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punkyl337
Seasoned Novice
5 months ago

Having trouble joining a redsec game with my son (same house)

Hi,

we have seperate EA accounts and seperate PC’s. Each time we party and try to join a duos game, only one of us goes through to the game and the other one looks like it’s about to load in but then stays in the lobby.  

Any reason why this is happening or how to fix it please? Very annoying, just trying to play some games with my son. We’ve never experienced this issue with any other multiplayer game.

Thanks

8 Comments

  • DarthFDG's avatar
    DarthFDG
    Hero+
    5 months ago

    Since you're both using the same router (I'm assuming), you're both showing the same IP address to the EA servers. This can be problematic. 

    One of the following may fix your issue.

    • configuring UPnP on your router
    • using a VPN (only one of you needs to do this)
    • get static IPs from your ISP
  • punkyl337's avatar
    punkyl337
    Seasoned Novice
    5 months ago

    Firstly, thank you for your response. UPnP is already on.  ISP recently changed us to dynamic IP’s due to severe drop out issues from tempting in to work and other some other games. So I can’t go back to static. 
    secondly we’ve never had this issue with other games we’ve played, we’ve even had 4 people in the same party/game with no issue. Seems bizzare we would have to use a vpn  just to play the same game. Fortnite overwatch etc have not had these issues. Would not expect an issue like this with a AAA title

  • DarthFDG's avatar
    DarthFDG
    Hero+
    4 months ago

    "we’ve never had this issue with other games we’ve played"

    A common phrase in gaming forums, which makes those of us who have been at this for decades chuckle. Newer games almost always push the barriers and cause us to update gear and configurations.

    The architecture of your others games, including how they handle server load balancing, could be different than what we're seeing with BF6. I can't say for sure, because I haven't seen the detailed architecture.

    You can subscribe to a VPN service very cheaply to see if that changes anything.

  • REVRSED's avatar
    REVRSED
    New Spectator
    4 months ago

    This is happening with me too though. Not sharing internet, different accounts. Duos is just bugged from what I've seen.

  • XQCl's avatar
    XQCl
    Rising Novice
    4 months ago

    Having the same issue here, same house. Did you find a fix for it? It was working fine in the past couple of days 

  • punkyl337's avatar
    punkyl337
    Seasoned Novice
    4 months ago

    Their offical response was me to basically get a VPN as the best solution. There’s some other convoluted technical solutions but it was insane to even do all that. They said it’s how their network code is, which is incredible because no other multiplayer game we’ve played has had this issue (and we’ve played lots)

  • punkyl337's avatar
    punkyl337
    Seasoned Novice
    4 months ago

    Yes yes, I’ve also been at this for decades bud hence I’m now playing online with my kids. The fact is no other multiplayer game we’ve all played (and there has been lots) has had this issue. A huge company like EA having this issue is ridiculous. End of story

  • DarthFDG's avatar
    DarthFDG
    Hero+
    4 months ago

    Yes, this is what I said earlier.

    I'm not suggesting it's good or bad - just that the architectures are different and comparing to other games is futile. EA may have made this architecture choice for better performance - don't know.

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