Multiple bugs in Multiplayer
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2022 3:53 am
I've played many, many single player games flawlessly and really enjoy this game, so I had a friend purchase it.
Unfortunately, after 3 hours of trying everything I can think of, we've not been able to get a game working correctly. Of the many bugs we saw, these were the ones which were fatal:
1. We successfully started a game, but about 50% of the time after completing the first turn, it still showed the game as being on turn 0 and the challenger's turn. When the challenger (host) started their turn, all of their moves were lost. We tried this multiple times and it's as if the turn was never uploaded. This was the same whether we used the end turn functionality or save game.
2. When it did successfully record the first turn, it never showed in the MP lobby that it was the other player's turn, and they never got an e-mail. Instead the challenger (first player) could still enter the game, but when they did, it would be the other side's turn. I was able to play 3-4 turns like this essentially hot-seating both sides. The game never updated for the other player and the other player was not able to do any turns. No e-mails were received about it being their turn (just that the game started).
3. In some cases, I wasn't able to even join a game. This is the only case where I saw errors in the logs. The error was:
FileNotFoundException: Could not find file "C:\Users\kklem\OneDrive\Documents\My Games\WarPlan\Campaigns\North Africa 1941.scn"
In this case, this file was in fact missing. When I ran another instance of the game on another machine, this file was there, and by copying it over I was able to join the game, but we still had the issues 1 & 2 above.
It's very disappointing we've been unable to get this working. I'm a game developer myself, so I realize there can be complications with various install edge cases. I've dug through the logs and tried to figure out what might be going on here, but not having any luck. In case it matters, we are playing this through a steam install, so there is the complication of their cloud save system.
I can attach the full logs here, but there really isn't anything interesting there other than the error I listed above for the North Africa scenario. In most cases we were trying the 1939 scenario and I saw no errors in the logs. There were just a log of lines like these:
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UnloadTime: 0.424900 ms
Unloading 6 Unused Serialized files (Serialized files now loaded: 0)
UnloadTime: 0.318300 ms
Unloading 69 unused Assets to reduce memory usage. Loaded Objects now: 1705.
Total: 16.611500 ms (FindLiveObjects: 0.051700 ms CreateObjectMapping: 0.016400 ms MarkObjects: 15.621500 ms DeleteObjects: 0.921400 ms)
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Any help here would be much appreciated. Would really love to be able to play this. FYI, I joined another player's game that had no password, and I saw exactly the same behavior.
Thanks,
Kevin
Unfortunately, after 3 hours of trying everything I can think of, we've not been able to get a game working correctly. Of the many bugs we saw, these were the ones which were fatal:
1. We successfully started a game, but about 50% of the time after completing the first turn, it still showed the game as being on turn 0 and the challenger's turn. When the challenger (host) started their turn, all of their moves were lost. We tried this multiple times and it's as if the turn was never uploaded. This was the same whether we used the end turn functionality or save game.
2. When it did successfully record the first turn, it never showed in the MP lobby that it was the other player's turn, and they never got an e-mail. Instead the challenger (first player) could still enter the game, but when they did, it would be the other side's turn. I was able to play 3-4 turns like this essentially hot-seating both sides. The game never updated for the other player and the other player was not able to do any turns. No e-mails were received about it being their turn (just that the game started).
3. In some cases, I wasn't able to even join a game. This is the only case where I saw errors in the logs. The error was:
FileNotFoundException: Could not find file "C:\Users\kklem\OneDrive\Documents\My Games\WarPlan\Campaigns\North Africa 1941.scn"
In this case, this file was in fact missing. When I ran another instance of the game on another machine, this file was there, and by copying it over I was able to join the game, but we still had the issues 1 & 2 above.
It's very disappointing we've been unable to get this working. I'm a game developer myself, so I realize there can be complications with various install edge cases. I've dug through the logs and tried to figure out what might be going on here, but not having any luck. In case it matters, we are playing this through a steam install, so there is the complication of their cloud save system.
I can attach the full logs here, but there really isn't anything interesting there other than the error I listed above for the North Africa scenario. In most cases we were trying the 1939 scenario and I saw no errors in the logs. There were just a log of lines like these:
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UnloadTime: 0.424900 ms
Unloading 6 Unused Serialized files (Serialized files now loaded: 0)
UnloadTime: 0.318300 ms
Unloading 69 unused Assets to reduce memory usage. Loaded Objects now: 1705.
Total: 16.611500 ms (FindLiveObjects: 0.051700 ms CreateObjectMapping: 0.016400 ms MarkObjects: 15.621500 ms DeleteObjects: 0.921400 ms)
---
Any help here would be much appreciated. Would really love to be able to play this. FYI, I joined another player's game that had no password, and I saw exactly the same behavior.
Thanks,
Kevin