rather than making contact with it)

Additionally, I don’t think this one has been reported or fixed yet - on the (very!) rare occasions when explosions halve zombie guards, it spawns a zombie scientist torso npc rather than a zombie guard torso. I have yet to encounter the halving behavior on the zombie grunt, so I don’t know if this is the case for them.

#2

It definitely halves the zombie grunt to make a zombie grunt npc.
One other thing to add is that, alongside spawning a zombie scientist torso npc, it has no AI and just sits there while I mercilessly beat it to death.
EDIT: nevermind, seemed to be a one-off thing

#3

Crash also confirmed on Windows 10 - using explosives to gib a live zombie this time. The crash seems to occur right on the frame at/before detonation (the game hangs there for a second before crashing), so I would assume it has something to do with the gibbing check.

#4

Just loaded bm_c2a5g to do explosives tests on the zombie grunts in the parking lot - I used every explosive available to me on map load, and I used shotgun to gib zombies, and there were no crashes. I even tried to do some corpse explosions and Tau Cannon but it does not crash. I also have halved a zombie guard, and it spawned, for me at least, a zombie guard torso npc. I tried to reproduce JeffMOD’s glitch, but couldn’t do it.

However, I did manage to crash my game messing around. I placed tripmines far away from a dead Alien Grunt ragdoll (presumably, i never figured out), and placed satchel charges near said ragdoll. I detonated the ragdoll, and my game crashed.

I’m using windows 7.

#5

Halving also works properly on Win 10, and there was more stability with live zombie grunts this round of testing - It wasn’t until I used an mp5 grenade on a dead zombie (killed with 357, doubt that makes a difference though) that the game crashed.

This bug is weird and I don’t know why it only seems to affect some operating systems/machines.

#6

I’m fairly certain this bug was fixed quite some time ago, but it seems to have had a resurgence.

EDIT: Despite crashing the game consistently a few times, it seems to have fixed itself again. Strange.

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