I see reports of "bad connectivity". But please understand, when we play the game with people online it works perfectly so we need to try to understand specifically what you're seeing.
So when you say "I can't get into a multiplayer custom game" for instance, what specifically do you mean?
Can you bring up the connectivity dialog? What does it say?
That kind of thing. The more you tell us, the quicker we can resolve it.
See http://forums.demigodthegame.com/347467 for where we're at.
Thanks!
Hi,
I am a German player and I have never been able to play any multiplayer game. I can log into the account and even get the multiplayer games displayed, but whenever I wanna join, it doesn't work out. I can sit there for a few minutes, but I will never be connected to anyone (though I can open the waiting for connection dialog - though there is no data in there).
I have all ports forwarded (UDP), so I doubt it is just that...
Would be nice, if these problems could be solved in a week or so, because for the meager Singleplayer online content, it is a bit pricey
Me and a friend tried tonight both without the beta, and afterwards with the beta. We're on LAN, there's a router between us and the Internet. The port-range specified is open, and custom games work very well. Sometimes...
FUI we're in Denmark.
Both ways seem to not grant us any Pantheon games. Well, we got one without the beta, but it split up the game as we were entering, so he was in one game with a bot, playing against 2 other bots, and I got into the game playing with a bot, against 2 humans. Needless to say, I lost.
Both spilt games ran fine, with no lag.
Then we join a 2v2 custom game. 27-80 ping between us. Should work fine. But every time we meet the other players, lag is introduced in crazy spikes. Not a long recap-lag, but small spikes of 200-700ms in rapid succession. That's not playable, and it shouldn't be that bad with 80 as the maximum ping.
It's weird, because before any of this got fixed, we had few problems connecting to servers (even Pantheon worked), there was lag in 1 of 5 games, and it was still playable with the 3 second lags. The stuttering makes it impossible to time anything.
What's going on?
Had trouble all evening getting into custom multiplayer games. After 2 hours of trying i didn;t succeed and wanted to post on this forum. Now that I have posted here and got back to the game it doesn;t even log me in. It says incorrect username and password. I really don;t have a clue what to do now...
Bascrebolder
Okay, I really hope that the dev' team will read this. I forwarded the ports I'm supposed to, I have no firewall, and I'm playing the v1.00. I have the following issues, and afaik many other people have also experienced them :
- Can't play any game in Pantheon or Skirmish. Either i'm unable to find any games (i tried to wait 30+ min without success), or, when I find a game (2v2, 3v3, whatever...), there are 1 or several AIs and 1 or 2 human players max (sometimes none). I'm not playing online to play with AIs, which totally screw the game by feeding the enemy.
- Custom Games : I can access a lobby, but it's hard to have everyone connect with each other. Often, we have to create a new game and everyone have to rejoin. And eventually we all have green pings (and no 0ms ping). But it's quite random...
When we finally manage to launch a custom game : LAG ! There is a permanent and regular lag which is really annoying, with sometimes monster lag spikes.
And, finally, random disconnection : i played today 5 4v4 games, and we haven't been able to finish even one game with the 8 players. Last game I played, we were 8, and suddenly, at 40min played, everyone disconnected except me, and another player (so it's not me who disconnected cause i could speak to a player, but every other players had been replaced by AIs (0 ping, not responding)).
Okay, I thought the last patch was supposed to fix many issues... But the game is still unplayable.
It's really, really annoying cause it's such a fucking good game, but we can't play it.
One (genuine) question to the devs : why haven't you used a LAN-like networking system, like Hamachi or Garena ? I am a DotA player, and Garena works perfectly to play online with other people. So, what's the difference with Demigod ? Could a similar system work ?
Keep up the good work, and thanks again for this great game. I hope we'll soon be able to finally enjoy it !
Seriously, I've been holding back the rage....
At least before the patch... once a game was connected it worked well. Now after this craptastic patch... we finally get a custom game going then bam, someone went LD after 30 minutes, then we were plagued with Desync errors. It was a really great game too, although a waste of time.
WOW, this is the worst online game experience I've ever had. Inet games of 10 years ago were 10x better in regards to netcode.
The sad part is, i really like this game. Unfortunately it ends in more frustration than fun. What are the folks at Stardock doing? If their job is to release increasingly unworkable code, then they are doing a great job. Maybe they are run by the US Govt, fits the MO.
