Hey, all. Am I the only one experiencing frequent disconnects from the game entering a lobby or starting the game tonight? Much worse than during alpha phase.
Yea I cannot even start a game with the AI, it just loads and loads and loads and loads, been trying to go against the AI on a 1 planet 2 moon map for nearly an hour now, when about 3 hours ago it started up in less then 3 minutes lol...
And then I finally connect, and within 5 minutes get "disconnected from the server" XD Ah well, it IS Beta.
This is not really server load, most likely it's some bug (or multiple bugs) which result in long loading times. All the time from Beta start I'm trying to get long loading time and every time game loading fast for me.
Also if you running though Steam try to disable Steam Overlay for PA, this improved performance dramatically for some people.
thanks. i'll give it a go... for me the alpha was very fast, something appears to have changed during beta and i had assumed it was initial load on servers or such.
I'm still getting the behavior today (disconnects as well as the 5min starting game screen others have mentioned). I'm using Steam, OS X. Not sure where to disable the steam overlay as mentioned. This behavior definitely hadn't been present in the alpha.
I'm don't sure that overlay issue might affect OS X users, but you can check how-to there: http://steamcommunity.com/app/233250/discussions/0/864980277623586863/
Great news. Here's the official word from the patch notes today: They've also acknowledged the long Starting Game sequence in a previous post as something they're aware of and working on.
