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Piste
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
6183 Posts
October 23 2020 18:00 GMT
#21
On October 23 2020 23:08 BlueStar wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 23 2020 23:00 Comedy wrote:
On October 23 2020 22:43 SirGlinG wrote:
I've had a lot of these issues off and on for the last half year.
Join game Lobby screen stuck in the past with 3 month old games, 20 clicks to join a friends game. Now the plague is everywhere it seems.

They'll move back to an older patch unless their one employee has the rona but I like what Bluestar said.

Blizzard leaving SC:R alone can be a blessing in disguise if the community joins forces, moves back to the abyss or something new. Third party programmers unite!

Imagine the things we could do if we didn't spend our time complaining about Activision, instead took action. We need admins, shitlords and coders. ICCUP still has a infrastructure to build it from.

Anyone reading Ygosu or such? Is there talk about saving broodwar? Getting Fish back up?


If you have these issues frequently try opening port 6112 udp/tcp. It'll help most likely.

Is this troll or for real? :D

Port forwarding is normal for peer-to-peer games like broodwar.
XenOsky
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Chile2356 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-10-23 19:24:25
October 23 2020 19:23 GMT
#22
On October 23 2020 22:43 SirGlinG wrote:
I've had a lot of these issues off and on for the last half year.
Join game Lobby screen stuck in the past with 3 month old games, 20 clicks to join a friends game. Now the plague is everywhere it seems.

They'll move back to an older patch unless their one employee has the rona but I like what Bluestar said.

Blizzard leaving SC:R alone can be a blessing in disguise if the community joins forces, moves back to the abyss or something new. Third party programmers unite!

Imagine the things we could do if we didn't spend our time complaining about Activision, instead took action. We need admins, shitlords and coders. ICCUP still has a infrastructure to build it from.

Anyone reading Ygosu or such? Is there talk about saving broodwar? Getting Fish back up?



This.

bnet has always been crappy.

fish > bnet
game-i > bnet
neo game-i > bnet
wgtour > bnet
pgtour > bnet
iccup > bnet
shield battery > bnet
brain clan > bnet

+ Show Spoiler +
fuck, im old...



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Garrl
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Scotland1977 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-10-23 19:51:55
October 23 2020 19:50 GMT
#23
On October 24 2020 03:00 Piste wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 23 2020 23:08 BlueStar wrote:
On October 23 2020 23:00 Comedy wrote:
On October 23 2020 22:43 SirGlinG wrote:
I've had a lot of these issues off and on for the last half year.
Join game Lobby screen stuck in the past with 3 month old games, 20 clicks to join a friends game. Now the plague is everywhere it seems.

They'll move back to an older patch unless their one employee has the rona but I like what Bluestar said.

Blizzard leaving SC:R alone can be a blessing in disguise if the community joins forces, moves back to the abyss or something new. Third party programmers unite!

Imagine the things we could do if we didn't spend our time complaining about Activision, instead took action. We need admins, shitlords and coders. ICCUP still has a infrastructure to build it from.

Anyone reading Ygosu or such? Is there talk about saving broodwar? Getting Fish back up?


If you have these issues frequently try opening port 6112 udp/tcp. It'll help most likely.

Is this troll or for real? :D

Port forwarding is normal for peer-to-peer games like broodwar.


as far as I know, part of the problem is that remastered isn't direct p2p anymore, it's routed through their servers to solve the port forwarding issues that plagued 1.16.

