Fix this annoying "Connecting DOTA 2 Game Coordinator"

[Yachiyo]

I am playing a match in an arcade and then suddenly it disconnects during the game. This red line thing appears then turned into bluish color and it says "Connecting to DOTA 2 Game Coordinator; Logging in".

I cannot reconnect no matter how many times I press reconnect button. If you abandon a match in this arcade, you will get penalties for leaving a match and MMR deductions. I check my network, it has stable internet connection of 4ms ping.

Such wow for a billion dollar company to create this UI/UX design in updating the game and ruins a player's matches. Thank you valve.

[UmbraAtrox]

It's Tuesday, There was that weekly update. This happens every Tuesday around the same time. Next Tuesday you will have this issue again at the exact same time.

[Yachiyo]

Originally posted by UmbraAtrox:

It's Tuesday, There was that weekly update. This happens every Tuesday around the same time. Next Tuesday you will have this issue again at the exact same time.

It's Wednesday here in timezone.... Even in-game. forcing to disconnect players and update the game? lol

[UmbraAtrox]

Originally posted by kekw:

It's Wednesday here in timezone....

That tends to happen with timeszones, what's your point?

Originally posted by kekw:

Even in-game. forcing to disconnect players and update the game? lol

"Never play on patchday" a rule as old as online-gaming itself.

At some point they have to restart the thing to apply the update, that's the case for probably everything that can be updated.

[Yachiyo]

Originally posted by UmbraAtrox:

Originally posted by kekw:

It's Wednesday here in timezone....

That tends to happen with timeszones, what's your point?

Originally posted by kekw:

Even in-game. forcing to disconnect players and update the game? lol

"Never play on patchday" a rule as old as online-gaming itself.

At some point they have to restart the thing to apply the update, that's the case for probably everything that can be updated.

Yes yes, as I said such wow UX design from a billion dollar company to force players abandon a match in-game just to update the game. Thanks for the clarification.

[UmbraAtrox]

Originally posted by kekw:

Yes yes, as I said such wow UX design from a billion dollar company to force players abandon a match in-game just to update the game. Thanks for the clarification.

How else would you make a service use the updated content without restarting it to reload the content? You can't expect them to run two versions in parallel during the updateperiod just so you can complete your match during weekly maintenance.

From all the things Valve is currently messing up, this isn't one of them.

[Yachiyo]

Originally posted by UmbraAtrox:

Originally posted by kekw:

Yes yes, as I said such wow UX design from a billion dollar company to force players abandon a match in-game just to update the game. Thanks for the clarification.

How else would you make a service use the updated content without restarting it to reload the content? You can't expect them to run two versions in parallel during the updateperiod just so you can complete your match during weekly maintenance.

From all the things Valve is currently messing up, this isn't one of them.

Yeah mate, how to update the game: force players to abandon a match while playing. Great idea, thanks. Are you a network engineer or game developer? You must be very knowledgeable to explain how things work in game development. Thank you

[UmbraAtrox]

Originally posted by kekw:

Yeah mate, how to update the game: force players to abandon a match while playing. Great idea, thanks. Are you a network engineer or game developer? You must be very knowledgeable to explain how things work in game development. Thank you

Actually i am a Mechatronics engineer, i program PLCs for multi-ton machines. And yes as a hobby i have a home server, automation, and do network crap.

You literally have to restart the module, service, or whatever the smallest part is that's been updated and can be restarted without disrupting other services that might rely on it. That inevitably will kill your match. Only thing you can do is to not play during maintenance, and now you know it's every week at about the timeframe you experienced issues today.

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lmao this is thursday and this just happened to me, what reason they gonna spittin' now