Forged Alliance Forever

Re: Randomly dropping connection during game

2016-09-05T22:09:21+02:00

I'm sort of bringing this up again thanks to my latest disaster. I was on 75% of dominating on a 64 ACU map when the game suddenly decides to hate me and kill the connection with everyone.

At first I thought it could be because my internet connection decides to drop for a second but that was perfectly alright.

Will posting logs help this WiP? I'm going to do it anyway. It may be the only thing to help reduce my level of upsetness.

Statistics: Posted by Plasma_Wolf — 05 Sep 2016, 22:09

Re: Randomly dropping connection during game

2016-08-28T16:51:10+02:00

I dont know if i should post here since it's supposedly an already solved thread but i'm experiencing the same problem.

Firts of all i joined FAF just before the server change so i can't say if it was better before, but since after the server change it was quite a common issue i didn't paid it too much mind, i came back recently and saw that the situation seems definitely improved for most people, but not for me and a few others it seems.

I can say that these disconnetions dont seems to be completely random, there are certain players with which i've a very high chance of disconnects during the game and other with which i can play for hours without any issue, that would imply that this is actually some network issue, on the other hand i've got the same network setup and isp (20mb adsl) for quite some years now, during which i played many online multiplayer games, and i never had any kind of similar issue, so to the very least it's not ONLY my network, but the way it works with FAF the problem. It may be also worth mentioning that i never lag during games, everything is fine until the sudden disconnection.

Also what Hzale said

Hzale wrote:
Were those two players not connected in lobby and established the connection after refaffing? Same happened to me and it was always with the guy i had no connection in lobby. After refaffing we were connected but then dropped connection after some minutes ingame.

is definitely true, i've noticed that there is much higher chance of disconnetion with those players you had connection issues in the lobby, but sadly it's still possible to disconnects even with players you had no such issues.

Sheeo wrote:
We don't currently support live reconnection during games when peers disconnect, this was never supported.

It's a work in progress though.

I hope so, for me and any other guy in my position this is THE major FAF issue, to the point you stop playing or are have to play only ladder
to avoid the risk of ruining the game for all those on your team.

Right now there is poll on what the devs should focus on in the future and "fixing server issues" is the leading option, i voted for that hoping that this disconnection problem will be fixed too (even if it might not be entirely server related).

Statistics: Posted by fireal — 28 Aug 2016, 16:51

Re: Randomly dropping connection during game

2016-06-06T17:07:10+02:00

We don't currently support live reconnection during games when peers disconnect, this was never supported.

It's a work in progress though.

Statistics: Posted by Sheeo — 06 Jun 2016, 17:07

Re: Randomly dropping connection during game

2016-06-05T22:51:48+02:00

Softly wrote:
Also CookieNoob your game log has a bunch of random stuff in it, seems you've got a UI mod that is putting debug messages into your log.

hm... I am using 9 different UI mods... dunno which one causes that :/

Statistics: Posted by CookieNoob — 05 Jun 2016, 22:51

Re: Randomly dropping connection during game

2016-06-04T21:46:42+02:00

Softly wrote:
My best guess is that the cause of this is local network setups, and not actually anything to do with FAF.

i doubt that to be honest, i have this problems since the last major serverpatch. My local net didnt change for more than a year.

Edit: probably this is caused by the changes to the proxy, although im not rlly into that stuff

Statistics: Posted by Mephi — 04 Jun 2016, 21:46

Re: Randomly dropping connection during game

2016-06-04T02:19:33+02:00

Softly wrote:
My best guess is that the cause of this is local network setups, and not actually anything to do with FAF.

I'm surprised to read that.
I havn't plaid in a few weeks, but last I did, it was expected that people would disconnect by pair in lobby, with having to "refaf" as a usual thing to fix it, and then on numerous games having pairs disconnecting during the game, to the point that people stopped insulting each other for bad connection because it had become just an expected thing noone could do anything about.

If it's people's networks, that's a whole lot of bad networks.

Statistics: Posted by Zoram — 04 Jun 2016, 02:19

Re: Randomly dropping connection during game

2016-06-04T01:17:06+02:00

These logs don't give any indication as to the cause of the bug, all they say is that two people lost connection to each other.

My best guess is that the cause of this is local network setups, and not actually anything to do with FAF. Interestingly the client does appear to send a bunch of messages to the server when people lose connection, so there might be some way to use that to reconnect people (if someone feels like coding it).

Also CookieNoob your game log has a bunch of random stuff in it, seems you've got a UI mod that is putting debug messages into your log.

Statistics: Posted by Softly — 04 Jun 2016, 01:17

Re: Randomly dropping connection during game

2016-05-29T09:37:58+02:00

is there any fix to this yet as it happens to me at least 1 in 5 games

Statistics: Posted by PANTS — 29 May 2016, 09:37

Re: Randomly dropping connection during game

2016-05-26T12:27:48+02:00

actually I was the host, so when Mephi joined he was definetely connected to me from the start.

Statistics: Posted by CookieNoob — 26 May 2016, 12:27

Re: Randomly dropping connection during game

2016-05-26T10:30:03+02:00

Were those two players not connected in lobby and established the connection after refaffing? Same happened to me and it was always with the guy i had no connection in lobby. After refaffing we were connected but then dropped connection after some minutes ingame.

Statistics: Posted by Hzale — 26 May 2016, 10:30

Re: Randomly dropping connection during game

2016-05-25T21:42:54+02:00

still happening, here are the logs of me and the player i lost connection to

Mephi logs:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/sz7x53gbauev ... 1G2ha?dl=0

CookieNoob logs:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/b5ac72pviccv ... TJGca?dl=0

we dropped the connection during the game at min 6 or so, both stayed connected to every other player

Statistics: Posted by Mephi — 25 May 2016, 21:42

Re: Randomly dropping connection during game

2016-05-10T09:01:14+02:00

I confirm. Seems to happen once every 3 to 4 games. pair of people can't see each other, game stucks until one decides to leave.

Statistics: Posted by Zoram — 10 May 2016, 09:01

Randomly dropping connection during game

2016-05-09T21:06:26+02:00

It happens very often atm, that two players lose the connection to each other during a game, for whatever reasons. This issue is present since a long time now. Is there any motivation to fix it?

The logs are to the last game i played, which got ended by this issue. I lost the connection to DevilSSmile for no reason. I hope he posts his logs also.

Statistics: Posted by Mephi — 09 May 2016, 21:06