DESYNCING ANNOYANCE

[Unpopular Monster]

We keep getting an error that says Game state has desynced and its getting worse. Whats going on?

[Mr.McDuck]

Fixing desyncs is one of our highest priorities and we're already working on it.

If there is any specific action that causes a desync please let us know.

[m4rcus]

so what you are saying is the game isnt really playeble in online coop right now?

[Zukabazuka]

Originally posted by m4rcus:

so what you are saying is the game isnt really playeble in online coop right now?

It is fully playable for me and my brother, just sometimes we fall through the floor but it doesn't do much because we are teleported to the top side when falling for 5-10 seconds.

[Dreepa]

Originally posted by m4rcus:

so what you are saying is the game isnt really playeble in online coop right now?

So far, no issues here.

I guess there are some specific circumstancs that can cause desyncs. But I haven't encountered them.

Bugs in early access are to be expected.

[Von Drakin]

Building blocks are the biggest culprit. Every now and then i'll place them down and it'll drop to desync right away. also have experienced it with connecting power, but far less frequently. We found a server restart helped to prevent desync errors.

[Unpopular Monster]

Originally posted by Mr.McDuck:

Fixing desyncs is one of our highest priorities and we're already working on it.

If there is any specific action that causes a desync please let us know.

I'm unsure what caused it, We have several people playing and it was happening every few minutes to us all except the host, thankfully this game is quick to reload into. We all played for several hours last night without issue that we couldnt solve by passing around the save file until it liked one of us for a host lol

[Kazar [GWJ]]

I have noticed desync happening when a large set of changes happen all at once. Like placing down 100 basic blocks in one operation.

[Dreepa]

I just started getting desnc issues that are related to fluidboxes every time I join our dedicated server.

[NeonBlauerWolf]

We played as a squad of three. one hosted and 2 teammates. We also had desyncs. The funny thing is it only affected 1 person. (weaker PC setup) maybe that is also a cause and yes, there was a lot of construction going on at that time.

[m4rcus]

Originally posted by NeonBlauerWolf:

We played as a squad of three. one hosted and 2 teammates.

you sure it wasnt 2 hosted and one teammate?

[Sweetalker®]

I've sent a lot of feedback about server Connection Lost and Desyncing in the last 7 days, or whenever the Hotfix was. Never had the issues till the hotfix. I have spoken to a few people. We have narrowed the desyncing down to Steam server issues with save files/ticks. When a host enters his/her game as a host, we believe that that game state is what you would download when entering, meaning that you would no have the latest tick/ saved progress. Which would put you out of sync or a connection loss. I don't think it has anything to do with anyone elses computers or internet. I think it has to do with the server sending and receiving files. But this is just an opinion from a few of my friends and myself. so far I have only been able to connect to a hosted server twice in the last 7 days. saving the file under a new same game name seems to force the server to desync instead of connection lost, usually you can recover your game status after the desync has caught up on its 20K or whatever ticks.I realize this game is in EA but at this point with so many other games out there, this should not be an issue.

[Unpopular Monster]

Originally posted by Sweetalker®:

I've sent a lot of feedback about server Connection Lost and Desyncing in the last 7 days, or whenever the Hotfix was. Never had the issues till the hotfix. I have spoken to a few people. We have narrowed the desyncing down to Steam server issues with save files/ticks. When a host enters his/her game as a host, we believe that that game state is what you would download when entering, meaning that you would no have the latest tick/ saved progress. Which would put you out of sync or a connection loss. I don't think it has anything to do with anyone elses computers or internet. I think it has to do with the server sending and receiving files. But this is just an opinion from a few of my friends and myself. so far I have only been able to connect to a hosted server twice in the last 7 days. saving the file under a new same game name seems to force the server to desync instead of connection lost, usually you can recover your game status after the desync has caught up on its 20K or whatever ticks.I realize this game is in EA but at this point with so many other games out there, this should not be an issue.

When it starts happening its best to have the host reload the game, that has always seemed to stop the issue for us.

[martin-s]

In the meantime, the Desic comes directly when connecting to the rented server only a restart provides a remedy

[Daekock]

I got the desync every time i build a cargo ramp. I play on a privetserver in the some network as my PC

Originally posted by Mr.McDuck:

Fixing desyncs is one of our highest priorities and we're already working on it.

If there is any specific action that causes a desync please let us know.

[Sweetalker®]

Originally posted by Unpopular Monster:

Originally posted by Sweetalker®:

I've sent a lot of feedback about server Connection Lost and Desyncing in the last 7 days, or whenever the Hotfix was. Never had the issues till the hotfix. I have spoken to a few people. We have narrowed the desyncing down to Steam server issues with save files/ticks. When a host enters his/her game as a host, we believe that that game state is what you would download when entering, meaning that you would no have the latest tick/ saved progress. Which would put you out of sync or a connection loss. I don't think it has anything to do with anyone elses computers or internet. I think it has to do with the server sending and receiving files. But this is just an opinion from a few of my friends and myself. so far I have only been able to connect to a hosted server twice in the last 7 days. saving the file under a new same game name seems to force the server to desync instead of connection lost, usually you can recover your game status after the desync has caught up on its 20K or whatever ticks.I realize this game is in EA but at this point with so many other games out there, this should not be an issue.

When it starts happening its best to have the host reload the game, that has always seemed to stop the issue for us.

We Restart the server every 5 hours because this is a known issue, and still it does not help. There is something wrong between the save files and the server. what it saves and what it receives. downloading 20K ticks after a desync because the server does not update itself to the latest game state is the issue. When you load into the server, you are downloading the Hosts save game when they first started, not what the game has auto saved or updated since. That right there is the cause of Desync issues. I am not the only one with this problem on Reg hosted servers. It's happening everywhere and to everyone. I posted this because its important. 7 other people I play with now have the same issue plus many more I can see on the Discord server in the bug reports. I know the Dev team is working on it. I've been told that personally by one. I'm just saying that if anyone else is getting frustrated like myself and my friends, this is the cause. I'm 99% sure of it.