Map Disconnects

[Turamber]

Suffered five of these this evening in about 70 minutes of play. Have given up for the evening now, but wondered if there is a reason/solution for them?

 

[Danya]

Only had one, dunno what the issue is.

 

[Covenant]

Just recently, I've been getting these really bad.

If you check the official boards, you'll see that there's a hell of a lot of this that is going on. Cryptic have, generally, said that it's down to client PCs, rather than their netcode.

Given that there's such a prolific amount of LCTMS posts, from people with massively varied setups and internet providers, I would draw the conclusion that there's something wrong at their end - especially as there's an alteration to netcode in the coming update.

 

[Scorn]

I've been having both map disconnects and random crashes, ever since the feature update went live my random crashes seem to have become connection related; every time it crashed (6 or 7 times in some five hours of gaming, with some 8 or 9 map server discos thrown in for good measure :| ) it wasn't able to send the error report (it gives you a dialog where you can save it locally, presumably to send it in later). Most times when I had a map server disco or a crash (I've noticed this before, but it has become very predictable since the feature update) my connection would be a bit buggy (i.e. slow, non-existent, etc.), my best guess at the moment is basically the same as what Breni says: that the CoH netcode isn't robust enough so it tends to choke on certain glitches.