Communication Or "Who's On First?"

[SixShot]

Last night we had some issues with game chat that killed a few of our games. In case this happens in the future can we reach a consensus on what to do? Do we standardize on using party chat since it seems to work for everyone? Do we all go to party chat if there are issues immediately instead of trying to play with limited communication? During a few of the games I could only hear one person out of four which lead to mass confusion. From what Cheech has said there are different TCP/UDP ports opened during chat. My suspicion is game chat is using UDP which has no error correction or handshake to insure delivery of packets to reduce network overhead. With members spread out from Canada all the way to South Florida there are plenty of network hops along the way for traffic to get dropped.

[Ghost]

You were playing with cheech last night so you kinda had no choice. But you know we are normally in a party


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[Bigmak2420]

Yea that was the biggest thing last night was not being able to hear each other. Six couldn't hear me, I couldn't hear cheech it was just bad all around and that is why I almost always use party chat


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[CAG CheechDogg]

And still people don't understand what is happening here ...

When you hop on XBL and you play games without opening a single party chat you "WILL BE" fine and be able to communicate with anyone as long as they too have not started a party chat for that day.

If even one single person started or even joined a party chat they automatically open up a different port which doesn't close back up and prevents the communication in game chat.

When this happens everyone that wants to be in "GAME CHAT" and be able to hear and talk to everyone needs to power cycle their modem, router and XBOX 1 ....

Still people don't believe this and continue to have issues with game chat ....

[SixShot]

So from now on if someone can't talk/hear should they immediate leave the game, bounce their router, modem and XBox then rejoin? If that's the standing order I'm cool with it so we can all communicate and win. It would probably take most people five minutes or so to do this. I don't like dropping match's to douches that talk smack.

I may look to up the logging on my router to see if I can find the offending port. Write a simple script that closes it and we're gold. UDP is crap because it's basically like a message-in-a-bottle. You have no idea if the intended part receives the message where TCP verifies resend if needed.

[Havocizzle]

Yeah that twatnugget last night was irritating. Like being good in a video game is a fucking life accomplishment that gives you the right to be a piece of shit to other people


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