Pretty sure it's the client now.

As the topic said, players are no longer turning into the "wired-models", they are fully invisible upon crash now. Can't be targeted, nor can you assist someone that's on an earlier client that CAN see them. Many players seem to be abusing Ctrl-Alt-Delete now to guarantee survivability.

It's getting rather annoying. I know it's not just me as I've had players in my group experience the same thing with the variance in clients.

Here is the message you receive when trying to assist a player that has an LD'ing player targetted.

I noticed this also on the 1.113 client