Existing private server solutions (iccup, shield battery, fish, brain) won't work and will require more resources to work with RM. Reason we had a few servers working simultaneously was because hosting a private server took almost no traffic.
jtkirk
Profile Joined January 2017
33 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-10-23 21:19:41
October 23 2020 21:19 GMT
#24
I concur, that this sucks. Yes, fuck, I am old. Between work and kids, I have max 30 minutes to play BW in the evening. If I take away 10 minutes for a PvP and 10 minutes for two stupid rush games, I have 10 minutes left to play a normal game. In these days, not even that
shafirudd
Profile Joined June 2019
United States25 Posts
October 23 2020 21:33 GMT
#25
Couldn't join or host a game from Americas, but switching to PTR was able to
Megaliskuu
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States5123 Posts
October 23 2020 22:29 GMT
#26
Started having issues yesterday but was at least able to find a few games, no luck today though
|BW>Everything|Add me on star2 KR server TheMuTaL.675 for practice games :)|NEX clan| https://www.dotabuff.com/players/183104694
Hollow
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
Canada2180 Posts
October 23 2020 23:10 GMT
#27
I had issues as well at some point. Yesterday during the afternoon, only one game showed up. It resolved itself on its own after a few hours.
tec27
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States3702 Posts
October 24 2020 03:19 GMT
#28
On October 24 2020 04:50 Garrl wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 24 2020 03:00 Piste wrote:
On October 23 2020 23:08 BlueStar wrote:
On October 23 2020 23:00 Comedy wrote:
On October 23 2020 22:43 SirGlinG wrote:
I've had a lot of these issues off and on for the last half year.
Join game Lobby screen stuck in the past with 3 month old games, 20 clicks to join a friends game. Now the plague is everywhere it seems.

They'll move back to an older patch unless their one employee has the rona but I like what Bluestar said.

Blizzard leaving SC:R alone can be a blessing in disguise if the community joins forces, moves back to the abyss or something new. Third party programmers unite!

Imagine the things we could do if we didn't spend our time complaining about Activision, instead took action. We need admins, shitlords and coders. ICCUP still has a infrastructure to build it from.

Anyone reading Ygosu or such? Is there talk about saving broodwar? Getting Fish back up?


If you have these issues frequently try opening port 6112 udp/tcp. It'll help most likely.

Is this troll or for real? :D

Port forwarding is normal for peer-to-peer games like broodwar.


as far as I know, part of the problem is that remastered isn't direct p2p anymore, it's routed through their servers to solve the port forwarding issues that plagued 1.16.

Existing private server solutions (iccup, shield battery, fish, brain) won't work and will require more resources to work with RM. Reason we had a few servers working simultaneously was because hosting a private server took almost no traffic.

Blizzard's system only switches off P2P if a P2P connection is impossible (e.g. because no ports are forwarded and the NAT on both sides is antagonistic to automatically finding a mutual port). While you are correct that existing private servers largely won't work with Remastered, it's more because most of them were based around Battle.net protocol emulation (PVPGN), and the game no longer uses that protocol at all.

ShieldBattery was always a complete replacement for the server protocol, and our games were always done via proxies (not direct P2P). The only prohibitive part of Remastered for that approach is the modern anti-debugging stuff they added, not network traffic. Forwarding game traffic is not particularly intensive in this day and age (we're talking about like <10MB of traffic for the whole game).
Can you jam with the console cowboys in cyberspace?
Highgamer
Profile Joined October 2015
1451 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-10-24 03:51:04
October 24 2020 03:50 GMT
#29
Posts like tec27's always want to make me learn at least something about computer science...

A shame I finished school when round here all this came down to "some weirdos with the odd teacher in the room with the PC"... It had quite some use then already, now it also has the cool...
Golgotha
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Korea (South)8418 Posts
October 24 2020 05:22 GMT
#30
reporting from China servers. I can join games and people can join mine. But it's laggy as hell. extra high lat doesn't fix it.
Terrakin
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States1440 Posts
October 24 2020 09:38 GMT
#31
me and some friends were having issues joining each other lobbies what worked for us was just restarting game client a few times.
Fame was like a drug. But what was even more like a drug were the drugs.
Piste
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
6183 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-10-24 12:24:27
October 24 2020 12:22 GMT
#32
On October 24 2020 04:50 Garrl wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 24 2020 03:00 Piste wrote:
On October 23 2020 23:08 BlueStar wrote:
On October 23 2020 23:00 Comedy wrote:
On October 23 2020 22:43 SirGlinG wrote:
I've had a lot of these issues off and on for the last half year.
Join game Lobby screen stuck in the past with 3 month old games, 20 clicks to join a friends game. Now the plague is everywhere it seems.

They'll move back to an older patch unless their one employee has the rona but I like what Bluestar said.

Blizzard leaving SC:R alone can be a blessing in disguise if the community joins forces, moves back to the abyss or something new. Third party programmers unite!

