Dissidia 012: Duodecim Final Fantasy

[Shinoda]

(11-02-2015 03:53 PM)AdamN Wrote:  The previous builds didn't even works with 3 players, but my last builds should works, not sure about 5v5 i only tested it on Group Battle using Tournaments mode.

First of all, What's up. I'm one of the guys from that group who wants Group Battles up and running.

We were able to get 3 people (Including person creating the room) in group battle with the 1.1.0 official release last Friday. Nothing more though. It was finicky but it did work. The limitations appeared to be that whoever hosts the PRO Ad-Hoc Server has to be the one who creates the Group Battle room. That was useful since the host was spectating and streaming on the matches on Twitch. I tried this new build you just put up on my own through localhost (actually 127.0.0.1 if you wanna be picky about it) and wasn't able to even do what we were doing last friday, let alone get 5 emus (including host) in. As soon as I would hit "Start Group Battle" with the host it would say dropped because of connection error.

I did a bit of traffic monitoring before while doing normal 1v1s through the lobby but have yet to try it with group battles... the emulator seems to be all over the place when it comes to ports it uses. Is it me or does it use UDP to connect to the host and then randomly assign a random TCP port between the 2 players when they initiate a match? It's been a while but I remember something ridiculous like that. Might be affecting how the Group Battles operates? Just throwing an idea out there. You probably know way more than I do already about the networking process behind the Ad-Hoc Server. Just a network security student here. I have yet to have full experience of the stuff.

Also, personal request while I'm here... Would be nice to have a way to connect to people without using a VPN or using DMZ... I know it's kind of a pipedream but it's would make things much easier for people who don't know crap about VPNs or worries about vulnerabilities of using something like Hamachi. Maybe a built in Tunneling thing? I don't know... I'm no programmer. I just would love to have the ability to connect to one main server somewhere and connect to people that way. Hell, if it was possible without messing with VPNs and such, i'd pay for a central server to run the basics for all of us. like Coldbird but without the need for people to know how to DMZ (And considering we're talking emulator here and not actual PSP, DMZing your main computer is a bad idea in general).