Server Maintenance [January 2, 2021]

First of all, happy new year to everyone reading this around new years!
Age Of Empires Online Celeste Fan Project will undergo planned server maintenance on the 2nd of January 2021 starting at 3:00 PM UTC (4:00 PM CET). The server will stop responding to login requests at 2:15 PM UTC (3:15 PM CET) meaning you will not be able to log on from this time. We expect the maintenance to last until 3:30 PM UTC (4:30 PM CET).

 

Game server is now in maintenance mode and authentication has been disabled. Server maintenance will start in 45 min.

 

The server is now shutting down and starting update. Expected downtime is 30 minutes.

 

Server is back online.
Changelog:

• Fixed a problem with players being kicked out of chat channels, the root-cause was an optimization strategy in the underlying framework used for networking (Supersocket) that had the unintended effect of grouping replies from the server to the client into one packet. The client expects only one message per packet, and would therefore discard the remaining contents of the packet.
• Investigating the chat channel bug lead us to resolve an issue with PvP for those using NAT punchthrough, the root-cause was that the optimization strategy lead to connections being closed before a reply got sent to the client.
• Upgraded, optimized, and fixed issues in the game files package process that we experienced issues with last summer and towards the end of last year.
• Some quality of live infrastructure improvements for Item Search
• Got rid of 2020 (fuck that year, seriously)

 

Some players might need to re-join some channels. Make sure you have joined channels of your interest when you get in game!

 

We just had an unexpected server crash due to a small accident. The server is back online.