Connecting to Public Servers

[Xedma]

People as far as I know have had issues connecting to servers after joining a lobby. I think I've figured out how to get a complete connection once the host hits Start.

You need to type in the chat.

I've tested this a bit and that seems to be the major deciding factor on whether or not you can stay connected once the round starts.

edit: more testing has proven that my hypothesis is false. Chat has nothing to do with connection.

[Foxen]

Hmm, I've never been able to join a public game up until now. I tried typing in chat before the game started, and it finally let me in. You may be onto something here...

[Annie Leonhardt]

I had problems with connecting too, I will try this when I'll get to the computer. Beforr when I tried to join a public server only the last server worked. ):

[Azerad]

The reason that most public servers don't work is that anybody can host and attempt to join them. The problem with this is that people who have no idea how PortForwading works will try to make a server but not open any ports, so when random people try joining they have no real way of connecting to the server. Public Server do in fact work! They are laggy when you have a large amount of people and the obvious ping issue but other than that they are fine. There just needs to be a way to filter out servers that have portforwarding and not.

[MysteriousPerson]

The reason that most public servers don't work is that anybody can host and attempt to join them. The problem with this is that people who have no idea how PortForwading works will try to make a server but not open any ports, so when random people try joining they have no real way of connecting to the server. Public Server do in fact work! They are laggy when you have a large amount of people and the obvious ping issue but other than that they are fine. There just needs to be a way to filter out servers that have portforwarding and not.

oh public server need portforwarding thing too ? i thought since it has its own master server, we dont really need to do that again

[Khally]

oh public server need portforwarding thing too ? i thought since it has its own master server, we dont really need to do that again

If you're hosting a server of any type, you always need to forward your ports, as far as I know.

[Azerad]

The reason that most public servers don't work is that anybody can host and attempt to join them. The problem with this is that people who have no idea how PortForwading works will try to make a server but not open any ports, so when random people try joining they have no real way of connecting to the server. Public Server do in fact work! They are laggy when you have a large amount of people and the obvious ping issue but other than that they are fine. There just needs to be a way to filter out servers that have portforwarding and not.

oh public server need portforwarding thing too ? i thought since it has its own master server, we dont really need to do that again

Yeah fengs intro video is sorta a false title if you wanna be technical. The video says master servers are available now but really master servers are servers hosted by either the software it self or the creators of the game (not really a big difference but there is) These public servers use the exact same coding as the regular private ones except now they are well... visible to the public.

[Blizzard2795]

oh public server need portforwarding thing too ? i thought since it has its own master server, we dont really need to do that again

If you're hosting a server of any type, you always need to forward your ports, as far as I know.

Hamachi, Evolve, and all of those types of programs work as well, and it's the much more commonly used method. Obviously that doesn't exactly work for a public server though.

[Khally]

Yea of course. VPNs solve that problem, but we're talking about public servers

[1jc19]

so if I port-forward my router, I can run a public server?