Anyone else have connection issues?

[SavageShark]

Is anybody else having serious online issues with multiplayer? Everytime I find a match it either:
1. Searches for new Host in mid game.
2. Loses internet connection with Steam during a match

[Lord Helheim]

its allways been like that for searching or waiting for host . steam have been going down alot lately . half the problem is the crap p2p insted of dedicated servers .

[Malidictus]

Yes, but P2P means the game's still playable even with THQ dead. If we had to rely on dedicated servers, those would have been shut down when the game was disowned.

But yes, host migration and connection issues are common, especially when playing with people from across the world. As for Steam... That's actually an issue with Steam itself. I believe Valve offer their own form of DRM to publishers who choose to use it, meaning it forces the game to look for a Steam connection at all time as proof that you own the game. When that connection fails, you're booted out of Multiplayer.

Steam goes down A LOT. Most of the time you don't notice it because the client itslef doesn't actually check all that often. Because Space Marine checks constantly, whenever Steam goes down, it'll catch that almost immediately and put even the Steam client in offline mode. Which is damn annoying, I'll say that much.

[steffenbk1]

Originally posted by Malidictus:

Yes, but P2P means the game's still playable even with THQ dead. If we had to rely on dedicated servers, those would have been shut down when the game was disowned.

But yes, host migration and connection issues are common, especially when playing with people from across the world. As for Steam... That's actually an issue with Steam itself. I believe Valve offer their own form of DRM to publishers who choose to use it, meaning it forces the game to look for a Steam connection at all time as proof that you own the game. When that connection fails, you're booted out of Multiplayer.

Steam goes down A LOT. Most of the time you don't notice it because the client itslef doesn't actually check all that often. Because Space Marine checks constantly, whenever Steam goes down, it'll catch that almost immediately and put even the Steam client in offline mode. Which is damn annoying, I'll say that much.

10 years later, still have this problem. Any way around this?

[Shrike]

Originally posted by steffenbk1:

10 years later, still have this problem. Any way around this?

Yes, The way around the connection issues will require you access your router control panel and then setup port forwarding, ports required for space marine are
TCP: 27015, 27036
UDP: 27015, 27031 to 27036
doing this is not really hard either just type 192.168.0.1 into a web browser address bar and press enter and that'll will take you to your routers control panel where you can setup port forwarding, just remember to set them properly for TCP or UDP, this really helps with the p2p connectivity issues.

[Tear My Soul 1]

To the last commenter, thank you so much man. Shrike's advice worked. I opened windows defender firewall and created a rule to open those ports for the game exe. It works flawless now. Or at least much better : )