PlayerEntered event does not fire when adding a new player

[Nash]

In the following scenario:

1) With a mod that has a PlayerEntered event. Player 1 starts a single player game. Event fires off as expected
2) Save the the game, then quit
3) Start a 2 player game, load up the saved game
4) The PlayerEntered event does not fire for Player 2.

My question is if such a scenario is deliberately not supported?

[Rachael]

I don't think lack of support for this is deliberate, however I also don't think it's something easily accounted for. I don't think when the event system was designed, such a scenario ever crossed anyone's mind.

This is yet another way I think that the event system as a whole is showing some of its weaknesses. You really have to account for every little thing, and that's simply not possible because it's really easy to come up with ways that are less conventional - such as this.

[Nash]

Should I make a suggestion for this? Probably a new event to ensure compatibility; NewPlayerEntered? PlayerAdded?

[Rachael]

I think it's best to report it as a bug., but it will call into question whether the scenario you described should be directly supported or not. (Which is a good thing, don't worry)

[Nash]

Added runnable example file, requesting thread moved to Bugs

[phantombeta]

I believe this happens for the same reason as this bug report.
I don't think we can trivially change where it's called from without breaking existing mods, so it might be a better idea to have a boolean that indicates whether to use the old behaviour or the new one. Or we could just straight up use the versioning system to choose that, that should work too.

[Caligari87]

Does using PlayerSpawned() mitigate the problem? I'm not sure if it's directly related but I made the PR to have an event that more closely exactly mimicked the behavior of the ACS ENTER script type (only firing when the player has a pawn existing in the game world).

EDIT: Good grief. I got linked from elsewhere and didn't realize I was bumping a year-old thread, sorry

[Nash]

I was the one who inquired Cali about this issue, so I'll take the blame. :) The reason is I'd like to know if the PlayerSpawn() thing Cali added actually solves the issue with "late player spawning not firing PlayerEntered event" that phantombeta is describing.