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[Scout Derek]

As title States, how has your connection to the game been?

I ask because I've been noticing from friends and a few others I've talked to, both on this game and a few others, that there's been an increasingly amount of disconnecting and whatnot- I've experienced it too.

One reason I may have is when we got the spambots to stop spamming by changing the req. for posting, which was to play one game in-game. That may or may not have made them angry since we just negated what they can do, which may lead to something a bit worse, which could involve slowing or shifting out the site completely, it redirecting to a malicious site or spam.


I would ask the guys up above but they're not here right now, so I wanted to ask you guys about it.

[Naelbis]

Connection to the game has been fine. Teams on the other hand.....

[dervishx5]

What kinda timeframe are you talking? Couple of days? Right before?

[AnTi90d]

Since the last patch, I've seen some people disconnect and crash more often than they used to.. and I, myself, have experienced this. (I even sent PGI my 18mb crash-log file.)

I played last night, both before and after the website crash, and I didn't notice a difference between last night and any other (after the last patch.)

[The Rogue Wolf]

From the handful of matches I played today, I saw nothing different from the norm.

[JonDunbar]

I've had horrible connection issues today. I've been disconnected multiple times from the game server. When I try to get back into the match I can't seem to get a connection. If I launch a testing grounds match, quit match and try to reconnect to my previous quick match I can get in. Aside from that I have had very bad rubberbanding/warping in the last hour with a ~50ms ping.

[C E Dwyer]

Games been very stable with a low ping for Euro/NA servers oceanic has always been bad at around 300.

If anything i'd say my ping on NA servers has been slightly better since the website went down, as I've had sub 90 ping

[DaZur]

N. America here: Games were rock solid in all server nodes. Website was hard-lock...

[El Bandito]

I played a lot of FW during the forum freeze. The connection was fine.

[Scout Derek]

Hmm, so it's 2/3rds fine, 1/3rd not okay.

Something's running amok, and I don't think PGI is at fault for so.


I'm going to try and do some research on this, as earlier today I skimmed a bit and hear that more than 50% of any company has been infiltrated or shut down in either a part of their database, or the server overall.

... stupid spambots.

[CMDR Sunset Shimmer]

Procurator Derek, on 10 July 2016 - 03:40 PM, said:

As title States, how has your connection to the game been?

I ask because I've been noticing from friends and a few others I've talked to, both on this game and a few others, that there's been an increasingly amount of disconnecting and whatnot- I've experienced it too.

One reason I may have is when we got the spambots to stop spamming by changing the req. for posting, which was to play one game in-game. That may or may not have made them angry since we just negated what they can do, which may lead to something a bit worse, which could involve slowing or shifting out the site completely, it redirecting to a malicious site or spam.


I would ask the guys up above but they're not here right now, so I wanted to ask you guys about it.

Starting back around a month ago, I've seen a jump in ping from aproximately 87 back then, up to 110 - 120 on average to NA servers now.

Not sure what changed, but the connection's been less than stable for about a month now.

[BigJim]

Connection to the game has been abysmal - for over a week, I've been unable to get a single game, because it disconnected every single time.

Each time, it was during the map loading screen, dumping me back to the mechlab (from both US and Euro game servers).
Support were spectacularly unable to help.

It came totally out of the blue - never had a problem with MWO before (except back in early closed beta days, when everyone and his dog had problems), and no system changes had been made on my end, so no idea why it's been happening...

In the end I completely reformatted my C drive and reinstalled from scratch, so let's see if this helps matters!

Edited by BigJim, 10 July 2016 - 11:57 PM.

[Navid A1]

I disconnect way more since last night.

[kesmai]

Disco's and crashes are happening.
A year ago I had a more stable client till the last patch of October '15.
The game is not alt-tab friendly, windows mode or not.
And alt tabbing is a must when waiting for 5 or more minutes for a fw match...


Edit:
Another strange ocurance of crashes is the following situation.
You are in a fw premade and several of your group start typing something in faction chat -> crash for those that are in faction chat. Not a common bug, but it can be replicated.

Edited by ARP Haruna, 11 July 2016 - 01:11 AM.

[Lily from animove]

game connection seemed fine form germany, only forum wasn't working.

Not sure if related, matchmakingtimes felt like taking longer than usual. Game only crashed dring the "exit" of the game and seemed to be able to send the error report.

Edited by Lily from animove, 11 July 2016 - 01:14 AM.

[Moira]

Hello.

Its been "up and down", without clear reason why. I have had alot more DC's and unable to get back inside 5-7mins, but most of the time I nowadays DC while waiting the match clock to hit 0 than in the screen where to power up my mech. Yup aint ideal, but its new to me.... I tend to keep "networkwatcher" program open to see what hangs up and while DC'd so I can fastly check if its my own connection or not.

I do live in Finland with 100MB line (yup I got upgrades and this is all mine now) so some DC's can be explained by simple things. Well atleast Finland aint as badly bottle necked than UK area.

[Stone Wall]

Used to have a solid connection, but the past month my ping from 50 ms shoots up to 1000 ms and down.

[Mudhutwarrior]

Disruptions are the norm these days from ever increasing attacks. That and in many areas 4g and 3g have pushed fiber capacity to its limits.

Check Norse or the several other attack map sites when you have disruptions. You may be surprised to find correlation.

[BigJim]

Just to update my post above - even with a completely fresh system (only MWO, a browser, and my hardware drivers installed) I'm still getting booted from every match, at the map loading screen stage.

Something is seriously screwed up with MWO...

Edited by BigJim, 11 July 2016 - 05:10 AM.

[Brandarr Gunnarson]

During the FP event I got a lot of disconnects, and I mean a lot. But I live in China, so it may have been routing to NA server for FP matches.

However, during the forum blackout I also had trouble with DCs; even when only playing on Oceanic. But more than that, I have had major issues with hitreg since then (as in, it appears I hit but the reticle doesn't turn red) as well as seeing other players rubberband (though I never appear to to myself).

Those something I never had problems with before, even when my ping was high. Don't know what the issue is.