Why MHW PC still has connection problems?

[Braiven]

Why MHW PC still has connection problems when playing in multiplayer? I get a disconnect 1-3 times every day and my friends as well. Capcoms fail?

[Sadness]

Try to playing with windowed mode and don't use steam overlay too often that's how i fixed mine when i got this issued

Edit: also check your internet connection as well, using alt+tab to switch between game and pc desktop also can trigger this prob

[CourtesyFlush09]

Beats me. I have a great internet connection and I still have the problem. Luckily it's not too common rn, so I can deal with it.

[NNN]

It's your thing, I haven't had any problems at all.

[Stim Addict]

been a month since I had a DC except for when I tab out

[Xilo The Odd]

your personal network, your geographical location, your cities level of broadband and fiber services, and the people you connect to, all affect stability. capcom has opened the range as it were, of when to just disconnect a session due to latency and connection issues between peers.

now we get monsters that derp run into a wall for 30 seconds while someones internet connection tries to sync up and failing over and over again resulting in a DC anyway and the monster rubberbanding back to where it was and doing something different.

[JPM岩]

Because Steam's servers arent the greatest at times

[cruste]

3 words: peer to peer

[argenex]

It's not your connection.

Every time I see it disconnect I can clearly see my network is fine, on the 4 other devices I have sitting next to me as well as on another moniter.

The game has some sort of weird issue, it may be that it has a latency or loss cap in it and it just decides you are offline, when you aren't, and that's what causes the DC in-game.

(Sadly we can't look at lobbies and people to play with via region or even latency, like a normal game, and choose the lobby that is best for us.)

Its a common issue that hasn't really ever been resolved, and many people have posted about it here, on reddit, and at capcom.

What they should have done, when they patched it months ago, was also add a ping limit counter that we could chose. However even playing with friends I have played with for 10 plus years in other games that are also peer to peer, MHW still will randomly drop one of us.

One can only hope that now that MHW is thier best selling title, that they might actually look into finally resolving it. I doubt it however.

[WAVΞ]

Some people got the problem solved and some are still not. its a common thing..hopefully they try to fix the issue again

[Warkrunner]

If you don't want to DC on PC - stop minimizing the game, and use a LAN connection.
Don't even Shift + Tab.
After the patches, I found this was the culprit.
I just use a 3rd party voice chat, like Discord, to talk with friends while playing.

I haven't disconnected once in the past 3 months - and I have an Indonesian internet connection.
Food for thought.

[The Chubby Cat]

My internet is pretty weak, but i barely getting d/c, mostly when steam is maintaining

[Loxly]

meanwhile, i have unstable potato 10mbps internet speed which will easily get worse depends on the weather. DC'ed only once in a while, not even sure whose fault. might be the host or my own connection, cz mine does RTO sometimes

[Pain]

don't shift tab, that triggers the pDC's usually.

[_Synt3rax_]

Originally posted by Warkrunner:

If you don't want to DC on PC - stop minimizing the game, and use a LAN connection.
Don't even Shift + Tab.
After the patches, I found this was the culprit.
I just use a 3rd party voice chat, like Discord, to talk with friends while playing.

I haven't disconnected once in the past 3 months - and I have an Indonesian internet connection.
Food for thought.

i use LAN,dissabled the steam overlay,never alt+tab,have a very good connection and a low ping,yet when ever i try to join a low populated lobby i get the offline crap nearly every time,i search for a new lobby? game puts me in offline mode before even searching

[Warkrunner]

Originally posted by _Synt3rax_:

i use LAN,dissabled the steam overlay,never alt+tab,have a very good connection and a low ping,yet when ever i try to join a low populated lobby i get the offline crap nearly every time,i search for a new lobby? game puts me in offline mode before even searching

Ah, that's normal. Try looking for server names with people that may be from your region.
It's a latency thing.
If you're from Brazil trying to connect to someone from Japan, you're going to have a bad time.
Alternatively, just host your own and let people join you.