Infinite waiting for other players

[JD2504]

ok this has been mentioned before but i think this needs his own thread.

This seems to happen at random when playing online, we select a song, start the game, song loads for everyone but the waiting for other players screen never goes away. The games doesnt freeze or anything we can go back to lobby by pressing start(instead of Select) we spent a couple of hours trying to play without luck, always stuck waiting for other players to "load".. it gets really annoying and its pretty much a game braking bug online.

game log doesnt have anything useful but server log show that some players "ready to go" status was never recived even when their game was already "waiting for other players". maybe the game clients are glitching and never sent the "ready to go" status or it just got lost in the way to the server due to lag?

Someone mentioned that it could be caused by pressing buttons while waiting but we made sure to not press anything and the bug still ocurred, restarting the server didnt help either

[David]

I'll look into it
David

[playershift]

Yes, we have also experienced this and when me with chunka,and we are tested on version 0.99b(because v1.01 is haven't to release before),and this situation looks like happened a few times and continuous thing just like jd2504 said, and is RANDOM in nature,but we are have tested a several times. in before weeks.

[hotzin]

The workaround for this game breaking bug, is telling everyone to close the game at the same time (and end the dedicated server, if it's your case), then tell everyone to restart the game, and create a new server. (It is really important that every side restarts their game, since the loading loop gets caught in every client once it happens, apparently.)

I've seen this bug happen in different occasions:

Restarting a song after failing (Restarting normally works just fine).
Pressing Red before everyone has loaded the song (which also makes other user's clients crash).
Trying to change the song during a session in progress.

[David]

We think we have fixed this now. It was a tough one to narrow down so we are not 100% sure if we have fixed it. The next version should be out soon with this bug fix.

Thanks
David

[Oddbrother]

I'll cross my fingers for this one. Let's hope there isn't a player to blame for it.

[JD2504]

Awesome, that was a lot quicker than i expected, Thanks.