I think it’s AWS sweep ups from Akamai’s little DNS adventure yesterday.
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sallymorganmoore
Senior Community Manager : Elite Dangerous
Hmmmm...not being able to hand in missions is a nasty one. Is anyone else experiencing this? I'm having a scour now.
I love you, Elite Dangerous, I do, but why test us like this at 17:46 on a Friday :')
I'll keep this noted to take a look at as soon as possible.
I'm no networking specialist... but adds a hop?
It's more like having a direct line to somebody (your local IP on your network), versus calling a switchboard (your router) and having them put you through (to your local pc), in my understanding. A direct route, rather than having to discover one.
It doesn't.
It's Zack's fault. He forgot to feed the hamsters.
I know you’re only a doctor, Bones
My mistake
Domo arigato
Frontier needs to stop the cost cutting schemes for better stock quarterly reports where it impacts the SPH (Server Power Hamsters). Forcing CMs to take a two hour turn at powering the servers is not a good idea. Return the SPH food supply back to levels before cost cuts and the SPH will be able to get back to the 24/7 service we are accustomed to.
I never understood why people port forward, because I personally never ever have needed to, not on PS4 nor PC, and I've used a variety of routers over the years (all dusty, of course).
I hope I didn't break anything
Almost as nasty as this one? I'd say about 75% of these missions I've taken haven't spawned at all.
Crash site mission markers not showing?
As per title. I have two crash site missions and on scanning the planets there are no blue mission objective markers. There are multiple crash sites and also irregular markers, distress beacons etc but nothing showing up as the mission. Is this a new bug?
(Yes, it's logged in the issue tracker!)
Depends on use case. For gaming, yeah probably not required 99% of the time unless hosting dedicated servers locally.
The way I understand it (non technical) is, if my PC opens a dialog with some gaming server (or any server) somewhere, then replies will find their way back to the same device that initiated that comms and they can normally chat fine, unless a firewall gets in the way.. So, no need for port forwarding.
If something externally wants to initiate comms with my PC and I want to allow it, with many different devices (pc/phones/consoles etc) all on that same network, then port forwarding is pretty much essential to direct the traffic to the relevant machine to accept the comms, aka my PC and not try talking to my phone/tv/console whatever instead. i.e Hosting a Dedi Server. So port forwarding is required.
Yep, that's how it works. If I were to start my own Space Engineers server on my own hardware, I would definitely need port forwarding then.
Interesting because this happened to me a couple of days ago, both horizons and odyssey said install. Quick reboot seemed to convince frontier that I had actually already installed both.
In most games the clients only need to connect to the server. In ED clients need to connect to each other, and that only works well if at least one side has forwarded a port. So if you don't forward, the other player has to, or else both clients have to connect through some sort of relay host, which might be a third player who has forwarded the ports. This inserts a hop between you and the second player, increases packet latency, and generally makes gameplay less responsive and stable than it could be with a direct connection.
I go through a VPN, so no amount of port forwarding will help me. Although latency has never been a serious issue when my actual internet is behaving, not for the games I play on PC.
My PS4 bypasses the VPN and goes straight on the internet, because I use that for games like Overwatch where every millisecond counts.
Thanks for following-up but now I see that it looks like the issue was that the server crash caused the servers to lose state between backpack and ship contents as the crash happened just after I got the item from the settlement but before I left and jumped. When I could log in again I was on the ship and the mission showed as ready to return. Hopefully no-one else had this bad luck with the timing of the crash.
Credit where credit is due.
Very impressive @sallymorganmoore , you are a credit to Frontier and I hope they are taking notice of your dedication. That 2nd shot kicked the out of me.
Very impressive @sallymorganmoore , you are a credit to Frontier and I hope they are taking notice of your dedication. That 2nd shot kicked the
out of me.Just wanted to say thanks. Actually did a clean install. Seems to be working well now. Sorry for dismissing your suggestion. Not sure why it was just ED but it's good now it seems. Thanks again. Cheers.
IDK what happened when they brought the game back online but now people are both hovering above and sinking into the floor in stations... all assets are affected as well like terminals, even the lifts.