This game's server's are garbage

[Burnt Sausage]

I'm convinced this game's multiplayer servers are held together by popsicle sticks and silly string. I'm constantly disconnected from friends playing the game midway through an area or boss and half the time invasions are cut short, and the other half of the time, my summon sign cannot be seen. Frankly this is unacceptable in a game like this. I play solo most of the time but multiplayer is always a gamble of how long the servers can hold it together before disconnecting me.

[why are we here? just to suffer?]

Originally posted by Burnt Sausage:

I'm convinced this game's multiplayer servers are held together by popsicle sticks and silly string. I'm constantly disconnected from friends playing the game midway through an area or boss and half the time invasions are cut short, and the other half of the time, my summon sign cannot be seen. Frankly this is unacceptable in a game like this. I play solo most of the time but multiplayer is always a gamble of how long the servers can hold it together before disconnecting me.

popsickle sticks ONCE LICKED

extra speed

[Crossaber]

Last night i helped a pal challenge Godfrey, over 10 tries i got the disconnected error at the start of phase2. My pal can’t solo him thats why he asked for help. If i don’t error out we beat him on first try.

Their server really sucks.

[Argonaut]

Originally posted by Burnt Sausage:

I'm convinced this game's multiplayer servers are held together by popsicle sticks and silly string. I'm constantly disconnected from friends playing the game midway through an area or boss and half the time invasions are cut short, and the other half of the time, my summon sign cannot be seen. Frankly this is unacceptable in a game like this. I play solo most of the time but multiplayer is always a gamble of how long the servers can hold it together before disconnecting me.

I live in South Africa, the country whose DSL was defeated by a pidgeon with a USB stick tied to it in a cross country information race. I get sub 100ms playing online and the only time I see connection error is when someone is playing on an absolute toaster or ALT+F4s.

How on earth, literally, are you having a worse experience than me? For reference when I tried to play Tarkov I had about 300ms.

[Nydus]

He's right saying its player to player once someone has joined, I think one of the biggest issues is they have a tiny margain for ping, which if a player is out with that margain they get kicked

[Don Lobo]

Originally posted by csand:

Servers matchmake and provide signs/messages/bloodstains, everything after that is p2p

^This

[Witcher]

I hope FS will fix this before they stop patching (or nerf more). I have played solo pretty much twice now, and would like to help other players with bosses and try out different weapons/builds.

Edit: Was helping players last night and lost connection 3-4 times midway thru the fights.

[♔V3RD1CT]

They are not great no, but not bad considering this game is played all over the world.

[Fishercat]

Too many people use wifi to game on.

[Ancient]

The MP (co-op or PVP) is P2P, so if you think the servers suck, then it's because you or your friend's internet sucks. The "servers" are just connecting you together and then letting one of you host and the others act as clients to that host. Beyond that, the game's servers have nothing to do with the connection.

The game is just connecting you. After that it's like any other P2P game and depends on the user's connections to function in actual gameplay.

Check firewalls etc. and make sure there isn't something on one of your ends causing the issue. Like most games, you need to have your router opened up if you're going to host a game.

[Witcher]

Whilst players' internet bandwdith/speed is a factor, the game's mechanism that enables multiplayer in the same instance is also a key factor.

[Yung Venuz]

So then there isn't anything a player can do to fix this issue apart from being closer to the person they are tying to play with or getting better internet? that's pretty ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[Disly]

Originally posted by Ancient:

The MP (co-op or PVP) is P2P, so if you think the servers suck, then it's because you or your friend's internet sucks. The "servers" are just connecting you together and then letting one of you host and the others act as clients to that host. Beyond that, the game's servers have nothing to do with the connection.

The game is just connecting you. After that it's like any other P2P game and depends on the user's connections to function in actual gameplay.

Check firewalls etc. and make sure there isn't something on one of your ends causing the issue. Like most games, you need to have your router opened up if you're going to host a game.

Yeah. Drops every 2 minutes. Always. It's definitely the internet's fault. Oh wait, but before the patch, I did not disconnect. Your advice is ♥♥♥♥

[楊玄。杨玄。LangrisserWWE]

Steam cloud is ♥♥♥♥.

[Toad]

Originally posted by Disly:

Yeah. Drops every 2 minutes. Always. It's definitely the internet's fault. Oh wait, but before the patch, I did not disconnect. Your advice is ♥♥♥♥

Someone pointed out to me once that EAC checks your connection every two minutes or so, and if there is too much packet loss, or latency etc, it drops the connection. I don't know about the technical side, but I timed the two minute thing and it absolutely lined up.

[Disly]

Originally posted by Toad:

Someone pointed out to me once that EAC checks your connection every two minutes or so, and if there is too much packet loss, or latency etc, it drops the connection. I don't know about the technical side, but I timed the two minute thing and it absolutely lined up.

Yes. This is true. With my friend ping about 100. There was no disconnection before patch 1.04