Can't join any games but my own.

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After playing a lot of Demigod games against the computer, I decided to try playing some games against my brother (whom I talked into buying the game after showing him it in action).  We can't seem to connect to each others' games -- we see the "trying to join" dialog box, but even after waiting for several minutes we haven't been able to connect.  It's not just our own games: we can't connect to any of the games that show up in the game list, although attempting to do so will increment the number of players that the game list shows.

My computer's firewall is off, but we are behind a firewall/router/NAT box.  Do we need to open some extra ports on our firewall in order to participate in network games?  I don't recall seeing which port the game uses for outbound connections (same as inbound?) and the README doesn't say anything about this.  Any ideas?

 

Thanks!

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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

move one or both computers to the DMZ and see what happens.

Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

This same circumstance is occurring with me - I`ve been joined twice by others, but these days every time I try to join a listed game it sits forever at the "trying to join" dialogue and gets nowhere. I default back to A.I. skirmishes.

Something up with the Impulse matchmaker system?

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Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

I have had the same issue.  I have had people join my games but never been able to join others.  I just thought maybe I was doing something wrong or something was temporarily not working.  I have tried multiple times on different days and it always seems to do the same thing where it just sits with the connection screen and nothing happens.

Reply #4 from Demigod Forums Top

Same situation with me, as I have reported it to death on other threads.

I have played a lot of games with Beta 2 : most of them solo, a dozen of them as a host to other human players.

But I have never succeeded in joining one single game.

I concede that some of those games had already launched when I was stuck in the attempting-to-connect process, but other games remained on the lobby list when I aborted that process.

When trying to join, I waited for 30 to 90 seconds. Since this is supposed to be a beta test, I perhaps should have tried for hundreds of seconds, but I'm on Holidays : I intend to relax and have fun, not to work for free.

I'm behind a non-configured router, with no software firewall. This is a report, not a complaint.

Reply #5 from Demigod Forums Top

can anyone tell us if moving a computer to the DMZ helps the situation or not; i don't want to tell people to do so if it makes no differenece.

Reply #6 from Demigod Forums Top

Without changing anything in our configuration, we suddenly became able to join games about a third of the times that we tried (i.e., we got around 1-3 failures before we got in).  I didn't try moving the computer into the DMZ, sorry.