Sync Error

[Daym Dat Booty]

Has the sync error been fixed?
It plagued aom way back when... and it still plagues voobly today.
Greatly screws over rated if it has not been addressed.

[The Wolf Steel]

Seems like it won't, because all games in multiplayer are P2P, no dedicated servers.

[leg]

Sync error happens when someone for example hacks their resources or something is changed on their side which is different from the other players. For example, if you editted your unit stats it would compare with the game's files and the other users, and any differences will cause it to out of sync. It isn't really an error. It only occurs immediately at the game's start if its an actual mod or file error, which is pretty impossible without modding and replacing files, or if a player does it onpurpose to either try it or try to preserve their rank by ending it pre-emptively. It is a good measure to ensure there is absolutely no cheaters or differences in modding while playing. However, I would like to see something like the modder just drops from the game instead of Out of Sync and exits the game for everything, because then they would lose and no one would let that player play until they fix their game. It only happens on places like Voobly because there's only like 200 guatemalan kids there who only play unbalanced games and try really hard to get ranks, amongst a bunch of nerdy smurfs who are pros that play the game daily.. imo I want to wait for the steam community to start playing again and see some new players.

[Kelsier]

One of my biggest reservations about online play is the cheating that used to go on, OOS was the most common by far, and very frustrating to play against. It will be very unfortunate if the game is as plagued as it used to be with this problem.

[crzyclarks]

I remember a frequent error on scenario games in which everybody starts as normal except they are on their own.

[[FOLL] Gatech]

Originally posted by ES Leg:

Sync error happens when someone for example hacks their resources or something is changed on their side which is different from the other players. For example, if you editted your unit stats it would compare with the game's files and the other users, and any differences will cause it to out of sync. It isn't really an error. It only occurs immediately at the game's start if its an actual mod or file error, which is pretty impossible without modding and replacing files, or if a player does it onpurpose to either try it or try to preserve their rank by ending it pre-emptively. It is a good measure to ensure there is absolutely no cheaters or differences in modding while playing. However, I would like to see something like the modder just drops from the game instead of Out of Sync and exits the game for everything, because then they would lose and no one would let that player play until they fix their game. It only happens on places like Voobly because there's only like 200 guatemalan kids there who only play unbalanced games and try really hard to get ranks, amongst a bunch of nerdy smurfs who are pros that play the game daily.. imo I want to wait for the steam community to start playing again and see some new players.

NOT ONLY.

If one player Alt+F4 his game, you can get Sync error... :S
Also when 2 players do that thing at the same time... game freezes!