Join error Could not connect to server

[Keverisch]

I was playing Hammerwatch online yesterday for several hours without an issue.
Today, I cannot connect to the same person as yesterday. I get the above error.

I can connect to some other people's games. The easy way to tell if I can connect is that when I refresh the Browse page, the ones that I can connect to have ping response times listed and the people who do no, I cannot.

We are both very technical, though not by trade, and we spect three hours fiddling with router settings up to and including both using DMZ. We both have Port 9995 forwarded. We are also connect to eachother using hamachi, but we also tried without Hamachi on.

Bottom line, we tried everything that we could think of, and everything listed thusfar on the forums.

Does anyone have any more ideas?

Thanks,

Keverisch

P.S. This game is fantastic.

[Chief]

This has been an ongoing issue since release. One of the threads here was talking about Hamachi so try to find it if you haven't already. As for a fix, it seems like time is the best solution for now. This has definitely been the biggest problem with the game so I'm sure the devs have been working on it.

[tugglebutt]

100% same problem for me (including the "working one day, not the next" thing).

P.S Also agree that the game is fantastic.

[Keverisch]

Originally posted by Chief:

This has been an ongoing issue since release. One of the threads here was talking about Hamachi so try to find it if you haven't already. As for a fix, it seems like time is the best solution for now. This has definitely been the biggest problem with the game so I'm sure the devs have been working on it.

Hi Chief,

Even with Hamachi, I haven't been successful.

[Chief]

Originally posted by keverisch:

Even with Hamachi, I haven't been successful.

Hamachi seems to be hit or miss with this game.

[Flea Market Montgomery]

If you can navigate to your router's page that most closely resembles this one: http://i.imgur.com/0NKNyQ3.jpg

and enter the first line (the other lines are unrelated) as I have, but with your computer's assigned address instead of 192.168.0.10 it should work fine. The key is to forward port 9995 from your router to port 9995 on your actual computer.

I've tried helping people with this, with some success, and it seems the part where most people run into trouble is entering the incorrect IP address. Many enter the address that they see in the lobby they create. This is not correct. That is the IP address of your cable modem. You need the address that your router assigns your computer.

Navigate to a page like this http://imgur.com/pIiU2D3.jpg where you can see a list of assigned IP addresses in your router and find the one that assigned to the computer you play Hammerwatch on.

You can also find your assigned address pressing windows key + R , typing cmd, hitting enter, typing netstat, hitting enter and looking at the column "local address":

http://imgur.com/UVABCrz.jpg

Hopefully this helps you or anyone else. Apparently future updates will bring about changes that make it so port forwarding is no longer required. Until then, try this and ask me if you encounter trouble trying this.

[Keverisch]

Hello Flea Market Montgomery,

I appreciate your assistance, however all of what you described below was already tried rigorously. I used my specific PC address, etc.

When trying this again several days after my original post, connecting to my friend's IP still wasn't working, but on a whim I tried his Hamachi IP address and it worked.

Bottom line, sometimes the game just doesn't want to cooperate. I can sympathize and do not bear any ill opinions for it.

When it works, it's fantastic, when it doesn't, oh well, we'll play something else.

Thanks,

Keverisch

Originally posted by Flea Market Montgomery:

If you can navigate to your router's page that most closely resembles this one: http://i.imgur.com/0NKNyQ3.jpg

and enter the first line (the other lines are unrelated) as I have, but with your computer's assigned address instead of 192.168.0.10 it should work fine. The key is to forward port 9995 from your router to port 9995 on your actual computer.

I've tried helping people with this, with some success, and it seems the part where most people run into trouble is entering the incorrect IP address. Many enter the address that they see in the lobby they create. This is not correct. That is the IP address of your cable modem. You need the address that your router assigns your computer.

Navigate to a page like this http://imgur.com/pIiU2D3.jpg where you can see a list of assigned IP addresses in your router and find the one that assigned to the computer you play Hammerwatch on.

You can also find your assigned address pressing windows key + R , typing cmd, hitting enter, typing netstat, hitting enter and looking at the column "local address":

http://imgur.com/UVABCrz.jpg

Hopefully this helps you or anyone else. Apparently future updates will bring about changes that make it so port forwarding is no longer required. Until then, try this and ask me if you encounter trouble trying this.

[Kavex]

Make sure you open port 9995.

Only time you can join someone is if they have a player count listed and haven't started the game. Hopefully in the future upgrades it will be easier to tell if a game has started.

[Totally Frozen]

Starting and connecting to a new game prior to loading and connecting to our unfinished game might have solved the issue for me and my friends.

We also did port forwarding, set a static IP for the server, updated the router and tried both wired and wireless connections.

Hope this helps.