When a shaman spawns an object (or a bot or Module API script) there's a puff of smoke particle effect where it's spawned. There isn't in the first 8 seconds of a map.

I assume there was some kind of a timer put on there so that there wouldn't be a million particle effects if a new map loads that has lots of shaman objects, but 8 seconds is a bit long.

Hah, I never noticed that.
I'll talk with sents about adding to the Bugs List. Ty sir~

its because if there are shaman objects in a user made map it the smoke effect doesnt show and its more like 5 seconds because 1st 3 seconds wont count

I thought it was to do with shaman objects existing in maps.

However it is 8 seconds (for example if a round starts at 2:00 it won't show puffs of smoke until 1:52).

the thing that you even saw this is amazing
also, i played a map without shaman objects (0) and encountered this too
either tig's wonky coding or a bug that came from an update

Doesn't matter how you do it. If you're doing something that will have the puff, then you'll notice this.
Also Liam and I were talking about this in game and it's been this way since 2010.

Who notices this bug is amazing I say.
It's really weird but doesn't cause a lot of misunderstanding/confusing, so I'm guessing it's not really effective or anything.

A lot of people in *#deathmath and *#cheesehunt have noticed it, so YES it does effect things.

Tig is aware of it now and will fix it when he can.