Massive Multiplayer Bug

Hi,

 

I dont have any screenshots of the bug, and its only happened once, but during a 2v2 game on ironclad online (About 25 minutes into it) one of the opposing players sent a chat-to-all:

 "Good game NewPlayer [my ally], titans are OP" (Meaning he had been defeated)

Then he surrenders. There was further talk on how his titan took his capital, etc, but I litterally searched every single planet in view and did not find a single titan. Its as if the scrolled out "map" was frozen in time, much earlier on in the game. My ally wasnt moving from his 6 or so planets, and neither was I.

When I asked him what was going on, he pinged the enemys capital, where he claimed his fleet+titan was sitting, but it was obscured by fog of war...

I double checked our diplomacy screen - everything was checked, it was fine.

Every other aspect of the game was working fine (trade ships were moving, etc) , so It wasnt something I would have noticed until the game ended.

If this bug occurs more than once, Ill let you know, but if it isnt fixed, it basically makes the game unplayable as you cant see whats going on other than in your own grav wells.

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Reply #1 Top

It is called Multiplayer Desynchronization. It is not supposed to happen and the dev's are aware of this issue and are currently working on it, I believe.

Reply #2 Top

It's also a pretty old bug as well...has been around since before rebellion.

 

Reply #3 Top

Good to know its a known bug. Thanks

Reply #4 Top

Yeah and it is the most annoying as well, nothing worse, when 2 hours into the game you find out that your buddy and you play basically 2 different games  :D

Reply #5 Top

When these occur, we really need folks to send us their save games and latest autosaves (zipped) following the info here: https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/418918

 

Desyncs are extremely hard to locate and fix otherwise.