Unreal....
http://forums.impulsedriven.com/351669/
check my reply #31 if you are on Euro DSL, thats how i finally got it working.. and i had exact the same problems as most of you. if you have a different router check www.portforward.com to find out how to open ports if you aren`t that experienced in how to do it.
Most people with issues myself included have their ports forwarded and i have checked mine and its open. The issues lies in the fact pre monday patch i was fine with the occasional crash now virtually every game i join theres one person in the list i cannot connect to (probably someone with non forwarded ports) and this stops me attempting to connect to others. I reckon they've changed it so you connect to one at a time and if u cant connect to that person then its game over .
I could setup routed IP as mine is static and I have an IP range (business ISP) but it wont help they've broken something and damn me they better fix it!!
I had 2 problems with connections, the connections would take forever to connect and then when I was connected to several players I would get the Nat failure message. I went into the router (linksys) using 192.168.1.1 in a browser and in the security page there were 2 options:
1) Filter Nat Multicast - I unchecked that
2) Filter Internet NAT Redirection was already unchecked
I can now play Multi-player with no problems. I just need to win more!
Dear developers!
Before sell this game u should tell - "dear costumer! u buying offline game, cause u will never connect"
Wasting of money. F@ck it!!!
as i can see only Demigod developers can not make normal connection.
all other games work perfect wtf?!...
q: retards?
a: y/n?
I now have a problem where a "fatal error" occurs when I try to host a game. After several players join Demigod hangs up and I have to end the program using task manager. I can join and play multiplayer games but hosting is impossible.
I am currently playing from Los Angeles, and I used to have absolutely no problem AT ALL trying to get into a game. Sure it took a while, but it was worth it because custom games had 3v3 and 4v4, unlike pantheon which has no idea how the hell to do anything besides the usual boring pointless 2v2. After the patch, my client might be able to connect me to one guy. And then it would start coughing up blood or something because it wouldn't connect to anyone else. Then it says some stupid junk like BLAH BLAH BLAH NAT disconnect something something BLAH BLAH BLAH.
TBH I hope you guys rollback the patch, because I can't play Demigod anymore. The new connection system seems rather flimsy and unreliable. I really love playing Demigod, but whatever this patch did it seriously messed up the game.
Pantheon I get nothing but endless games where 1 or more players drop and theres bots in thier place or I end up in a 5v5 with nothing but bots. At least when I was staring at a matchmaking dialog I could read my book now I have to click score to see who is real and whose a bot and end the game and sign up again.
Its really really annoying please take more time to ensure everything is functioning properly before starting a game rather than launching it and hoping for the best. I'd rather it gave up trying to get a particular match to work than launch it half hartedly then I wouldn't have to mess around with the interface I'd just wait till a stable one was formed.
Since the May 11 patch I have been unable to join any multiplayer game and no one can join my games. Prior to the patch I had no issues hosting or joining other's games. Now when attempting to join a Skirmish, Pantheon or Customer Game I am left on the Attempting to join screen and clicking on Connection Information the only message I get is "Waiting for connection data". Prior to the May 11 patch I would see a list of names for people I was connecting to within 5 seconds, now after 15 minutes still nothing but "Waiting for connection data".
I have changed nothing on my system or connection besides the patches to DG since May 11.
I was able to play any online game after the beta patch. Before the beta patch I would connect to no players at all, after it... almost 100%. The patch after that, still worked great, now the May 14th one comes and I can always connect to the host but never to ANYONE else.
When I host a game I can connect to EVERY player but no one can connect to me.
This does not change if I am in the DMZ of my router's firewall, windows firewall on/off both public and domain levels (Windows 7.) If I plug straight into my modem (Qwest ADSL2) or if I forward a million ports, mod games files, .dll's ect...
I have re-installed demigod over 20 times, re-formatted my computer to 3 different OS's (XP 32-bit, Vista 64-bit and Windows 7 RC1 [7100]) several times now. Through all the the rebuilds nothing allowed me to connect to other players and then after my 4th OS rebuild I got the beta patch and it worked. So since I hate Vista I re-installed Windows 7 and LEFT MY FIREWALLS ON and my system and router in default configs, was still able to play fine. Then the may 14th patch came out and everything broke again.
The only thing that ever let me play online was the beta patch, the one after it and that's it. No amount of personal user config affects my ability to play games online at all. It's all Demigod software based at this point.
On a side note, VPN tools and apps such as Hamachi and Gameranger work 100% of the time for me with every and any patch. I play with other people that have purchased their copies of the game to support Stardock and Gaspowered Games as a company. However I would like the ability to play online again.
