wintry peak
MPT Version:
0.9.8755.33456
Problem:
I, as the server host, can create raids that multiple clients can join and will deploy. And any client can create a raid that I can join and will deploy. But no client can create a raid that loads past "waiting for X players" if another client is trying to join.
Logs:
Not sure my log is going to help here, but it's included.
deep lynx
i had the same issue when trying to connect a client in the same LAN as the host.
i forwarded the ports mentioned in the documentation and connected trough the servers External IP. This fixed it for me.
it is definitely a conenction issue, check your port forwarding and also windows firewall of server and clients.
wintry peak
I have all ports forwarded as the server host, but I haven't got any clients to do so. Everyone has firewall exceptions.
night axle
I am having some people having the same issue. They might be able to do one game as Client - client and then the same thing happens.
This is an accurate statement in my case
@zenith yarrow
wintry peak
I see. I will report back with success or failure after having a client set up the port forwarding.
night axle
Yea, I told them to do UPnP in their settings menu, but I guess the issue still persisted, will report back with aditional data
wintry peak
Is there something to do or toggle with SPT/PFika for UPnP? The port forwarding didn't fix the issue, and I would like to try using UPnP if possible.
Thank you! We are all enabling it now and seeing if that gets around the port forwarding issue.
wintry peak
There are four of us total testing. I have enabled UPnP for everyone in Windows and also in the F12 menu. We all still hang at "Waiting for X players" if a client hosts.
pastel silo
And all the bundles have been sent to all other clients?
wintry peak
Should they not be building their own bundles?
night axle
Should they not be building their own bundles?
Minimizes variances and such
When I distributed a "Mods Pack" to my friends it was with the same files I used, that way everyone is on the same page.
glass pivot
Having the same issue, completely vanilla SPT + MPT. Both clients have their ports forwarded, they can see the raid in the list, but get stuck in the waiting for players loading screen, I can host for both of them completely fine
pastel silo
Having the same issue, completely vanilla SPT + MPT. Both clients have their por...
UDP port issue on their end I'm going to say.
spark ibex
So my friends and I were running in to this exact same issue initially. FW rules were set up, my (the server host) ports were forwarded. We could all join the server, but the only way we could run a raid is if I "hosted" the raid. We would run in to the same thing if anyone else hosted a raid. Our fix was multifaceted. For myself and two of my friends, Enabling Native Sockets and Use UPnP allowed all of us to connect.
However, one of us were still having the issue. The fix for him was to manually port forward 25565. He has a weird managed ISP router, that has UPnP disabled, and can't be turned on. Maybe this well help someone. It's been smooth sailing since!
FYI: Not using a VPN. I use a reverse proxy set up and my friends are connecting using a domain name and not a direct IP address (I host a lot of other servers for other games). But our issue was the same when troubleshooting with a direct IP.
shadow flare
So my friends and I were running in to this exact same issue initially. FW rules...
Interesting, I'm having no issues with opening the ports, the UDP tester also gave a connection, but we are not able to make it work. We get to the port that the client connects to the host, and then a random port (5xxxx - 6xxxx) seems to be used and it times out. Using UPnP fixes this for some reason? (While also saying that the port is already open)
agile mango
Interesting, I'm having no issues with opening the ports, the UDP tester also ga...
The random port is a peer getting assigned.
If it times out, something on your PC or your friend's is killing the connection preemptively.
shadow flare
The random port is a peer getting assigned.
She can't get in due to the port not being open, no?
UPnP opens this randomly assigned port then?
agile mango
No, UPnP opens whichever port you assigned in F12
But you getting that popup means that they connected fine - they get assigned a different port after establishing the connection.
shadow flare
Okay, then why does it time out if UPnP is not on?
agile mango
Because the port isn't open
shadow flare
It is, I get an error saying 'Are you sure the port isn't already open?'
But it doesn't work if I don't turn it on, UDP tester also works fine
agile mango
Did you disable UPnP while doing port forwarding?
