Disconnects

[Khamski]

1) As presented, the idea will not restore worm health / poison status, weapon inventory, sudden death status, etc.
2) Presently, the map editor is just an image editor with some metadata. It is completely separated from worms/teams or network code. Thus, this would be difficult to implement.
3) It would be rather tedious to do for every disconnect, rather than simply wait for the connection to be re-established.

Deadcode informed me that resuming a game from a replay would not be too difficult, however there are many details with this approach that need to be dealt with, such as user interface presentation (usability and discoverability), and security.

Agree. If game continuation is possible this is ALL WE NEED!

Btw is there any place we can donate money for w:a update work?
I think it would be great if community supported people who give it so much joy.

[Casso]

atm In my opinion making the game simply attempt to reconnect when there is a lost connection would be enough because, as they already said, it's very complicate to resume a game from a replay and it isn't secure.

[franz]

Agree. If game continuation is possible this is ALL WE NEED!

Btw is there any place we can donate money for w:a update work?
I think it would be great if community supported people who give it so much joy.

W:A Kickstarter for DC/CS, would anyone donate?

[StepS]

Agree. If game continuation is possible this is ALL WE NEED!

Btw is there any place we can donate money for w:a update work?
I think it would be great if community supported people who give it so much joy.

W:A Kickstarter for DC/CS, would anyone donate?

it was discussed deeply for more than two times. the conclusion always was: "lack of time rather than money".

[Khamski]

For CS:

http://www.twitch.tv/khamski/b/421232870

start from 6:30

[Khamski]

Hey. lets keep this thread alive.
Here u have the dc in the game hosted by hb.
Very frustarting.
 2013-06-24 18.05.32 [Online] HostingBuddy, Marjano, @Khamski.WAgame (152.34 kB - downloaded 28 times.)

[Khamski]

Another dc.
Very weird one.
Game showed message like one player left the game by quitting.
But it wasn't the case.
So game lied.

Replays from both sides:
 zoky Khamski case - dc round.rar (6.1 kB - downloaded 27 times.)

[j0e]

W:A Kickstarter for DC/CS, would anyone donate?

Yes. And I think reconnects would be a tremendous improvement to the game.

[Godmax]

Well this disconnect problem sometimes destroys wonderful tight matches. Usually you get instulted as a quitter afterwards ^^

I have dozens of matches with DCs I could post here. I will do that sooner or later no prob if it helps

Lets hope this gets solved someday. I will pray and try to help ^^

1: Yes
2: Yes
3: No
4: No

Here an immediate disconnect by uncle Tobias. And another one. A classic one. 2on2 mole forts and if someone has a "network drop" its over for good like in the second match here:

[MeTonaTOR]

1. Yes
2. Yes
3. No
4. No

[Bibletobi]

1. Yes
2. Yes
3. No
4. No


The Possibility to rejoin game would be an incredible pleasure. I hate it if someone f@#!s out Game is doomed! So it would be one of the most important inventions in human history or better Worms career^^

[Mega`Adnan]

No matter how and why, please make a "Continue from dropped game" feature for the future update.

[Godmax]

Cyber you still working on solving the problem? You need more replay files with DCs? I could provide a lot but have to search through hundreds of games Adnan is a typical DC candidate.

[Godmax]

So, anything needed? Anything going on?

[j0e]

Resuming from replays, while it would be nice, is a very ambitious goal. There are many security/validation/design issues to consider which stand in the way.

However it seems more doable to simply force the game to repeatedly, persistently reconnect if it detects a connection dropped. Currently, if the wifi drops for one second -- ie. any time someone sneezes too loud, uses the microwave, or listens to Nickleback -- the game drops, with zero chance of recovery.

In my opinion this 'keep alive' feature would be the single biggest improvement possible to the game. I've dropped from countless matches due to flaky connections.. seemingly always at the worst possible time.

How difficult would this be? Currently planned? If so, any chance of it before 4.0? Sorry to nag. I greatly appreciate everything you have done, Deadcode and Cybershadow.