Why can't I open my backpack?

[Langley]

Assuming that it isn't a TK penalty (even after 12+ hours), I can not open my backpack, pickup weaponry, or change guns in the armory.
If it is a TK penalty, why is it in place? I can understand greifers will be limited by this, but a grenade I threw got stuck on top of a sandbag (literally ON TOP), killing me and a few guys. Is there a time limit on this? I am concered about this because I like to run guns back and forth across the battlefield.

[JackMayol]

There is a penalty manager in place. It should kick in after 4 TKs or something. Teamkills we vanish after 15 mins. If you continue teamkilling, of course this will increase the penalty time.
It sometimes happen that a legit player make a few teamkills by placing an artillery strike and people run into it or eventually the case you mentioned.
When penalized, you can't use explosives anymore, neither drive a vehicle. This is not a huge deal for legit players, just play cautiously for a while and then it will go away.
Even without explosives or vehicles you can be very effective anyway.

[Langley]

Originally posted by JackMayol:

There is a penalty manager in place. It should kick in after 4 TKs or something. Teamkills we vanish after 15 mins. If you continue teamkilling, of course this will increase the penalty time.
It sometimes happen that a legit player make a few teamkills by placing an artillery strike and people run into it or eventually the case you mentioned.
When penalized, you can't use explosives anymore, neither drive a vehicle. This is not a huge deal for legit players, just play cautiously for a while and then it will go away.
Even without explosives or vehicles you can be very effective anyway.

I was just wondering, as I can still pick up and use grenades. What bugs me is that I can't open the inventory menu if I would like to choose a different firearm or gain resource points. I play on 1.1 with friends and on pubs, and I saw the changelog notes in effect in 0.9(.9?), so I'm hoping you can allow the inventory menus to be opened in a new update.