Worms 4 Online Play Problem

[Longreach]

Hello, i have recently started playing online with some friends in Worms 4 Mayhem and i am experiencing a mystery of a problem which is extremeley annoying. While we play, usually 3 of us, anytime during the game it will exit with loading screen saying game quit because turn-end validation failed. Ive understood this as my pc doesnt send a verification to the server after my turn and the game closes. I'm very frustrated with this problem. I have all the required ports open and i can host fine but the game exits everytime we play, at a random time, we got almost to the end of the game and it closed, another time it closed about 20 seconds into the game.

Id greatly appreciate any help

Thanks in advance

Longreach

[Longreach]

Is gamespy gonna fix this problem, its VERY F**************G annoying.

[Muzer]

If you haven't noticed, this is the team17 forum. Gamespy is that-a-way. (http://www.forumplanet.com/gamespy/?)

[franpa]

is it always after the hosts turn or after a random persons turn? are you ALL using the lastest version?

[Longreach]

Yeah we all use the latest version with the latest patch. It seems to happen randomly.

[Distrance]

I got the same problem :mad: , someone fix this ****, although this started to happen after I tweaked some weapons...did u tweak your weapons longreach

[Muzer]

Oh yeah. Reset all tweaks to the backup file you naturally made (if you don't know what I'm talking about, this probably doesn't apply to you). Otherwise the weapons will do something different on your screen than your opponent's, and it will desynchronise.

[Distrance]

Meh, stupid me, I didnt know this and I didnt backup my weapons =O, what now lol, someone attach here original files ? Also I gave the tweaks to my friend so we were able to play for awhile but it does the same as longreach, random exit, but it doesnt return to lobby, it returns to the screen where u can choose map and continue to next round, but we cant continue to next round cos there is no button to do so. So we still have to rh..

[GrimOswald]

I'm assuming you only wanted WeapTwk judging by your post, so here ya go.

EDIT: I just re-read your post and realised you might be referring to the weapons folder, but I can't get that below 101kbs without seperating it into little bits.

[Longreach]

but it doesnt return to lobby, it returns to the screen where u can choose map and continue to next round
Same thing happens with us, it exits to the area for the next round.

Umm, we didnt tweak our weapons basically what we did was create our own teams and our own gamestyle but we did change the amount of times you could use a weapon. So maybe we did tweak weapons? But it seems to only happen when i play with them, if they play 1 on 1 they told me it works fine, but if i join the session it seems to stuff up.

[franpa]

i assume tweaking weapons is the term used for using external editors to edit the weapons including there appearence... like making a bazooka shoot 10 bullets all at once randomly when spacebar is pushed... with the average power of all bullets equaling the level of power thats determined by how long the user holds fire.

[GrimOswald]

i assume tweaking weapons is the term used for using external editors to edit the weapons including there appearence... like making a bazooka shoot 10 bullets all at once randomly when spacebar is pushed... with the average power of all bullets equaling the level of power thats determined by how long the user holds fire.

Unless you mean Notepad, no, you don't need an external editor. You can just change the content of WeapTwk to do stuff like that. (For their appearance I just back-up and swap .xoms because I'm lazy)

[franpa]

i mean whatever can be used to edit it that is not supported "officialy" by the game... if notepad works then most definatly yes i do mean notepad... plus anything else that can be used...

[Distrance]

Another strange thing is that I am not able to host on wwp, but im able to host on wa, but i am not able to host w4m, why is that. My friend isnt able to host on wa but he is able to host on w4m, and he has nat, I dont. But when he hosts it crashes all the time, even we both had the WeapTwk:s or we didnt have them. My firewall is configured right aswell and NAT has all ports open so whats going on ?

[Muzer]

http://wormsmayhem.com/support.html?subsection=online&online=1#OpeningPorts

[Longreach]

Last night we tried playing with everything default. Default teams and game style and it still happened. I also played online with another person i didnt know and it worked fine. Is there a fix for this problem?

[franpa]

are you al using windows? or a emulator for windows and/or windows based programs?

[Longreach]

We are all running windows xp.