Network lost after entering scene

04/08/2016 23:06
Title: As above, Soltown, friends online mode
Reproduction Rate: 100%
Blocker? Yes
Details: Network congestion caused disconnection from the service
Steps to Reproduce: Enter Soltown, wait
User Specs:
OS: Linux 4.6 Fedora 23 64bit
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz (4) System RAM: 32100
GPU: GeForce GTX 760/PCIe/SSE2 GPU RAM: 1024
SotA.EarlyAccess.Linux.64.455.Date.08.04.16
Area: Novia_R1_City_Soltown
Loc: (-24.4, 27.0, 23.8)

 

Ugh, please fix. For Linux users this is a nightmare, during land rush :-(

 

Same.

As soon as I'm scene master, I have a few seconds (some sort of a timeout) before experiencing what said by OP.

 

Been thinking about this while playing something else. I noticed that every time I restarted the game and resumed in Soltown I would see the Town Crier walk slowly across in front of me. Note also the thread about the black sky where I reported full scene illumination at midnight. Something that would explain both these issues is if some internal variable for 'current time' is being set to a specific value rather than the current actual time, client then measures time since last network response relative to this incorrect variable, notices it's a big discrepancy and so disconnects us. Meanwhile lighting is using the same incorrect variable, so we see day time lighting.

 

Ran into the same Pelican network error running around Spectral Foothills about 30 minutes ago. It happened once while fighting after I just entered, and then shortly after I re-logged in, died fighting, and then when I touched a nearby Ankh to resurrect it errored out again. Using patch 455, 64-bit client,Ubuntu Linux 14.04, GTX 750 Ti.

 

Salut,
Same here!

My concern is about how could we pick our lot???
My window will start in three days so if that problem persists many players and I will be F** up!
It will also confirm my very first concern about the situation on the Linux state. ("Did Portalarium anticipated that? and What will they do for these Players?")

I am asking Portalarium to put all their ressources to find a solution very quickly before it reaches a "point of no return".

Is there any players here that are already in that situation? I urge you to make your voice loud and clear in this post!!

Deb(not)cool(on this one)

User Specs:
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OS: Debian GNU/Linux 8.5 64bit
CPU: Intel i7-3770
RAM: 16 Go
GPU: GeForce GTX 760 2Go

 

This is a BIG issue. About to select my lot and I can't because of network congestion?

What's really interesting. I see network traffic go through the roof when I launch the client. Not at all normal. Instead of low traffic on my network, I see it spike and sit there maxed out when I enter a scene. Like Etceter.

UPDATE.

After reloading the client multiple times, the network traffic seems to have settled down now. My network traffic looks normal while I'm in a scene. However it took several reloads.

Perhaps other's can try this.

Sit there and let the client disconnect. Relogin after each disconnect. Just sit there. After the third time I noticed everything 'seems' to be normal now. No explanation that I can come up with (yet).

I think I can select a lot here shortly now. Crossing fingers

 

Good luck @Sentinel2

 

Did have some success last night with staying connected, as long as you are not Scene Master.

If you are alone or the first in a scene it happens every time for Linux, but if I went into a scene first (I'm Win10) then my Linux friend had no problems. Might be worth a try for lot placement at least.

Good luck Linux friends, this shouldn't be happening during the land rush. I feel for you guys.

 

Ok. I'm way off. Looking around and more testing. It looks like the problem is when you are alone in a scene. If there are other players then you are ok. Another thread mentioned this. And after a few more "network congestion" messages, I'm pretty sure this is what's going on.

So linux clients all alone in a scene = bad. When you have other's around, the network looks fine.

UPDATE

Ok. Since I'm an hour away from lot placement, I'm updating my windows computer with the latest SOTA patch. If I crash again in Linux I'll need plan B ready. This land rush has forced me to the dark side.

At least I only need it for a few minutes while the Unity team get's smacked!!

 

Spoiler: Network Traffic - Scene Master

http://www.dropbox.com/s/gphxq8dx7p6rxqm/sotabug_scene_master1_cropped.png?dl=0

Here is the screen shot showing my client running and the network traffic. It's not a spike I'm afraid. It hasn't gone down since they left :/

 

Thanks for the tip guys!

 

Like the crash-on-death (which made every death extremely meaningful for us linux users), I guess this is a veiled nudge by Portalarium to make everyone play with others. If it works on linux, they expand the program on the other platforms!

 

It's not a bug, it's a feature!

 

@Attenwood, this is a really severe issue. Please give it some attention.

 

It's not mentioned in the Build Number 456 Patchnotes.
Not even in the known issues.

 

https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/forum/index.php?threads/linux-blockers-update.55438/page-2

Attenwood just mentioned it's known and they are working on it. It's all good. We'll get there folks

 

This is now a known issue. We will resolve this ASAP. Thank you for reporting.

 

Same on Arch (rolling updates, so latest stable in all). Reproducable in single player online easily. Sticking to busy Soltown etc for now.

 

Definitely need smacking for more than a few minutes.
I'm assuming you mean the devs at Unity that caused this, not Portalarium's team that inherited it. I have (mostly) nothing but sympathy for the Portalarium guys that have to deal with this crap.