The connectivity works fine for me now Great Job there!

Only had some odd game crashes today.. not sure about the reason, will give that a try after i had some sleep

my rating:  

8/10 for custom games

6/10 for pantheon

Better than yesterday or last week.  It still seems like a hit or miss sometimes.   There are still issues, like everyone dropped from the game 5 minutes in, or I disconnected. 

Connection can be really quick like 1 minute.  Or takes forever like 10+ minutes.   Pantheon is still 2v2 for me, I hope to find more players.

In MY experience, its a godly update. I was one of the people having trouble connecting before the beta. Things got way better on beta but was still pretty fucked up....after beta was over it was chaos until you guys did a hotfix that night and it went pretty smoothly. Problem was, connection tab was very weird, not updating and with odd bugs...especially when a lot of people connected and left very quickly. Now with this patch though, everything is more clean...faster, and works. I have done more 4 vs 4 and 5 vs 5 than i had done in weeks. The only problem i see, is that is harder to get into lobbies now...some NAT problems here and there , but once you get in is pretty awesome.

Whatever you guys did, cheers. Its awesome, it works, it saved the game in my opinion. I loved the transparency you guys made throughout the whole problem and i wish you guys continue doing so, it is greatly appreciated.

On a side note:  Please let us choose if we want to do 3 vs 3 or 2 vs 2 in pantheon...plz...i only like 3 vs 3 up.....i HATE 2 vs 2.   pretty plz?????

with this new update i will commonly lag out of a game completley with no warning (whole game fills with bots)

wut gives?!!?!?

Just played a 4v4, most pings were in the 90-140 range for me, one guy had a 250ish one, and he was 250ish to everyone.

We entered the lobby and connected great, the game started fast.

EDIT: Removed irrelevant stuff.

Well, just downloaded the newest update, and now I can't get into a Pantheon game at all. Every time, it puts me in a group, and after a moment, it kicks me, with the message 'Droped from the game because matchmaking failed.'

Tried about 8 times and no dice.

Beautiful. Still some rejoins needed here and there--it is increasingly obvious who needs to rejoin once everyone's in and ready. The bottom line: the time needed to start a game has been reduced monumentally, at least for me. Thank you so much!

Massive improvement, the people that connect to all are generally significantly greater than those who don't. So getting 4vs4, 5vs5 is actually possible now.

I was just testing joining games, 4vs4 and 5vs5 ones that were mostly filled with 6 or 7 people and was connecting completely to all  as was everyone else in the lobby room. It was also extemely fast connecting to everyone as well.

In previous patches there would have been 0 pings and timeouts.

First let me say I love the game.  And I really appreciate all the hard work and effort you are putting into fixing this as quickly as possible.  Can't wait til the kinks are ironed out so I can get all my friend hooked

I agree with ThePanic71.  Seems like there are two types of users still.  Ones that connect immediately now (where before it was much slower) but there are still users that can't connect to anyone it seems.

I've been very fortunate in that for the most part multiplayer has just worked for me, I've got ports forwarded and I'm on a good solid net connection and a decent computer.  However after this last patch (2nd on the 14th) I've had the hardest time connecting to date.  I tried to join a skirmish probably 5 times before it finally let me into a game.  The first 4 times were all 2v2 matchups according to the connection info and each time there was one person noone seemed to be able to connect to, so it'd drop back to the demigod selection screen with a message about matchup failed.

And I know you didn't ask about connectivity once inside the game, but I ran into a HUGE problem tonight once I finally got into a skirmish.  A few minutes into the game my partner rage quit (thank goodness he was horrible, AI was better).  From that point forward I was getting a Desync error/warning popup every 2-5 seconds.  Talk about infuriating.

I confirmed that the player on the other team was getting the same message.  The game was almost unplayable, because even though the message would pop up and take focus the game would continue in the background.  You'd click okay and it'd go away, but then it'd pop up in a few more seconds.  To make matters worse about 20% of the time if you were in the middle of targeting a skill you'd activated you wouldn't have a mouse cursor, so it made clicking on the okay button with an invisible mouse REALLY fun.

Let me know if you want/need more details.  Otherwise keep up the good work, and keep up the awesome posts letting us know how things are progressing!

-Mid

Garbage. Sorry, but it is for me. Unable to get into any pantheon game at all. I do like the fact that it is trying to set up 3v3 now, but I can't play, nobody ever gets fully connected and I often get booted for some reason before the game starts. I had zero problems up to this point and the new patch is not good for me.

THat being said, I did get into a custom game just now with no problems at all, which I will admit is very nice.

However, I play pantheon a bunch so...

I was skeptical at first, but tonight for custom games went much better than any night before.

Frogboy, any problems I've had with the online connectivity are completely erased. You guys did an excellent job and I commend both Stardock and GPG and everyone else (you know, the coffee makers, spouses, and donut chains) involved in making this work.

The main thing however, that I have noticed recently with the new updates... is that now we got a bunch of people who join 4vs4s and 5vs5s thinking that the update is gonna somehow resolve their slow internet connection speeds. This is obviously nothing that is within Stardocks control as it is usually an uneducated user trying to play 5vs5 on a shit connection, thinking/hoping that new update makes internet speeds better or something.

I suggest making a guideline though for newer players to see detailing appoximately how much upload and download bandwidth is required for each amount of players involved (2vs2, 3vs3, etc). So that users don't join 5vs5s thinking it is somehow Stardocks fault that their connections speeds are slow. Obviously a user like this probably wouldn't know any better, but I think establishing a guideline would help newer players understand what they are capable of with their internet connections in regards to Demigod.

Also, maybe a "Demigod News" section in the multiplayer screen would be excellent. A poster somewhere in these forums already suggested it, so I don't want to take his credit... but it sounds like an excellent thing to do. Newer/causual players wouldn't know anything about the Demigod website and forums, so having a news feed come up when first logging into Demigod multiplayer would greatly help and improve their experience. They could read your blogs and stay abreast of updates and connectivity progress just like we at the Demigod site can.

8/10 compared to how the game had been connecting before.

2/10 compared to ANY other RTS game I have ever played.

I am really glad that the online is starting to shape up but we shouldn't be too excited because it is still way behind how a good RTS should connect.