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<blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 8113835" data-attributes="member: 50987"><p>Was it just us? Or was Roll20 acting very strangely last night?</p><p></p><p>We have been playing a 5E Eberron game on Roll20 ever since the pandemic struck, and it's been going fairly smoothly for the most part. Sure, there would be the occasional dropped connection or stuck video feed, but nothing that couldn't be fixed in a few seconds by reconnecting or refreshing the browser. But last night? Last night was <em>dumb.</em> </p><p></p><p>The dynamic lighting kept messing up: one player would lose sight through their own game token and start seeing through a different player's token.</p><p></p><p>The audio and video kept messing up: different people would only be able to see and hear one or two other players, and reconnecting wouldn't fix the issue...instead, it just shuffled the players. (You can see Bob and Sue, but not Carl and Eric? Reconnect, and now you can see Bob and Carl, but not Eric or Sue. Reconnect, and now you can only see Sue. Reconnect, and you can see everyone <em>except</em> Sue. Sue reconnects, and she can see you just fine but can't see Eric, and can only hear Carl. Etc.)</p><p></p><p>The maps kept messing up: first, the map wouldn't load until you moved your token...and then the map would disappear if you moved your token again. The compendium kept messing up: you'd try to look up a spell or a monster, and it would freeze the game for several seconds and never display the results...until half an hour later, when it would flood your screen with every failed search result all at once.</p><p></p><p>We tried everything we could think of. We tried reconnecting, we tried closing and restarting, we tried clearing our browser caches, we tried dis/enabling our VPN, we tried using Edge, Chrome, and Explorer, we tried restarting our routers. We eventually switched our audio and video to Discord and only using Roll20 for the battle mat and dice roller...but with only half of us able to see the map or roll dice at any given moment, it was still just a frustrating mess. We ended up quitting the gaming session early, right in the middle of an encounter, because we couldn't get the technology to cooperate.</p><p></p><p>I love Roll20 as a virtual tabletop...but last night was unacceptable. The <a href="http://status.roll20.net/" target="_blank">Roll20 Server Status website</a> says there were no issues...nothing but green checkmarks on all servers for last night and the past several days...but we beg to differ. Was anyone else having issues?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CleverNickName, post: 8113835, member: 50987"] Was it just us? Or was Roll20 acting very strangely last night? We have been playing a 5E Eberron game on Roll20 ever since the pandemic struck, and it's been going fairly smoothly for the most part. Sure, there would be the occasional dropped connection or stuck video feed, but nothing that couldn't be fixed in a few seconds by reconnecting or refreshing the browser. But last night? Last night was [I]dumb.[/I] The dynamic lighting kept messing up: one player would lose sight through their own game token and start seeing through a different player's token. The audio and video kept messing up: different people would only be able to see and hear one or two other players, and reconnecting wouldn't fix the issue...instead, it just shuffled the players. (You can see Bob and Sue, but not Carl and Eric? Reconnect, and now you can see Bob and Carl, but not Eric or Sue. Reconnect, and now you can only see Sue. Reconnect, and you can see everyone [I]except[/I] Sue. Sue reconnects, and she can see you just fine but can't see Eric, and can only hear Carl. Etc.) The maps kept messing up: first, the map wouldn't load until you moved your token...and then the map would disappear if you moved your token again. The compendium kept messing up: you'd try to look up a spell or a monster, and it would freeze the game for several seconds and never display the results...until half an hour later, when it would flood your screen with every failed search result all at once. We tried everything we could think of. We tried reconnecting, we tried closing and restarting, we tried clearing our browser caches, we tried dis/enabling our VPN, we tried using Edge, Chrome, and Explorer, we tried restarting our routers. We eventually switched our audio and video to Discord and only using Roll20 for the battle mat and dice roller...but with only half of us able to see the map or roll dice at any given moment, it was still just a frustrating mess. We ended up quitting the gaming session early, right in the middle of an encounter, because we couldn't get the technology to cooperate. I love Roll20 as a virtual tabletop...but last night was unacceptable. The [URL='http://status.roll20.net/']Roll20 Server Status website[/URL] says there were no issues...nothing but green checkmarks on all servers for last night and the past several days...but we beg to differ. Was anyone else having issues? [/QUOTE]
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