[Mitchell]

Originally Posted by BoosterGold If that's true, why does it work perfectly fine with exactly one player on a team, but fail to work when another player joins?

Yeah, you got me there, that's pretty strange.

[Powerlord]

Originally Posted by psychonic You should not need to use any tricks with the asterisk with built-in sounds as they should already be in the client's on-disk sound cache. (The * bypasses that and streams the file directly). You should be able to precache and play like sounds in any other game, custom or built-in.

People have reported before that only MP3 files work using the * method. Why that is, I have no idea.

[ambn]

maybe try this?
that's what works for me .

PHP Code:

for(int player = 1; player <= MaxClients; player++)
{
    ClientCommand(player, "play */misc/all/vip/vip1.mp3");
} 


[OSWO]

Originally Posted by ambn maybe try this? that's what works for me . PHP Code: for(int player = 1; player <= MaxClients; player++) {     ClientCommand(player, "play */misc/all/vip/vip1.mp3"); }

The problem I've found doing it this way is that multiple "sound streams" cannot be played at once.

[BoosterGold]

Originally Posted by ambn maybe try this? that's what works for me . PHP Code: for(int player = 1; player <= MaxClients; player++) {     ClientCommand(player, "play */misc/all/vip/vip1.mp3"); }

My understanding was that the play command is protected and the server can't force clients to do it if they have cl_restrict_server_commands set to 1 (the default value). I'll try it anyway when I can get back to my PC.

EDIT: Haha, nevermind, cl_restrict_server_commands was removed in like 2007.

[BoosterGold]

Originally Posted by ambn maybe try this? that's what works for me . PHP Code: for(int player = 1; player <= MaxClients; player++) {     ClientCommand(player, "play */misc/all/vip/vip1.mp3"); }

I implemented this exactly as you have it and it works exactly like I want it to. Just for testing's sake, I also tried this:

PHP Code:

for(int player = 1; player <= MaxClients; player++)
{
    EmitSoundToClient(player, "player/vo/phoenix/goingtoplantbomba02.wav");
} 


This went back to the weird behavior I described in the OP. So I think EmitSoundTo<x> is just buggy in CS:GO.