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Short description:
The host tried to unpause the game, but it stayed paused for me while he and everything else could move around.


Longer description:
I was trying to join the server and the catch up was very slow, so I asked him to pause the game. It did nothing on his side but on my side it said that he had paused the game and it stayed that way after I finally got in to the server. He nor I could unpause the game for me. I then tried to host the last autosave and the game crashed
I could however host that same savefile after I restarted factorio

Mods
RSO 3.3.5
FARL 1.1.1
200 Inventory size 0.15.0

Thanks for the report,

Can you reproduce this bug?
Can you provide some exact steps to make this error occur again?

Hi, noticed a very similar issue in version [15.33]

The problem seems to happen when I download a map that my friend created, and then host the same map.
If I try to pause the game, nothing happens for me, but my friend gets the message that he is joining a paused game.

However, If I launch the multiplayer game with the option 'anyone can pause' instead of only admins, this no longer happens.
I don't know if hosting a map that someone else created is supposed to make you an admin, but I assume it is currently not doing so, so I suppose it is normal that the game does not let me pause.
The bug seems to be that a flag stating that a game is paused is set before checking if I have the permission to pause it.

Neither of us experienced crashes related to this though.

Hope this helps

Update:

I made a few test with my friend on a fresh world, and we can easily reproduce the bug:

1 - Player A creates a new multiplayer world. Player B joins player A.
2 - Player B saves the map and leaves, player A leaves as well.
3 - Player B loads the map as a multiplayer game, with 'only admins can pause' on. In this state, player B can't pause.
4 - Player A joins player B. While player A is loading he map, player B pauses. This will not pause the game, but player A will see a message that the server is paused and won't be able to play.

A few notes: if player B tries to pause before player A is loading, player A will not get stuck. If player B tries to pause after player A has successfully joined, then player A will get the same message, and that blocks all input(for example if he was moving, he will keep moving in the same direction and won't be able to stop). Player A can try clicking 'unpause game' but this has no effect (player B can only see the 'Pause game' button.

Hopefully, this should not be too hard to fix now

Seconding this. It has happened to me at least twice. Occurs when a non-admin host tries to pause a game while someone else is catching up.