pognivet 151 Posted August 6, 2018 I got a few friends that I play with. Either we do small-scale ops or we're just part of some large AI-led squad in a massive battle. They only have a limited time they can play because of work and school and one guy is a military brat and has to deal with all this weird stuff on base or whatever. I made a badass mission on Sahrani where you're mercenaries and you fly in on a Cessna and blah blah blah. We played it the day before yesterday and it worked perfectly fine the first try. Everyone was able to connect. No problems at all. We played for hours. I put up the same server yesterday using the same settings and running the same exact mission using the same exact mods on the same port number I've used for every game for like 10 years. I try to have everyone connect and they say they can't. The second they get into the server they get kicked back to the lobby with no messages or relevant logs anywhere (thanks Bohemia!) and it would happen no matter what we did. We tried defragging, restarting steam, verifying the game cache and other digital black magic and voodoo. I was getting ready to re-install the whole god damned game and all the mods when I decided to try something. I was desperate. Suddenly, I thought "I'll just check the fucking UPNP box when I host the server and if that doesn't work I'm gonna drink half a bottle of vodka and then sit in my bathroom for an hour with the lights off". Why did I decide to do this? I don't know. I forget why I even thought of trying this. Maybe God struck my brain with knowledge, like lightning from the sky. I checked UPNP when hosting the server and had everyone try to join. It kicked them again with no message so I told them to just spam it and try to join over and over, maybe I can get a message or something in a log to work with. They got kicked like 4 or 5 times, but on the 6th or 7th time they stayed and all was well. It stopped kicking them and we played the full mission with no problems. Absolutely fucking flabberghasting. This has nothing to do with the settings on my router or the router itself being fucked up. It has nothing to do with my ISP. Nothing has changed between the two times we played. Thank God I tried this solution for some reason or else I'd be sitting there for 8 hours with nothing to show for it since there is ZERO information to work with. It's all just guesswork and digital black magic. I do know that this, without a shadow of a doubt, only started happening after the new piece of shit update "Encore" came out or whatever the latest update is called. For whatever reason it makes it so port-forwarding/using a specific port randomly doesn't work no matter what (at least for certain people on listen servers) and you have to use UPNP or it just kicks everyone that tries to join and doesn't say anything even though they're able to connect to the server using that port before being kicked. My hypothesis is that some sort of signature verification between the client and the server fails whenever using a specified port and not UPNP, but I can't say definitively since there's no information anywhere. It's complete digital voodoo/black magic, but the ritual works and it gets the spirits of the machine on your side. So if anyone has this problem all of a sudden when trying to host themselves to play with friends try checking the UPNP box and then having everyone try to connect like ten times. On one of the times it will randomly work. It may take even more than ten times, it depends on if the spirits of the machine are angry with you or not. Eventually your suffering-energy of failing to connect will satiate them and they'll allow you to play. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pierremgi 4886 Posted August 6, 2018 Welcome to 21st century. A pain in the b..tt to connect players for a game. I remember the same difficulty with Ghost Recon Wildlands and the f...g NAT open or strict, depending on versions. But, there are also permanent miracles like Steam chat. All you don't really need run fine! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites