0009023: Meteor missions in multiplayer are buggy or out of sync - Arcen Idea Tracker (Bugs and Features)

ID	Project	Category		Date Submitted	Last Update

0009023	Valley 1	Bug - AVWW Multiplayer		Jul 22, 2012 11:39 pm	Jul 24, 2012 10:25 am

Reporter	doubtful	Assigned To	keith.lamothe
Status	assigned	Resolution	open
Product Version	1.203

Summary	0009023: Meteor missions in multiplayer are buggy or out of sync
Description	TL;DR edit: Sorry this took so long to explain. It is /very/ bizarre. Suffice to say, Meteor missions are acting as if up to four meteors are hitting a stockpile if both of the 2 players present miss a particular meteor. Stockpiles seem to take massively increased, truly unpreventable damage if you don't attempt them alone. I've noticed in playing on our home network using a LAN server on the same machine as one of the player's--which has been a very reliable method for other LAN games, I might add--that the Meteor missions behave very strangely. Specifically, the game /appears/ to act as if each player has their own copies of meteors or something so that even if I knock mine aside, for the other player it's as if there's a meteor still there that ends up hitting the stash anyway. One player will be shooting at meteors and knocking them aside to no apparent effect, and when meteors DO hit a stockpile it acts as if multiple hits have occurred. The damage half of the issue may be due to increased damage due to multiplayer for balancing issues, perhaps. But the fact that these missions are basically unplayable when 2 or 3 players are present is very annoying. D: We've tried the same mission with one person staying in the mission entrance and it seemed fine, but when we tried together, the stockpiles went down /very/ quickly. It's very bizarre. It seems to go beyond even just me not seeing the other player's (invisible to me) meteors hit a stash because they missed one. It's as if, even if I knock mine away, if I don't knock an extra, invisible, intangible copy of that same meteor away, a hit registers on the stash anyway. And this /seems/ to maybe even be happening for /each/ player so that each hit can do up to (players_present_squared) damage, or something, if nobody hits a particular meteor. D:
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Internal Weight	Fix Before Major Release

keith.lamothe Jul 23, 2012 4:41 pm administrator ~0027072	Had you attempted any meteor missions in multiplayer in previous versions? Was it any different? Thanks for letting us know and for the detailed explanation :)

doubtful Jul 23, 2012 7:26 pm reporter ~0027076 Last edited: Jul 23, 2012 7:27 pm	Oops, forgot to mention other versions. :) Yeah, I can't remember exactly which version(s) we had been playing on, but this has definitely occurred in other minor version numbers. We hadn't started playing multiplayer until version 1.2 official came out, I believe. So I can't give you any more information than that except that it's been occurring since about 1.2. :)

Matthew Carras Jul 24, 2012 10:25 am reporter ~0027099	Hmm odd, I mostly do Defend Supply Depot missions with 1 other player on my 1.200 MP server and I've never encountered this problem. Instead I get bug 0009008, but I'm guessing these two are related, so I'll add the relation.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
Jul 22, 2012 11:39 pm	doubtful	New Issue
Jul 23, 2012 4:33 pm	tigersfan	Internal Weight	=> Fix Before Major Release
Jul 23, 2012 4:33 pm	tigersfan	Assigned To	=> keith.lamothe
Jul 23, 2012 4:33 pm	tigersfan	Status	new => assigned
Jul 23, 2012 4:41 pm	keith.lamothe	Note Added: 0027072
Jul 23, 2012 7:26 pm	doubtful	Note Added: 0027076
Jul 23, 2012 7:26 pm	doubtful	Note Edited: 0027076
Jul 23, 2012 7:27 pm	doubtful	Note Edited: 0027076
Jul 24, 2012 10:25 am	Matthew Carras	Note Added: 0027099
Jul 24, 2012 10:25 am	Matthew Carras	Relationship added	related to 0009008