Stuck on waiting for players to load | Project Fika | Page 1

wooden gorge May 5, 2024, 8:19 PM

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So I've been pulling my hair out on this one I've tried everything (even both of using fresh installs with just Fika and spt) and we can't seem to get past the waiting for players piece. If we load in solo there are no issues. both on SPT 3.8.1 and the latest Fika build.

Hosting via VPS using Radmin and I can ping my brother no issues. We have followed the all the guides including checking firewall etc and just can't seem to crack this it was working fine before we moved to 3.8.1 so we decided to just full nuke everything and start again. Anyone have any ideas on what we may have missed.

Things we have tried

Full fresh install just using Fika
Binding IP via the F12 menu
Trying to load solo to see if it works (which it does)
We have also tried both of using hosting
My Http json file has the VPS IP in the IP and fallback IP field my brother has his has as the default 127.0.0.1
We checked firewall entries on both Tarkov launcher and the AKI.Server

signal pond May 5, 2024, 8:26 PM

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My fix was through portforwarding, idk if it works on VPS but try turning on UPnP and changing the port number to 25567

wooden gorge May 5, 2024, 8:39 PM

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Tried that no luck it seems

wooden gorge May 5, 2024, 10:03 PM

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any ideas?

wooden gorge May 5, 2024, 11:38 PM

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Dropping in server and client logs not sure what else this could be. spent some more times trying to get around this but for the life of me I can't figure out what the issue is. If anyone has any ideas on what else to try let me know!

📎 launcher.log 📎 server-2024-05-05.log

eternal quest May 6, 2024, 12:10 AM

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My fix was through port forwarding as well, double check that UPNP is making a second UDP port and remember you don't need to make a second UDP port if you have UPNP enabled

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Your internal ip address that you set up for the TPC port should also be your pc ip

wooden gorge May 6, 2024, 8:43 AM

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does this looks correct

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stiff lichen May 6, 2024, 8:53 AM

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For 6969 just to be sure, add udp to

untold grove May 6, 2024, 8:59 AM

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Send me a picture of your VPN and F12 settings

wooden gorge May 6, 2024, 9:06 AM

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untold grove Send me a picture of your VPN and F12 settings

If I'm port forwarding I don't use VPN from what I can tell from the documents is that correct?

We were using Radmin but as it wasn't working and based on the suggestions in this thread I thought the fix was to no longer use vpn and just run via port forwarding?

untold grove May 6, 2024, 9:07 AM

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Yeah, if you can port forward that is objectively faster and better

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If you are using UPnP, change the port to 25566 in the F12 menu.

wooden gorge May 6, 2024, 9:09 AM

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Yup will do just wanted to make sure all my router settings were solid before I jumped back in!

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I will report back once my bro is online and we have managed to test

wooden gorge May 6, 2024, 9:27 AM

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untold grove If you are using UPnP, change the port to 25566 in the F12 menu.

just to confirm my understanding of this I don't need to use UPnP if its enabled in my router correct?

untold grove May 6, 2024, 9:27 AM

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No, opposite

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If you have UPnP enabled in the router, enable it in F12

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Or disable and use standard port 25565 if you have UPnP disabled and 25565 forwarded

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Either works

wooden gorge May 6, 2024, 9:29 AM

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this is how mine is atm

untold grove May 6, 2024, 9:29 AM

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Change 25565 to 25566

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Or disable UPnP since I saw that you hard 25565 forwarded

untold grove May 6, 2024, 9:29 AM

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wooden gorge

here

wooden gorge May 6, 2024, 9:29 AM

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ok will disable it and try that first

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cheers

wooden gorge May 6, 2024, 10:11 AM

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so i cant seem to get the launcher to fire any more after closing and re-opening

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seems to just sit on this stage

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then after a whilse I get this

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if I set it back to 127.0.0.1 in the launcher>settings>URL it then works

untold grove May 6, 2024, 10:39 AM

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Then your router doesn't support nat loopback

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Just keep it at 127

wooden gorge May 6, 2024, 10:46 AM

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for my brother as he is just a client he does have to use my IPv4 address tho correct?

untold grove May 6, 2024, 10:56 AM

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wooden gorge for my brother as he is just a client he does have to use my IPv4 address tho co...

Yes

wooden gorge May 6, 2024, 11:01 AM

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cool will try that shortly

wooden gorge May 6, 2024, 11:01 AM

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untold grove Then your router doesn't support nat loopback

correct I just did a google to see that it does not

shy mango May 6, 2024, 11:28 AM

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I was curious about being stuck on waiting for 1 player and whether or not it's relevant to this.

wooden gorge May 6, 2024, 11:49 AM

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Once I test I will let you know

left fable May 6, 2024, 11:50 AM

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I have the same problem. Managed to work but my buddy, if killed, stays up like nothing

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didn't had this issue with the previous version for aki 3.8.0

untold grove May 6, 2024, 11:51 AM

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Before people start asking more questions.

This is a user error

Make sure to read this carefully please: #announcements message

wooden gorge May 6, 2024, 1:06 PM

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Just managed to test on my brothers machine so he isn't launch the aki.server and just the client which I believe is the correct process. He has then gone into Launcher -> settings -> adjusted the IP in the URL field to reflect my IP taken from https://ipv4.icanhazip.com/ and making sure to leave the correct formatting (so http://xxx.x.x.x:6969) not trailing backslash either. When he goes to use the launcher it just loops and then says failed to connect. Ive checked over the Fika install guidance and I believe we are following everything 1:1

untold grove May 6, 2024, 1:06 PM

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Are you guys in the same house?

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And is anyone external supposed to play with you?

wooden gorge May 6, 2024, 1:10 PM

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Nope we live apart and its just us two

untold grove May 6, 2024, 1:11 PM

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Can you get in VC?

wooden gorge May 6, 2024, 1:12 PM

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Will be able to in about 10 mins if thats cool

untold grove May 6, 2024, 1:13 PM

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@me when

wooden gorge May 6, 2024, 1:37 PM

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untold grove @me when

going to be a while I think brother just called on site to fix an issue but i will drop you a message when we are free. Thanks again mate been a hero so far!

wooden gorge May 6, 2024, 2:13 PM

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I think I may have found the issue here at least with port forwarding. I checked a few port checkers and they all come back closed. After some digging it seems like my ISP uses CG-NAT which won't allow port forwarding to work so I guess that is out of the question unless I pay the difference and make my IP static. Going to swap back to Radmin to see if that works and will let you know if we still get stuck as we moved to open ports because we couldnt get VPS working

untold grove May 6, 2024, 2:14 PM

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Ok

#Stuck on waiting for players to load

This is a user error