Why is it so difficult to play with my friend (s)

[chanrobi]

Probably 1 in 10 times does it actually work properly. We've made and joined our own private group. We see each other online in the group page (even this works 50%) of the time. Jump in game meet somewhere known (station exit or some such). I'd say less than 50% of the time we actually see each other. In game voice comms works, in game texting to each other works we just can't see each other.

Extremely, extremely frustrating.

I would expect this kind of thing in alpha or beta game... but not official release version.

Is it just buggy or what?

 

[Cmdr Andy B]

what

it could be that you need to forward a port so you get a better connection to each other, unplug & play is ok but having a port forwarded is better.

 

[SentineI]

The peer-to-peer (P2P) networking is highly dependant on your router & that of your friend. If you (or he) has a old router, you could try replacing it with a new one (as a last resort anyway). It might work better (or not).

You could also raise a Connectivity ticket, and see if Frontier can help you. They may ask you to send them some networking logs (they should explain how).

 

[chanrobi]

what

it could be that you need to forward a port so you get a better connection to each other, unplug & play is ok but having a port forwarded is better.

Thx, that was the hint I needed. We both edited config file to set a specific port. Now no problems. Thx for that wasted an hour this morning trying to figure that out.