Unable to play multiplayer games

from Demigod Forums

I'd like to add my name to the list of people who are completely unable to play multiplayer games. I downloaded PFPortChecker, used ImpulseReactorOptions to change my used ports to 7112-7132, forwarded 7100-7200 and 6073, both UDP and TCP to my comp, used PFPortChecker to check all those ports and ensure they're open. I've disabled the Windows Firewall and I am still unable to join a single multiplayer game. If I use the automatch, it most of the time flashes that it's trying to connect to a game, and then goes back to searching (Previous to the patch, it would always try to connect, then would fail to match up with everyone in the game).

If I go to custom games, 99% of them will say, "Attempt to join game failed", the other 1% just sit there on the connection screen.

I've been trying consistently over the last few days, and have spent hours on this. Considering the game has basically no singleplayer except practice for multiplayer this is sort of crippling.

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Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

Identical. No fix. Look in the technical support board for info there are threads regarding this.

 

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Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

Same problem, actually. The couple of games I have actually been able to get into (two through Skirmish, one through Pantheon) had pretty terrible lag spikes going on. At this point, I'd just wait until next week to see if it gets resolved.

Reply #4 from Demigod Forums Top

Same for me .... as are others i know who have this game. I've never known a P2P RTS game to be so much trouble as Demigod is. It is such a shame as the gameplay is great fun, but the custom game lobby is laggy and prone to long pauses and if you are lucky to get into a game lobby it takes ages to get enough people in, and even then you can have issues where it wont let you start because people are not connected to each other. Even when it allows you to start, you will most likely lose one or more of the players when the actually gameplay begins.

 

 

Reply #5 from Demigod Forums Top

Just as an update. I did get a game where I hosted to work (with 1 person, even though i was going for a 2v2), but the other person dropped within the first 5 minutes.