You can't use both.
Ah you did
Honestly just get into https://discord.com/channels/1202292159366037545/1226681762256785519
And stream it to me
shadow flare
We're in a raid at the moment, but there's no issue if I enable UPnP and have the port opened btw.
It just gives the error popup and then continues
shadow flare
No worries, that's my bad
final siren
Wait, I thought you were OP.
So currently im running into some problems, Ive opened port forwarding in my router aswell as made acceptions in my firewall. Currently getting issues where i can host a raid but my friend isnt able to find it, then after tinkering alittle more after finding some answers on the support section here on discord it somehow made it to where the IP he put in his launcher no longer works. Says AKI-Server is unavailable but a couple of mins ago he was able to connect to it fine. Not sure what i did wrong here but any help would be appreciated.
agile mango
So currently im running into some problems, Ive opened port forwarding in my rou...
final siren
1. Check your port forwarding again
2. Verify that both your WAN and LAN IPs are...
Allowing relevant .exes in my windows firewall is what caused the issue of no AKI-Server available for my friend. and @zenith yarrow yes we double checked. We thought it was cause of not putting :6969 at the end and still the problem persist.
Could a mod possibly be preventing him from connecting to the raid once i host it? NOTE: i do have several more mods than he does so not sure if this plays a factor.
rapid sedge
do we still need to portforward if we're connected via a lan client like zero tier
agile mango
do we still need to portforward if we're connected via a lan client like zero ti...
Nope.
rapid sedge
hm. struggling to connect though
well it worked for one of us but not the other
we're all connected via zero tier
agile mango
What is not working exactly?
rapid sedge
joining lobby
final siren
having that same problem lyn
agile mango
Lobby as in a session or server?
rapid sedge
session
final siren
i can start the server host but he cant see it nor join it
agile mango
Did you configure the settings in F12 as per the documentation?
If you are using a VPN, you need to put YOUR OWN IP from the VPN in both bind and force IP
rapid sedge
ah, and zero tier counts as a vpn
agile mango
Yes
agile mango
np have fun
glass pivot
UDP port issue on their end I'm going to say.
UPNP disabled itself in f12 from the looks of things. Works good now
night axle
So my guy gets a UPnP mapping failed error when trying to host a game... AFTER he's hosted once before.
wintry peak
Did you disable UPnP while doing port forwarding?
If I'm trying to use UPnP, what do I do to "disable" the port forwarding so I'm not trying to use both?
agile mango
If I'm trying to use UPnP, what do I do to "disable" the port forwarding so I'm ...
Change the port in game to 25566
That way they wont collide
wintry peak
kk will try ty
sudden lichen
Do both people have to have the same mods to run the raid? I have the problem "waiting for 1 player".
wintry peak
Do both people have to have the same mods to run the raid? I have the problem "w...
Generally no. It's possible to run in to some issues with mod discrepencies, but I doubt it could prevent p2p connections.
sudden lichen
thx dude
agile mango
Generally no. It's possible to run in to some issues with mod discrepencies, but...
Did you have any success?
wintry peak
No. Two of my client-side friends just tried with UPnP and moving to port 25566.
wintry peak
Did you have any success?
I've had everyone who is trying to host port forward 6969/6970 and 25560/25565. I've had them all enable UPnP in Windows and MPT and switch UDP port to 25566. I set the ip to 0.0.0.0 in Aki_Data\Server\configs\http.json from being my internal IPV4. Still no clients can host a raid that deploys.
wintry peak
Update: A client tried hosting the server and creating a raid. It cannot deploy (stuck again at "Waiting for X players"). So, the issue has to be with the clients' connections. But I have had them all do the port forwarding, and currently they are connecting to my host using UPnP, so that is also working. What do I test/do from here?
