Server disconnect for no reason

If you live across the world from each, it can happen quite often depending on what service providers or how "good" your internet is. By "good" I mean that, you might be able to use the internet just fine, but if it takes you you more than an hour to download most online games, then you're internet isn't necessarily cut out for playing with a long distance friend, or even a close by friend in the same town. Also, Internet usage can have "burps" in it quite often depending on lots of different things. These "burps" only affect situations where you are playing Multiplayer. The "Burp" is only a quick, couple milliseconds loss of internet most of the time, but it's enough to get DC'ed from a connection to a server. Honestly There are multiple other reasons it can be happening to, not mentioned here. But just checking your internet connection, is not enough to say the problem isn't on "your end." Doesn't mean it's your fault, just means it might not be something anyone else can fix.

 

LAN can still have times where the internet "burps" It's just the internet connection being lost for a fraction of a second. Also, adding something that allows for re-connection isn't possible, as the server it self doesn't keep track of who DC's while playing with who. And it's not a server owned by Celeste in the same sense that big companies have their own servers... at least afaik Celeste kinda "rents" a server from somewhere. Could be wrong of course. And I for one know it's not a Server instability issue, as I never have this issue. Also, if you are using LAN only, you couldn't know if it's on your end, or their end, without first trying to Co-OP without using LAN. You'd need to try Co-Oping with someone not in the same house as you.

 

I've never seen an RTS that has this feature. Sorry bud. I have played AgeIII, and it's never asked me to reconnect to a game that I dc'ed from. Age II is the same way. RTS games are just too different to really use a reconnect method. Because once you DC, the game considers you to have resigned. Which means you are already considered as having lost. AoEO already DOES wait for a good 60 seconds of trying to reconnect you to each other before just DCing you from each other.

 

This was a long standing complaint with the original AOEO (back when it was under Microsoft), if it were a simple problem to solve someone would have done it already.

 

Yeah it's not an easy fix to implement an autorecord/save in the background of all launched games/quests that lets you reconnect if you crash, and it'd be even harder because of co-op and pvp not having a central server the games synchronize to (and if we did, "rubber-banding" due to blips in connection would be worse without several months of tuning). Having the feature would be amazing, but working on something like that will probably cost us a questpack or set of new gear or cosmetics, or more, while the devs divert attention and man-hours to it.

I have had games where the other player has managed to keep connected after the timer has gone down to the last 5 seconds btw, so the reconnect as-is does work to an extent, but yes, the game is probably pickier than most you'll play when it comes to packet-loss.