Phoenix Online/Multiplayer?

[Smoothound]

Just curious about the general consensus of how well or not this works for most people

I've not really used it till now but today a mate and myself had a couple of quick plays and we found that I couldn't setup a session which I guess is probably my router not setup right but if my mate setup a session I could join fine but the experience was crap to poor.

Both of us could fly fine on out own machines without any real degradation in normal performance but the flight of the other machine was non existent or staggered/delayed at best often consisting of the other heli just sitting at some point on the screen and doing beggar all

We both have reasonable connections to the net so I'm assuming it should work unless it needs something excessive to be any good?

Also bear in mind I'm a PC noddy and not that well read on networking either...

[robgt]

When you have a multiplayer session running, you can view the session information which tells you each users ping value. The lower the value the better (faster "chat" between local and remote computers). If you have a high ping, someone's connection is not good...

If they are both low, and the sim is still clunky, it's possible that one system is clogged up and possibly turning off realtime virus scanning and other programs running at the same time could help.

Opens up a whole can of worms to be honest

I've had mostly good experiences of online multiplayer though...
Cheers,
Rob

[Sesame]

Biggest problem ive had is random connections, ie sometimes it will connect to people other times no chance

[Ade_Law]

generally if im on phoenix i will be in an online session. its not perfect but good most of the time.

Ade

[Smoothound]

Hmmm Odd then guess there is something broken here or there

[Smoothound]

OK think I've lost interest in this as I cannot for the life of me create a session outside of my local network even having faffed with port forwarding etc.

[jamiem]

i find in near impossible to join an online session, but if i host one, then others can join no problem. performance is normally ok, occasionally dropping the session or other users becoming jerky. it is very annoying when mid-way through a move someone joins and it stops for a second or 2. still some work to be done, but its getting there!

[Smoothound]

I can join just buggered if I can host which seems odd as if the ports are open they are open surely

[robgt]

Silly question, but you're not using a password on the session are you?
Cheers,
Rob

[Smoothound]

I was why? How will it stop me from creating a session?

[robgt]

It won't stop you from creating a session, but others can't access it unless they have the password...
I seem to recall having issues with passworded sessions in the past - not sure if that was fixed or not?

Cheers,
Rob

[Smoothound]

We both created sessions both passworded but his session shows up and I can log onto it but mine doesn't even show up when he searches for a session. so it must be a network issue. The Phoenix homepage carefully steers you off to other networking sites as well

[robgt]

I guess they fixed whatever issue it was I had previously then
Must be, as you say, networking issues somewhere...

Cheers,
Rob

[Smoothound]

Just opened all the 9000-9005 ports fully just to be sure although as I said it is working fine for joining just not for hosting which leaves me completely unsure. I can't test it as the wife is on the PC now

[Ashley Davis]

I have to switch my router to DMZ mode to host a session or join one......grrr.