Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25370154-20151031094114/@comment-25467429-20151031155655

TheTLMguy wrote: BlkThunder001 wrote: I've heard that there were PSN connection issues. If that's still happening I don't know, but that might be the answer. Besides, yesterday I saw a weird situation. The room I entered had one player bugged: he just wasn't being displayed, as if there was one player missing. He only appeared at the mission itself, using a F-5E, but as a CPU that was standing still, frozen on the map. His score was much like a CPU. I've met that bug several times, but it's a very "dangerous" one for me because the last two times I started a mission with a black-icon player, the game crashed and I had to manually reboot my PS3. If I spot someone with that problem when I am still in the lobby room, I quickly leave the group.

As for connection issues, I could start the game normally, and every saving features appear to be fine; but if I try to start a match, I surely get the message I wrote above. So far I reached a streak of 5 D/C. That's definitely the way to go with that blacked out palyer. It hurts sometimes - I've had it happen with a room that just got Stonehenge III, but when you've seen your system lockup before and the only option is a reset, or you've had experience of losing data or hardware over similar situations, you're content knowing you basically lived to fly another day.

These connection issues creep up every now and then. Every week it seems there is a period where the ability to get into a room or to sortie is messed up for a few hours. From past experience it seems to be regional, so I can only assume it's a matter of the way the connection is routed to the servers, since there aren't regional servers. A lot of time it's the last day of a tournament and sometimes you can chalk it up to high load on the servers from a ton of people jumping on at once, but other times it's not so clear why. Nothing to do but take a break and try again later.