Discovered issue behind MAC users disconnecting

[Spicyfries]

Hello @broud3r,

I was pointed here by @Civiliznations.

I'm 99% sure I understood why MAC players keep on getting disconnect. I understand this is a long term problem but I believe I have the solution.

After reading up on the issue it was suggested that it may be a particular unit that is problematic. Having laying tons of games on your bots I found out exactly when I get disconnected and what unit causes the disconnects. I have "proof" from 2 games where I ask my teammates not to upgrade that specific unit. The same round or one or two after they upgrade the unit, I get disconnected.

I'm 100% certain that this is the cause for me disconnecting.
I play in EU and ign is "North". You can check my logs form past games when I get disconnected and you will see it all.

If you find this to be an actual problem, I would suggest removing the unit from the game so this bug is not exploited and/or affect the gameplay.

Problematic Unit- Clockwreck

Geomancer (200 MHP;15-17 NDMG;0.8 AS): Geomancer is melee Goblin builder tier 2 tower. With low HP can tank a bit in early game but is almost useless. Can be upgraded into Clockwreck (770 FHP;76-84 NDMG;1.0 AS) which is also melee tower. Can be used in early and mid game as a tank. Clockwreck has Cluster Rockets ability that stuns target in small AOE (at ability tooltip it says that it also deals 10 damage, but it is a bug, because it doesn't deal any damage). Overall decent tank with nice stun ability.


Get in touch with me I would be more than happy to help out.

Thanks!

[YoMama]

Yes it definitely is. Just had a couple of games with disconnects now again, and in one of them I just saw one of my teammates building geo and upgrading to clockwreck after round 3. At the beginning of round 4 I got the disconnect..

@Mods, ist there any possibility of removing geo from ENT (legion) maps? I think this would make life much easier for many mac players, and also for their team mates, as disconnects usually leads to draw or 3vs4... Anyway Geo/clockwreck is not a good unit..

[KiwiLeKiller]

@YoMama
Can you actually provide replays of it? Like substantial proof of your claims?

[ahols91]

I can confirm this.

https://entgaming.net/findstats.php?id=9537707

Notice when orange upped geo he insta dsync xD

[KiwiLeKiller]

@Broud3r
Well, now that is is actually known, maybe a fast patch would help? I believe someone could actually abuse it now that it is public :/

@HazarDous @Art)y @Jabba41 @FalenGa
Now that replays were provided, this topic pretty much only serves Broud3r, maybe you can move it to staff lounge to hide it from any potential malicious people?

[YoMama]

@Kiwi

Here you go: http://storage.entgaming.net/replay/vie ... 537212.w3g
I even announced my teammember that if he upgrades geo to clockwreck I'll disconnect, he tried, and see there disconnect.

Another one: https://entgaming.net/replay.php?id=9537348
Even two desyncs at exactly the same second.

[YoMama]

@Kiwi @broud3r

Any updates on this? It's really annoying, especially as people start exploiting this bug...

[broud3r]

@YoMama @Spicyfries
sorry for the late response
my vacations are over will work on this as soon as possible now.

further do you play on a plain mac os or do you use a windows emulator?
if you dont use a emulator yet i would recommend to do so until i figured out what causes the problem.

[YoMama]

@broud3r

Thanks for the reply! I'm using plain mac os, no emulator. Overall, it seems like this bug has been "published" less and less people are using geo, as the number of disconnects went significantly down. However, there still some...

[broud3r]

the desync is related to the damage of clockwrecks ability which will be replaced soon.