Please let me know if you need any more information such as dxdiags or what-not.
Thank you,
Shantarr Dal'rae
You can ask for a refund. Stardock is very open on this issue, so it's hard to waste money on this game...
My wife and I each have a copy with our own cd key, and we can play together by having one of us host a custom internet game, but if one of us tries to host a LAN game, the other cannot see it in the server list. We're both using Vista 64, we're both using Comodo, have Defense+ disabled, and the firewall portion has Demigod registered as a trusted application, and we have windows firewall disabled. Any suggestions?
I get the exact same problem as Heavenfall does (from page 1 of forums) with these errors:
Situation one:
In a pantheon game. The NAT facilitator finds some players. I can open the "connection info" dialog. I see everyone connecting. Once the game has finished loading for me, I hear the "player has left" message twice or thrice.
Situation two:
In a pantheon game. The NAT facilitator finds some players. I can open the "connection info" dialog. Everyone connects to everyone, except one player who only connects to me. I decide to kick him after due time. I now have a game with all players all connected to each other. The game does not start. I stay at the same screen, nothing else changes. However I get a message saying "Dropped from game due to matchmaking error" (or something along those lines)
Ever since that patch came out to fix this connectivity issue i can't even play with my friends anymore. I mean i use to be able to connect to them no problem but now i can't connect to 1 of them so i find it pointless. But here is my problem...i try to connect to him and i check the connectivity info...it says that my friend is connected to me but i am ATTEMPTING to connect to him.
Ive been all over the forums so i went to my router and opened ports 6100 - 6200......and also i went into my impulseoptions and i tried to open the ports 6000 - 6200 like frogboy said but how am i suppose to do that when i can only go +20 from the starting port to the ending port?
I really hope you guys can fix this because i miss playing with my friends.
"Situation one: In a pantheon game. The NAT facilitator finds some players. I can open the "connection info" dialog. I see everyone connecting. Once the game has finished loading for me, I hear the "player has left" message once or twice. Situation two: In a pantheon game. The NAT facilitator finds some players. I can open the "connection info" dialog. Everyone connects to everyone, except one player who only connects to me. I decide to kick him after due time. I now have a game with all players all connected to each other. The game does not start. I stay at the same screen, nothing else changes."
"Situation one: In a pantheon game. The NAT facilitator finds some players. I can open the "connection info" dialog. I see everyone connecting. Once the game has finished loading for me, I hear the "player has left" message once or twice. Situation two:
"Situation one:
In a pantheon game. The NAT facilitator finds some players. I can open the "connection info" dialog. I see everyone connecting. Once the game has finished loading for me, I hear the "player has left" message once or twice.
In a pantheon game. The NAT facilitator finds some players. I can open the "connection info" dialog. Everyone connects to everyone, except one player who only connects to me. I decide to kick him after due time. I now have a game with all players all connected to each other. The game does not start. I stay at the same screen, nothing else changes."
this is the same for me always 1 player that cant connect stuffs it up or they are also whatching the connection info and if theres any delay they quit out
After last patch I couldn't connected to any internet game. Olways say "You have been disconnedcted because the muchmaking service has faild"
numitoros, I have exactly the same issue. With the new patch, I have been unable to connect to any online game, with the same message about the "matchmaking service has failed".
Well for me, I am completely unable to connect to anyone. Under the connection info box, it says that I keep attempting to connect to someone but it never ever happens. I have no clue how to forward my ports as I connect directly to a modem. I suck bad at these internet stuff so any help would be appreciated. I can't seem to find my IP correctly so I can't access my page on the browser to forward the ports.
I'm saying this all via custom games in multiplayer. The game is AWESOME in single player, but multiplayer seems broken for me. I can't join a game at all.
Edit: I am from Singapore and my ISP is Singnet. Some say the problem lies with my ISP. Does any dev or admin recall any problems with Singapore's ISP, Singnet? I feel really cheated because neither does multiplayer nor LAN work. And I can't get a refund. This sucks so bad.
Guys, save your time to do something else in life.
In several threads its mentioned that updates, launched on 14th & 15th before the weekend, killed multiplayer for a lot of people.
I would like to play again too
Dont waste hours of your time with router configs and re-installations or whatever...
Of cause, but if game likes you, and you can't use it well, it's obseting, isn't it? And may be admins of the game must to know that somethins still very wrong with their game.
Today falling of "sistem mathcmaking" is go on
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