Respawn="side" does not work

[Jackal]

Guys,
My problem lies when my MP mission does not let a player who has expended all his group's men respawn into another alive group that already exists on the map. I do not want to use the revive player type of respawn since I want the game to have a definite number of enemies and a definite outcome. Here is what I have tried:
 
respawn="group" works fine, but when I use "side" or 5 instead of "group", the game reacts the same way as a respawn= "group". I have checked for typos and to make sure description.ext is correct. I have set several playable squads one the side (example, resistance) so there are surely slots for the killed player to fall into, but noooooooo.... I get to be a bird. Help. Bestow your wisdom upon me. Btw, i am using OFP 1.96.

[Terox]

I've never actually used respawn "Side"

but
afaik it doesnt work anyway

may be wrong, am sure someone will reply to confirm

[benreeper]

I can't believe no knows the answer to this for sure.

I do not think it works.  It could be a bug, or a feature that was never fully implemented.  I've always used it but it behaves just like "group".
--Ben

[lizard]

It doesn't work for me either, just seems to do the same as "group", which is more than a little irritating  

[Killswitch]

I can't believe no knows the answer to this for sure.

I do not think it works.  It could be a bug, or a feature that was never fully implemented.  I've always used it but it behaves just like "group".
--Ben

The answer is: it's a very old bug. There is no working side respawn. As you have noticed, all it does is give you group respawn. It is indeed quite irritating.

The end.

[Lt_Ryan]

try "3" instead of side
i think 3 is "side", 1 = seagull,  2 = group
some one correct me if im wrong

[Planck]

i think 3 is "side", 1 = seagull,  2 = group

For the avoidance of doubt.  

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 0 ("NONE")
    - No respawn. The camera zooms slowly out from the player's body.

  1 ("BIRD")
    - Respawn as a seagull after respawndelay.

  2 ("INSTANT")
    - Respawn at the place of death after respawndelay.

  3 ("BASE")
    - Respawn at a random spot in the side's marker zone after respawndelay.
    Names of the different zones are:
        West: respawn_west
        East: respawn_east
        Resistance: respawn_guerrila
        Civilians: respawn_civilian

  4 ("GROUP")
    - Respawn into any alive AI in the player's squad after respawndelay.
    If nobody is left, respawn as a seagull.

  5 ("SIDE")
    - Exactly the same as number 4 ("GROUP")


Planck