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Multiplayer Problem [Freeze & Can't Load]

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12 years ago
Dec 30, 2012, 8:15:07 PM
Hello there.



I've read a few threads about multiplayer problems but none of them seem to describe the problem that myself and a few friends I play with have been having. I was hoping that in posting the problem here, someone might be able to turn around and tell me that it's just me being a tool and doing something wrong as opposed to something wrong with the game. So here goes.





We've played a few MP games now, ranging from 2 of us vs AI to 4 of us just on our own. Everything goes smoothly until fighting starts - eventually it'll get to the point where we're on the "end of turn in progress" part, but someone will still have "pending battles" at the bottom instead, even if they don't have any battles. From there the only way out is to Alt F4 because nothing else works. That's the first part of the issue.



Second part of the issue is that when we try to load ANY of the previous autosaves and rehost, it doesn't work. Everyone gets into the lobby but when we start the game the host is kicked back to the main menu whilst the rest wait in the loading screen until it times out. This is probably the main issue I have because if I could fix this then we can just continue our battles but at the moment we're unable to finish any of our games.



Any help and/or insight into this would be much appreciated.



Cheers.
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12 years ago
Dec 31, 2012, 9:45:26 AM
Hi Lloydski,



Can you send me one of your MP save that doesn't load correctly so I can take a look at it.

Thanks.



Hef.
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12 years ago
Dec 31, 2012, 11:12:36 AM
Tanks, it seems 2 of your heroes are assigned on fleets that doesn't exist anymore.

I'll look deeper into it by the end of the week.
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12 years ago
Jan 2, 2013, 7:54:20 AM
Hi Folks - A friend and I have the same issues with MP. ES is such a good game, it feels like a kick in the teeth to invest 6 to 8 hours in an epic game, only to have it crash and freeze once empires go to war and the fights and battles become really fun to watch. We save it often so we can roll back, but can't continue after various freezes have forced us to replay several turns.



We like watching the battles on manual, but worry this sometimes seems to mean your unable to react to other fights. We began a gentlemans agreement to alert the other person that a fight was about to start. You could argue this simulates you only having so much attention in fights and I'd agree in a RTS, but it feels very wrong in a turn-based game.



Love your work though, please give us some MP fixes soon!
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12 years ago
Jan 2, 2013, 9:03:55 PM
Venomztryke wrote:
Hi Folks - A friend and I have the same issues with MP. ES is such a good game, it feels like a kick in the teeth to invest 6 to 8 hours in an epic game, only to have it crash and freeze once empires go to war and the fights and battles become really fun to watch. We save it often so we can roll back, but can't continue after various freezes have forced us to replay several turns.



We like watching the battles on manual, but worry this sometimes seems to mean your unable to react to other fights. We began a gentlemans agreement to alert the other person that a fight was about to start. You could argue this simulates you only having so much attention in fights and I'd agree in a RTS, but it feels very wrong in a turn-based game.



Love your work though, please give us some MP fixes soon!




Ah you're lucky in that respect... We can't even roll back. All previous saves have the same problem =[
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12 years ago
Jan 3, 2013, 11:33:07 AM
The bug has been fixed this morning, it'll be released in the next patch.



Hef.
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12 years ago
Jan 3, 2013, 2:30:30 PM
Ah brilliant! Any estimate on when the patch will be released? Have to say this is the best support I've ever experienced with a game.



Thanks.
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