Disconnects, slow loading, poor loading processes, crashes, and the game just refusing to work...

[Macdallan]

I've been getting frequent disconnects since I bought this game and I'm getting absolutely sick of them. One of the biggest reasons it's getting old, and fast, is due to the way the game constantly loads you back and forth between the pre-game "lobby" and actually joining or being in the match if you disconnect and try to reconnect. I am very tired of the game loading so frequently because it's not only too slow but it happens way too often and it's unnecessary. They could have done a much better job with the reconnect function and the way the game loads. I'm aware that someone made a mod to address some of the caching and loading issues so why hasn't the developer bothered to fix the problem yet?

Anyway, when you get disconnected there is no reason why you should need to fully load back in to the pre-match lobby/ship before trying to reconnect. Just leave everything frigging loaded in memory and let me try to reconnect right away. The way they've coded this hurts my head. What they've done is set things up so you have to load fully back into the ship before it lets you try to reconnect and then it re-loads everything that was already loaded... but if the reconnect fails it loads you back into the ship again before it asks you to reconnect again. It's just a broken, backwards way to do things. I learned pretty quickly not to bother trying to reconnect because it almost always fails even if you try it multiple times (and that means sitting through loading screens 2 times every single time you try) it's faster to decline the reconnect and just load in once so you can go find a new match.

I also just had the game basically freeze and refuse to work, had to ALT-F4. Re-loaded the game and Just had crash tonight and I have not been able to successfully get into a single match. Not one - and I'm getting sick of trying. I've been trying to play the game for over an hour and haven't been able to get into a match yet. Hopefully the next attempt will be successful but, honestly, there's no reason for it to be this much of a headache.

[SamEstine]

What are your specs and which version of windows?

Are you using cabled connection or Wifi?

[Macdallan]

Originally posted by SamEstine:

What are your specs and which version of windows?

Are you using cabled connection or Wifi?

Specs mostly exceed the minimums.

Win 10 with all the latest updates/upgrades.

Cabled, no gamer in their right mind tries gaming over wireless...

[SamEstine]

Originally posted by Macdallan:

Cabled, no gamer in their right mind tries gaming over wireless...

You'd be surprised.

I agree, the whole thing is asinine but that's how it was in Vermintide 2 as well. Load the keep, then load into map, finish map then load out of map back into the keep.

Other than that mod that can help with caching, having the game on an SSD helps tremendously with load times.

Unfortunately as technology has advanced, devs have become way lazier in optimizing their games. Slow load? Just get an SSD it's the standard. Poor FPS? Just buy a better GPU / CPU.

The only thing I'd try in your situation for those disconnects is to try and use a VPN such as ExitLag (optimized for games), and see if the rerouting helps you keep your connections alive long enough to enjoy a match or two without losing mental sanity.

[Macdallan]

I wouldn't care about the disconnect issue as much if there weren't long loads on both ends of the reconnect option, even if I don't try reconnecting I still have to run back to the mission terminal then re-join a mission, then hope it doesn't decide to disconnect me again and make me sit through multiple loading screens.

[MaikElPipas]

servers have been a show since the update.....hordes moonwalkig everywhere, looks like "thriller" music video.

[Wingnut Mcmoomoo]

Originally posted by Macdallan:

Originally posted by SamEstine:

What are your specs and which version of windows?

Are you using cabled connection or Wifi?

Specs mostly exceed the minimums.

Win 10 with all the latest updates/upgrades.

Cabled, no gamer in their right mind tries gaming over wireless...

when you say, mostly exceeds... do you mean that there are parts of your system that do not meet or exceed the minimum?

[MiniMoose]

Did it help with a SSD?

[Macdallan]

Originally posted by MiniMoose:

Did it help with a SSD?

Putting it on a SSD helps slightly with loading times but does absolutely nothing to help the disconnects - but I didn't expect it to help with disconnects (nor should it).

[MiniMoose]

Ok, SSD helped a lot for me. Thought I had it on SSD, but did not until now. Yay..
Disconnects never happens almost with me. Probabmy only happened 2 times the year I've been playing 🤷‍♂️

[Niju]

Originally posted by Macdallan:

Anyway, when you get disconnected there is no reason why you should need to fully load back in to the pre-match lobby/ship before trying to reconnect. Just leave everything frigging loaded in memory and let me try to reconnect right away. The way they've coded this hurts my head.

That would leave options open to modify the RAM.
Heck, the game even crashed on me while I was opening Discord during the ship-loadingscreen. Good old Easy-Anticheat, I swear.

[Shotgun Solutions]

Originally posted by El_pipitas:

servers have been a show since the update.....hordes moonwalkig everywhere, looks like "thriller" music video.

OK so I'm not going crazy. I had a zealot player moonwalking towards me in the hall and thought for sure he'd fallen to chaos lol.

[Distance Of Shadows]

I think it might be the servers and big spike increase in new players after the new update. Yesterday when I tried to play Darktide there was a Queue number

[Judge Fudge]

i feel like this game hates me it takes upwards of 10 minutes to just get to the mourningstar and then 9/10 when i try to play a game it crashes. so weird because it worked fine in beta but has been like this since release.

[Macdallan]

Originally posted by Judge Fudge:

i feel like this game hates me it takes upwards of 10 minutes to just get to the mourningstar and then 9/10 when i try to play a game it crashes. so weird because it worked fine in beta but has been like this since release.

I got so sick of all the reloading due to disconnects and other issues that I stopped playing. Hopefully one of the recent patches, or an upcoming patch, will solve all of those issues so I can actually play the game I purchased...

[Jeztur]

Originally posted by Judge Fudge:

i feel like this game hates me it takes upwards of 10 minutes to just get to the mourningstar and then 9/10 when i try to play a game it crashes. so weird because it worked fine in beta but has been like this since release.

Lmfao! This!