[<1551-4343]'wait' doesn't work in console [long title]

[Edward-san]

[<1551-4343]'wait' doesn't work in console when there's intermission or just after the program is loaded

Original report from zandronum.
Try this in console in these situations:

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say blablabla;wait 35;say still blablabla

It'll display "blablabla" message but won't display "still blablabla" like in the game. It happens with the other commands, too. I tried to change mouse_sensitivity after 'wait' but didn't work.

[Graf Zahl]

I'm not surprised. Since the playsim isn't running, neither is the game ticker.

[randi]

Waiting commands are stored in regular thinkers, so if the game isn't thinking, they can't do anything. And like regular thinkers, they also get destroyed when you move to a new map.

[Leonard2]

Was there any specific reason for DWaitingCommand to be a DThinker?
The waiting commands could be stored in something like a TArray that would be iterated through in C_Ticker instead, that would solve the problem described here.
Sorry for the huge bump but I didn't know where else to ask.

[Edward-san]

Sorry for the huge bump but I didn't know where else to ask.

You could open a new thread in 'Generals', I guess, by linking this thread.

Any moderator, can you split and move this away?