No messages generated for shields/energy in multiplayer for picking up a spew at the same time it spawns

[roncli]

Some players believe this also means you are NOT picking up the items. I'm not sure we have seen that in the wild yet, so more information is needed on this.

[roncli]

This is the result of a positional disagreement between client and server. The client thinks it picked up the powerup, but the server does not. The client does a "fake pickup", giving the sound and removing it from the game, and then waits for the server to give it the message that you picked it up, but that message never happened. The powerup remains there to be picked up, but the client who thought they picked it up and didn't can't actually see it.

The intention is for the player to hear a pickup the moment they run over it, and the code assumes that positions will always be perfect... which they are not. Is the right answer to make it 100% server side controlled? Keep the powerup in the level until the server says it's picked up? Or keep it as is? Not sure on this one.