ME3 (PC) - Problems connecting to Multiplayer / staying connected

*accidental post

I called it a night after that. Today it's working again but I lost all my achievements. I'm not playing through the game again for those. I'll just do without.  If the choices I made through the games mattered, I'd do it again. But since they don't matter and it all ends the same way, no motivation to get achievements again.

That's an unrelated issue, but this works on ME1 and ME2 - I'd expect you could tweak it to work on ME3.

http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/PC_Tweaks#Achievements

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@Pirateguybrush wrote:

Good find.  Could it be related to this?

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=2028035

It indicates problems with iinet, but perhaps issues with Telstra are related.

Alternatively, we could all swap to TPG - I've been considering it for a while anyway, they're cheaper.

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RE: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=2028035

That thread is related to this issue: it follows the iiNet/Westnet investigation of this problem. So is the one talking about Spotify issues to the USA servers (http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=2029356).

It looks like it's starting to get somewhere, so I'll be contributing more there too if Paul G of the iiNet team asks for it. And on the tangent regarding switching to TPG, think hard about it: I'm with them for my mobile services for years and the only reason I've stayed is because they require a written cancellation request and with their price being dirt cheap, I know exactly what I'm paying for (bargain basement service and support).

TPG are cheaper for a reason.

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@Pirateguybrush wrote:

That's an unrelated issue, but this works on ME1 and ME2 - I'd expect you could tweak it to work on ME3.

http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/PC_Tweaks#Achievements

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Side Topic:

Regarding the Achievement trick for ME1 also working for ME3, it failed. ME3 achievements are tied to the saved games but also sync with the Origin Server: when I succeeded in getting online during the 4AM to 8AM window, everything went back to the way it was.

This morning it took 30 seconds to connect to EA servers, and multiplayer appears to be working.  Still a bit long, but it's not 5 minutes.  That's not unusual for first thing in the morning though, so I'll wait till tonight before I start to believe this might be solved.

RE: Achievements, it does sound like some people who can connect to the servers fine aren't getting theirs back.  I know it syncs with the cloud, but if that's still not working you may still be able to use the console to unlock them offline, then go online and have the new data sync up correctly.  It doesn't give you any multiplayer advantages (that I know of), so it shouldn't be bannable as cheating.

It seems that this problem has now been fixed.

Paul Guidera from iiNet over on whirlpool thinks he has solved the problem, and I just logged in with no trouble.

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=2028035&p=6#r104

Happy gaming

Is it fixed for anyone else?  It takes me about 45 seconds from "Connecting to EA servers" to a usable main menu, but it works.

8:42pm WAST using iiNet from Perth and it appears to be fixed for me. Only logged into multiplayer and started a private game on my own so far, but all seemed to work okay. Will test some more tonight, but this is an excellent start for someone that hasn't been able to play in over a month.

Cheers and Happy New Year!

Ralineth.

EDIT: Been playing for a while now and all is good 😕mileyhappy: 

I just played 4 multiplayer games with no problems. If anything it was more stable than before I started having log in issues.

Logging into ea servers takes about 30-60 seconds for me as well, but it's always taken that long for me.

And it's just in time for the weekend, I'm a happy camper 😕mileyvery-happy:

Is there anyone who still has the issue? Please let us know.

Thanks,

Ursula