No one playing multiplayer? [SOLVED]

[Ordinary Magician]

Make sure you're online in your steam friends list!

[BRIMStone]

idk, at first there were games in "close" and "region" but now only a few for region, but a ton in "world" so...idk man

[Beefnator]

patch fix broke multiplayer

[Maiorot]

I tried to hop on multiplayer... no one was playing.

[Fate (-{SoH}-)]

The multiplayer is terrible right now anyway unless ur on lan.
The "smart" building rarely works,
game freezes if u fire too many guns,
any ping over 100 gives u delayed responces to everything,
the communication system ingame is a mess.

atm it's a fun game but i think they need to fix multiplayer drasticly.

[EarthWork Games]

Make sure you are up to date by restarting Steam. You are probably running the old build so it is not showing incompatible hosts. -Tim

[Jack Rost]

How about add error window message that say "your game version is old"?

[Ordinary Magician]

Originally posted by EarthWork Games:

Make sure you are up to date by restarting Steam. You are probably running the old build so it is not showing incompatible hosts. -Tim

I did that and there's still no one.

[EarthWork Games]

Hi Jack, yes it has occurred to me, thanks for the suggestion.

Woof, I can see about 10 hosts up at the moment. Can you email me your log.txt file in Forts/users/<user>, to [e-mail]. Thanks!

[Mr.JakeyNuts]

What you have to do is Shift + Tab when you are at the multiplayer section and sign in by going to profile your welcome.

[Josef Bernstein | BigEll]

tbh, no wonder no one is playing it online-mp. Just bought the game, found ~8 games within the lobby. some un-joinable, others already "started" so that you can observe 'em playing only (wtf, why they're not filtered out?). If you finally find a lobby you'll be kicked out of the game 'coz "host connection lost" and thrown back to lobby. Out of 3 Games i finished one. I'm not wasting more time trying out, as steam won't refund me the game if i hit the 2 hour-mark.

Dont get me wrong, this game has a high potential, i like the MP idea of the game. Would be fun, competitive and great. But at current state, there's no real online-multiplayer.

May try this game out in a few months again, if they fix the multiplayer issues.

BTT: Yea, there are just a few players trying to play online-mp.

[EarthWork Games]

Hi Josef,

Thanks for the feedback, we appreciate this is frustrating.

We're working hard to fix these issues. Part of the problem is they are hard to reproduce consistently in a controlled environment, but we have made some progress today.

If you want to get a taste for how much fun multiplayer can be you might like to make a game with the Friends privacy setting and a player limit of 2 or 4, and then invite friends to play with you. Others won't be able to join a full lobby.

Until the desync issues are resolved we are going to make 'Lock Teams' to mean no-one can join after start, not even observers. This update will go out shortly.

Cheers,
Tim

[Ordinary Magician]

Originally posted by EarthWork Games:

Hi Jack, yes it has occurred to me, thanks for the suggestion.

Woof, I can see about 10 hosts up at the moment. Can you email me your log.txt file in Forts/users/<user>, to [e-mail]. Thanks!

Ok, I'm sorry for wasting your time, the reason I couldn't find games is because I wasn't online on my friends list for steam. Thanks for making a message for that!

[Tontow]

I can confirm, it is the friends list and not steam that needs to be online.......

Most, if not all games, check to see if steam is in online mode, but this game is checking the friends list instead..........

[EarthWork Games]

Thanks, I was using the wrong function. Fixed in 2017-04-24a.