Imagine the things we could do if we didn't spend our time complaining about Activision, instead took action. We need admins, shitlords and coders. ICCUP still has a infrastructure to build it from.

Anyone reading Ygosu or such? Is there talk about saving broodwar? Getting Fish back up?


If you have these issues frequently try opening port 6112 udp/tcp. It'll help most likely.

Is this troll or for real? :D

Port forwarding is normal for peer-to-peer games like broodwar.


as far as I know, part of the problem is that remastered isn't direct p2p anymore, it's routed through their servers to solve the port forwarding issues that plagued 1.16.

Existing private server solutions (iccup, shield battery, fish, brain) won't work and will require more resources to work with RM. Reason we had a few servers working simultaneously was because hosting a private server took almost no traffic.
if you wanna host games with unconfigured router, it is possible. But you will get a message saying that the connection is routed through proxy server, which may increase the latency.

So you still might wanna do some port forwarding even tho blizzard "fixed" the problem.
Piste
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
6183 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-10-24 12:24:13
October 24 2020 12:23 GMT
#33
deleted double post
BlueStar
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
Bulgaria1169 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-10-24 15:53:00
October 24 2020 15:19 GMT
#34
I know Blizzard won't respond, because none of the guys who visit/moderate forums has any power to do so.
HOWEVER I believe it's a good thing to have a discussion on the future of StarCraft.

If you'd like to chime in with expertise or suggestions, please feel free to hop in the B.net forums:
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/starcraft/t/give-power-to-the-community/1941
Leader of the Bulgarian National SCBW/SC2 team and team pSi.SCBW/SC2
N.geNuity
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States5112 Posts
October 24 2020 18:33 GMT
#35
i know nothing about the connections but restarting and/or port forwarding 6112 seemed to work when i had this problem. today with a friend. guess the actual people that know can explain whether port forwarding is relevant, but most of us had ports forwarded for many years so cant be too bad to go ahead and forward.
iu, seungah, yura, taeyeon, hyosung, lizzy, suji, sojin, jia, ji eun, eunji, soya, younha, jiyeon, fiestar, sinb, jung myung hoon godtier. BW FOREVERR
TelecoM
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States10700 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-10-24 18:44:31
October 24 2020 18:40 GMT
#36
Shield Battery or iCCup please.

EDIT : Just tested it and I can join public games and ladder, so I assume it is fixed.
AKA: TelecoM[WHITE] Protoss fighting
AttackZerg
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States7475 Posts
October 24 2020 19:37 GMT
#37
I had some trouble with marchmaking at 1850 yesterday. Paired. Break. Paired. Break.

Changed to my random account at 1600, no problems.
Changed back. No problems.

It seems to be fixed. Korea from cali is tr16 or 20. Peru is 12-14. Europe is 12-16

Things seem normal to me now.
Except random ladder pairings falling apart.

Oh one thing, my acounts were showing ratings from last season. My hehehekeke account is unranked but it says 1750 but that doesnt matter.
Eywa-
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Canada4876 Posts
October 24 2020 20:25 GMT
#38
I've been having a lot of issues joining games / viewing profiles... But I have to say, my experience is still better/easier to find games than the past 10 years of non-remastered.

List of current issues I've seen (maybe someone can compile a list into the OP)

1) a lot of frozen / stale game lobbies
2) can't view profiles at all
3) can't see some game lobbies (seems to be dependent on host or players in the game?)
4) Ladder finds match and fails to start 2-3 times per search

No in-game issues though. And Ladder otherwise still finds a match within ~1 min
Being mannered is almost as important as winning. Almost...
TelecoM
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States10700 Posts
October 24 2020 21:08 GMT
#39
Me and my opponent in BSL were unable to play our games today because of this issue (I think?) , I have played other people in public / ladder games, but we were unable to join each others games today, very unfortunate.
AKA: TelecoM[WHITE] Protoss fighting
QuadroX
Profile Joined August 2017
386 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-10-25 13:57:16
October 25 2020 13:56 GMT
#40
So frustrated at this game, now it's "Download failed." all the time for cloud settings and not connecting to the gateway over Mudfish VPN. Blizzard literally do "nothing" and still somehow manage to keep breaking the game. No client patches? Okay let's just break the servers.
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