Engineers new Uncle Sam alt avatar abilities crashes the game for other players

[Esja]

Hello!

I was playing a game with my friend who played Devourer , and I decided to play Engineer with the new Uncle Sam alt avatar. My friend immediately noticed that the portrait for Engineer was just a blank square in the picking phase, which is a common error that normally doesn't cause this disconnection/crash error. When the game was loaded, he was still seeing the old normal Engineer model for my character, whereas all the other team members actually saw the real one I was using (Uncle Sam). After like 4 min when I engaged a Silhouette in the top lane (my Devo was mid) and used the keg for the first time, Devo immediately got disconnected from the game with the error "xxxx unread bits", and then some other error which he cannot remember. He kept getting disconnected IMMEDIATELY whenever I used any of the abilities with a new animation (Keg, Turret or Ulti), however not the mine.

Match ID: 93925210

When watching the replay it's blatantly obvious that the disconnection happens whenever I use the engi abilities. We were forced to CC the game!

[[GM]tiGa]

does he have any mods installed?

if yes, uninstall/update mods. problem solved!

if no, reinstall hon. problem solved!

[[S2]ElementUser]

It doesn't crash me nor any players in the game yesterday when I had an Uncle Sam Engineer in my game. Please disable your mods and try reinstalling, else contact Tech Support