Instance Master apppears to be sitting in a chair to new players joining
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Dervali
I have seen this bug very often since the recent updates (1017 being current).
On joining an instance the current instance master may appear to be sitting in a random chair in the world. The player will remain stuck in the chair for you until they sit in the chair and leave it.
This seems to happen to instances that have been open for a while, there does not seem to be any pattern to which chair the person is sitting in. This happens even if the player has never sat in a chair in the world. It only happens to the player the has been in the world the longest, so that is what I am calling Instance Master.
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Phasedragon
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bd_
Phasedragon: I just observed this bug occur on 1114; it doesn't seem completely fixed.
Phasedragon
bd_: Are you sure that what you observed was specifically caused by someone leaving the instance without exiting the chair? And it specifically affected the master? I know that stations can be unreliable in general, but if it's a different bug then it should be a different ticket.
bd_
Phasedragon: that's fair, unfortunately I don't have enough information about how it occurred to be sure, so for now chalk this up to "stations remain super buggy"
Asovrix
I think this issue is not happening anymore since a while...
Phasedragon
Asovrix: Correct, this issue was fixed in 2021.1.5 https://docs.vrchat.com/docs/vrchat-202115
Thanks for bumping this so we can mark it as complete!
Mr Q
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Hosts mic bugs out and gets stuck in a seat to players who just entered the lobby
YeetusTheFetus
Please fix this, its been in the game for months now.
Mr Q
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Public lobby host missing / stuck in a seat
Raeschen
This has been around for a while and used to be hand in hand with the stutter talk bug. The host of a busy, old public lobby tends to be missing for newly spawned users. Often the missing host can be seen stuck in a chair or station somewhere. This seems to occur mostly in old or very full public lobbies.
Kaugumme
OH so that's why that one person was sitting in the chair. ok yeah ive seen it yesterday
bingbongs
I currently have a second account on a separate computer which sits idle in a public pug. It's been going strong for the last few days and every 12-24 hours i'll create a new instance. This appears to fix the issue for most people as it will only happen to the master.
However if 10+ people join all at once there is a small chance the glitch may happen to one of the people that recently joined and not the master.
What's interesting is that person will have like a 'sync'd' version of the chair glitch. They seem to always be sitting in the same chair on everyones screen. I notice this tends to happen with the instance starter too pretty often.
I've also posted this on reddit for more exposure as not all users can post in the canny: https://www.reddit.com/r/VRchat/comments/lno8hh/the_infamous_chair_glitch/
I don't think the team realizes how frustrating this specific bug is. People can be having a fantastic time and then conversation always turns to this bug. It's extremely annoying and makes people just give up and quit.
Tupper - VRChat Head of Community
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Stations/Chairs are broken in worlds with chairs on by default
Rileyツ
One thing that has been driving me nuts and needs fixing is chairs/stations bugging out when instances are old enough. The instance owner gets stuck in them for late joiners and only gets fixed when the new user turns off chairs in the world or the person "in the chair" sits in it themselves and exits. this has to be repeated for every person entering the instance after the bug appears.
Another thing related to the bug is how the audio seems to flicker between the "sitting" users stationed position and true position.
Chairs also break locomotion for FBT and 3 point-tracking depending on how its set up in unity (locomotion seems the most likely to be the culprit)
All of the above has been an issue for months now. I do not recall when exactly it was introduced.
Tupper - VRChat Head of Community
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Random user gets stuck in station for new joiners
HolyKnightAD
I can't remember which build that started this bug but this happens in a world with stations. New joiners sees a random user getting stuck in station. You can tell that the user is not in a sitting animation. You can also tell that the user's audio is splitting between the users actual location and the bugged station.
It's really bad for worlds such as car and plane worlds. It's hard to convince players since they themselves aren't aware that they are bugged and had to force kick them if action can't be done quickly.
To recreate this bug, join a world with people and also has stations. There's a chance that at a user is getting stuck in a station.
Dervali
Cross posting this other report which appear to have reproduction steps. https://feedback.vrchat.com/bug-reports/p/random-user-gets-stuck-in-station-for-new-joiners
tldr; It is caused by someone leaving when in a station - See the other report for full details
Asovrix
Pretty much identical issues reported also here: https://vrchat.canny.io/bug-reports/p/instance-master-apppears-to-be-sitting-in-a-chair-to-new-players-joining and https://vrchat.canny.io/bug-reports/p/random-user-gets-stuck-in-station-for-new-joiners
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