Unable to connect to any online game

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Title says it all.  When attempting to connect to a custom game one of two things results:

1) im immediately greeted with the error "attempt to join failed"

2) i attempt to connect and hang while attempting to connect and the connection info remains completely black.

When attempting to connect to a pantheon game one of two things results:

1) after attempting to connect for 5-10 minutes, i receive the error i am unable to connect to the NAT.

2) i connect then everyone is dropped the moment the game starts.

 

Im unable to host games, unable to join skirmishes, unable to do anything but single player, not exactly why i bought the game.

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Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

I have been playing Internet Pantheon games all night long, but for the past hour I can't join a Pantheon game.  I get the message that I can't connect to NAT.  During the past hour that I get the "can't connect to NAT" message, I go to Internet Custom Games and hit refresh and there's no games listed.  It's like the whole network is down or something for the past hour.

I'm not using a router, straight from comcast cable modem to my computer.  It was working all night and now 1 hr and nothing whatsoever, it seems like the whole demigod system is down.  

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Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

I have been trying to debug a problem for a friend with the EXACT SAME PROBLEM as OP all night.

My buddy installed from behind his NETGEAR (Not sure what model) router, which is connected to a Westell 2200 Modem with Verizon Service. All ports appropriately forwarded. Nothing for my buddy.

So I DMZ'd his PC. Nothing.
Disabled SPI and any firewalling entirely. Nothing.

Thinking it was some kind of bizarre problem with his seemingly buggy XP install?
I reinstalled Windows XP and redownloaded demigod from the ground up. Nothing.

So. I pull off the router, connect directly to Modem, and disable any and all potential firewalling obstructions that I know of.
Nothing.

So. At this point, it's not anything on the computer or to do with the connection that I can isolate, understand, or fix.

So I upgraded his to Windows 7 to keep the whole formatting his primary drive from having been a total loss.

And proceeded to tell him he is well and truly fucked and to enjoy single player until the guys get their act together.

 

 

Three of my friends and I decided to pick up demigod as an excuse to FINALLY get away from DoTA.

The launch is killing it for us.

 

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Reply #5 from Demigod Forums Top

I am just having the same problem (the latest in a long list of problems) tonight.

I have been able to connect okay (when the game runs that far) until tonight,

and now I keep getting the "could not connect to NAT server" problem.

 

According to some other posts, port 6000 must be open, but mine is so that is

not the issue.

 

*sigh*

 

Reply #6 from Demigod Forums Top

I've had the same problem. I was able to play for a few hours up until ~ 11:30PM EST. I left and when I got back and decided to play I keep getting the same error. "Could not connect to the NAT Facilitator, please try again later."

 

Guessing the servers crashed. The joys of launch week. ^.^

Anyone else tired of the NAT protocal? I really think we should just eradicate it. Who cares about potential mass panic at lack of connection and rampid virus? If it means the letters N-A-T never appear together again then consequences be damned!

 

Well time to get some sleep. Good luck late nighters! Hope the servers come up soon.

 

--Xetoris

Reply #8 from Demigod Forums Top

Yea, it was working fine for me and then suddenly at the same time as you all multiplayer games wouldn't work.  I just don't see any custom games listed, refresh, nothing there.  If I try Pantheon then it's just NAT message.  Servers are down just crash for the night or move on to a different game.

Reply #9 from Demigod Forums Top

Same problem here for me. Last night (01:00 GMT) was fine, lots of Pantheon games without problems (aside from very long connection times) woke up this morning and get the same error messages as described above: Mainly that I failed to connect to a NAT Facilitator, sometimes just one that says "Failed to get Game Info".

I thought that Demigod worked on a P2P system so servers weren't specifically required for gameplay - I had assumed they were just for stat tracking. Or have I got that completely wrong? O:)

 

Looking forward to it being fixed!

Reply #10 from Demigod Forums Top

Same problem, what is most devastating for my brain is Pantheon, when 95% games i try to join say you were kicked. 5% that I host starts with 1 or maximum of 2 players against AI. Is that what I wanted from game when I bought it? Damn p2p... I don't know what else to do? I disabled my firewall, stopped any traffic except windows and demigod. Why must I play with AI in a Pantheon mode? Why can't I join 99% of custom Internet games? Or I have to go to my ISP office and tell them to do something with worldwide peer-to-peer to make it work it should? I am looking so damn forward for Stardock to FIX this as soon as possible. Sorry for my English.