Bulletstorm Connection Problems, Router Question.

[Kilgengoor]

So I've been trying to get to play Bulletstorm through the internet. Its multiplayer is no the best from what I can see, being closer to a console scheme than a PC game. However, I've always have had problems while trying to play over the 'net, so I'd like to ask you fellow Escapists for a little advice.

1- I'm using Comodo Firewall in addition to Avast! over the regular Windows 7 firewall. While it doesn't give me much trouble, I've found it to be pretty restrictive and I'm not sure if it might hamper my multiplayer experience much. I've noticed Comodo has recently blocked many connections from my own router (192.168.0.1:1952) and I don't know if it may mean it's willingly blocking off incoming connections. Don't know if they are harmful tough.

2- It's not just my actual router-ISP-game combination though, I've been trying to play BFBC2 on multiplayer on a totally different place too, and although the connection was a third of what I have now (100kbps versus 300kbps) the experience was quite similar. Ping wouldn't go lower than 150ms, shooting through the roof in moments (999ms) on low-ping servers, both on my old place and now.

3- Someone willing to explain how to get my latence down? I know it's not the same as bandwith, but I don't know what could affect it

4- We've been having problems with our DSL router too, it seems like it "chokes up" if there are many incoming connections. Only P2P that gets to work (barely) on it is Vuze with that speed regulator plugin thingy, and it seems to choke on MP games to. Could be there a plausible connection? -heh... "connection". It seems to have improved after disabling all the Router's security measures except for the buffer overflow control and some connection checker feature.

5- Last but not least, I'm in Europe. Spain, to be precise. I'd connect to European servers if that'd be possible but BS's matchmaking won't allow it, so I guess I'll have to bypass that.

Anyway, suggestions? Pretty please?

 

[Doclector]

Well, I have it on 360, and if by problems you mean finding it hard to get into games with randomers, then I think the problem may be the game rather than your pc, as many people have complained of this.

Beyond that, I ain't too pc-savvy, so I can't help there.

 

[Kilgengoor]

Well, I have it on 360, and if by problems you mean finding it hard to get into games with randomers, then I think the problem may be the game rather than your pc, as many people have complained of this.

Beyond that, I ain't too pc-savvy, so I can't help there.

Yeah, BS's multiplayer has received a lot of flak from what I've been reading on the internet, hope they'll somehow mitigate it with some patches or DLC or whatnot.

Aanyway, I've been able to play for a while by completely deactivating my firewall and opening some ports on my router, which I find horribly unsafe but seems to be the only way to get that thing working. Also, the only other thing that seemed to work was hosting the game myself, which usually happens at random but is the only thing giving me some decent amount of ping-times.

By the way, if anyone knows a way to mute players or a push-to-talk option on that game please tell me. I'm tremendously sick of players that want to tell everyone in the world how much they love their favourite bands by playing the music next to the goddamn microphone.