agile mango
Firewall
From my experience, 90% of these scenarios are because of the windows firewall
wintry peak
OK let me check all of their firewalls
Thank you as always for your patience and dedication Lacy
agile mango
It's easier to just allow EscapeFromTarkov.exe on both public and private
wintry peak
Double-checked all firewalls and everyone had EscapeFromTarkov.exe allowed public/private.
agile mango
At this rate it's easier if you get in a VC with me.
wintry peak
Yeah sure I will try to take as little of your time as possible
Let me know when you have time.
agile mango
Do you have one friend available now?
wintry peak
Yeah
fickle berry
soooo did you manage to resolve this? my friends are haveing same issue. One of them hosts server (the host), I and my buddy are two clients connected to server. If I as a client try to host a match, my other client friend sees game, pushes join, i wait for him to load before pressing force start game. When i force start i load into the raid and he is still on 'waiting for x playesr to load'
agile mango
soooo did you manage to resolve this? my friends are haveing same issue. One of ...
Their nat was restricted, couldn't port forward.
Have to use VPN or someone else as a host.
fickle berry
We managed to resolve our case just by checking "enable upnp' in F12 menu
granite perch
Their nat was restricted, couldn't port forward.
any chance you or someone could give me a hand? i am trying to resolve this same error. SIT worked just fine so I know I messed up config somewhere
agile mango
any chance you or someone could give me a hand? i am trying to resolve this same...
What's your error?
granite perch
agile mango
Are you trying to use UPnP or port forwarding? If you already have port forwarding it will fail, try changing your port to 25566
granite perch
our minecraft server runs on 25565-25569, not sure if thats intrusive
agile mango
If you are using UPnP, no? Otherwise yes.
granite perch
nice, i turned of UPnP and forwarded 25550-25555 and it started the server, friend still doesn't see the lobby to join
we're restarting his tarkov rq
agile mango
If he doesn't see the server he is not connected to your backend
granite perch
ill check the console to see
yeah he isn't getting connected
checking his firewall
alright, firewall rule got turned on and the server picked him up, now he's stuck on "waiting for 1 more player"
how long does it usually take to load in as a guest
agile mango
Less than 1 second
granite perch
hmm
agile mango
Your port forwarding isn't working in that case
granite perch
i will keep messing with settings
not sure why we are stuck on waiting for 1 player :/
agile mango
Did you change the port in F12 too?
granite perch
yep, just saw the the server PC did not have a firewall exclusion for MPT
testing with it on
that did not work
also tried force IP and force bind IP
we are both LAN btw connecting through IPv4
does SPT Launcher need 25550 port too?
that seemed to break it lol, "server started on port 0"
flat cobalt
yep, just saw the the server PC did not have a firewall exclusion for MPT
let me know if you figure this out, we're having the same issue right now as well
agile mango
SPT launcher always connects to the port defined in http.json
Force and bind IP is not required if port forwarding is setup correctly, and if using port forwarding you should disable UPnP
You cannot bind to your WAN IP
The computer hosting in-game needs to allow EscapeFromTarkov.exe on both public and private networks
granite perch
ok, this is our config, both identical
agile mango
Send a screenshot of your windows firewall rule for eft
granite perch
agile mango
Were you saying you are playing locally?
granite perch
both of us are connecting to a 3rd server computer
connecting ipv4
it worked ths way on SIT
agile mango
You have to separate some things there, this does not have the option to use a websocket like SIT
Server is the Aki.server exe, port 6969
This can be hosted anywhere
The one who clicks HOST RAID needs to port forward the UDP port, in yur case 25550 I think? That PC needs to have it forwarded, Fika uses a P2P connection.
So let's say you have A B C
A hosts Aki.Server
B will host in game
C will join
A needs 6969 port forwarded
B needs 25550
C does nothing, simply clicks join
granite perch
our network has both ports forwarded, is there some other local method of forwarding? like in firewall?
trying to understand how each machine would forward ports
agile mango
You open a port for a specific address internally, unless your router is different somehow.
If your PC is 192.168.1.15, you port forward 25550 to that internal address
