Since the update MP is unplayable (for me)

[jayzhead]

Well, I'm officially giving up for now. I've tried to play MP for the past three days, but I cannot get 20 minutes in without my train becoming a ghost train. By that I mean it freezes on the live map (even though it keeps displaying the speed) and the dispatchers see me frozen in place - while the game on my end seems to keep running fine - until the next signal that is, when no matter the aspect I get stopped and thrown back to the signal. I lose all ability to communicate (chat and push-to-talk don't work although I can hear others talking). The only way to fix it as far as I can tell is to completely quit and then take over the train again from the main menu, only for it to happen again after a while. Turning the bot on and off doesn't fix it. It happed to me seven times now during three runs, and the last one I did was just now when the server hardly had anyone in it, so it's definitely not overcrowding that is causing this.

I can't be the only one this has happened to, can I? I hadn't seen any posts about it. Is it just on my system? I know this is early access and all but before the update the game was always rock solid for me. Now it's just unplayable. 😶

[Zulnex]

I was just about to make a new thread regarding this, but I'll post here instead.

Multiplayer is unplayable for me as well.

Since the last update, I've been having lots of issues too. I was stuck at a red signal on multiple occasions across several different servers (only about 20 players). It doesn't matter if the dispatcher is human or AI. All the trains were stopped with nobody being able to move. I had to give my service to a bot. When the trains did pass me, their movement seemed very sluggish (almost like rubber banding back and forth).

Before the update, I never had any problems. Not sure why we are experiencing these issues honestly. Could it be because of new extra services?

I'll stick to single player for now until this is resolved. No other choice unfortunately.

Edited November 23, 2023 by Zulnex

[SugaCane]

They released an Update that improoved the Server connection. Just try it out after you doenloaded the Update. Should be better now.

 

[Zulnex]

Thank you for letting us know. I didn't realize the new update was released. I'll try it now.

Edited November 23, 2023 by Zulnex

[BigVern]

This just serves to highlight why we need a decent single player game ASAP, as a fall back position.

[jayzhead]

[Played a couple of hours today, seems that there is no more ghost train bug since the patch came out. Yay. ]

EDIT: Yeah, scratch that. Bug is still totally there. Just had it happen to me three times during a run 😶

EDIT 2: Wow, now it seems to be much worse than before... Tried to continue that run and the server kept "ghosting" me every few minutes, I had to disconnect and re-enter into the game, happened four more times then I finally gave up. All that in a single run.

Seems to be worse on the Sedziszow line than on the main trunk, it seems. Then again it might just be completely random.

Well, back to waiting for another patch, I suppose.

Edited November 25, 2023 by jayzhead