Re: Multiplayer Bug? Cant switch sides...?

[Ar-Bee]

I cant seem to switch teams between rebellion and empire... in custom matches... its weird :S

 

 

It locks on whatever team i was playing before in Quickmatch, and im always locked on as rebellion, i cant change it to empire, it just reverts back to rebellion

 

if i was playing empire just before the custom game, it doesnt even show my name, team or anything at all and my slot is blank

 

someone help?

[Teradyn_pff]

I have also experienced this problem.  I closed the game and went into another one and still had the same problem.  I then played a lan galactic campaign and didn't have a problem there... so don't know what is going on.

[Delphi-PG]

Can anyone get me a reaptable case with steps on how to reproduce?  This is a slippery one.

[Le Jedi Fou]

It's hard to tell how to reproduce it because it happens ALL the time for the people affected by this bug. Either you have this bug all the time, or you don't have it at all. You just play an Internet game (conquest, skirmish) and you can't change your team and color, even as a host.

 

The only workaround I've found is to set up a Lan game and to chose your side, the bug doesn't affect Lan games. Then the last side/color chosen in the Lan game will be locked for your next Internet game. I don't know if it's the cause of the bug, but it's a workaround for me and some of my friends affected by this bug.

[Ar-Bee]

le fou is right, youl can change sides in LAN, then it dictates what side you will be online

 

i just played mass QM games delphi, and then one day i couldnt change sides in custom matches :S

[vipeness]

Can anyone get me a reaptable case with steps on how to reproduce?  This is a slippery one.

 

i can explain how this bug works.

 

basically before having any issues

 

ive redone my machine completely.

running winxp pro

latest drivers everything

 

install CDROM collectors edition, and bonus disk.

before the game was huge online, there was like only 40 people on when i got my copy. i could play no problem. when the national coverage aired the commericals, this is when i started to have issues.

 

when connecting to a game, you join into one, so for example, with a ping of 99. once you get in, you try to bring down your side to empire, because to even up the match, and it pops back. now also, you cant change your colors.. does the same thing. rumor is that is might fix it by having the host change the map and changing back, but that was a rumor from 1 person online, and i have had no luck.

 

this issue also happens when i host a game as well, im unable to switch sides, nor color. now this is with a clean reinstall of winxp, all drivers.

 

the only things that i might think is wrong that i was pondering were 2 things

 

1.) being that i registered before the big push for people trying to create online accounts, and my account got messed up on the end of gamespy.

 

2.) being that i own the collectors edition cd-rom version with the bonus cd installed.

 

*** i have not tried to install the game regalar yet without the bonus cd, so that is my next step on tracking this sucker down, so everyone can play.

 

now, if you just stay that side, and manage not to get kicked from the host, cuz you cant change sides to even the battles, you can join internet games with the side that it is stuck on, which is usually rebels... Go EMPIRE!

 

n e ways, im preparing a video of the bug, and will post it here on this thread so we can get this sucker whacked. ok guys later