Misson vote desync when player is still loading

[vazerd68]

When extracting from any mission, if a player with slow hardware is still in the early stages of coming back to the hub/orbiter and an other players selects a mission, various issues occur.

• Common case reproduction steps :
  • Setup :
    • Host : high performance hardware (high end PC)
    • Client 1 : low performance hardware (nintendo switch)
    • Connection quality and latency does not seem to be relevant.
  • Steps :
    • play any mission with a return to the orbiter
    • extract
    • The host selects a new mission as fast as possible, the loading diamond for the client might not have appeared yet.
  • Results
    • The host sees a mission vote as usual
    • The client, when done loading the orbiter, does not see any mission vote
  • Workarounds
    • The issue can be avoided by waiting for the client to load (no indications on screen)
    • The host can remove the mission vote and select a mission again.
    • The host can force start the mission.
    • It is still very annoying because the client might be waiting for the host to post the mission until the issue is noticed.
  • Frequency
    • Occurs almost every time when playing missions back to back.
• Fortuna, Profit taker bounty reproduction steps
  • Setup :
    • Host : Any
    • Client 1 : high performance hardware (high end PC)
    • Client 2 : low performance hardware (nintendo switch)
    • Connection quality and latency does not seem to be relevant.
  • Steps :
    • play the profit taker part 4 bounty (the boss fight)
    • extract
    • Client 1 selects the same mission as fast as possible, host and client 2 are still in the elevator.
  • Results
    • The mission vote ui does not work
    • Client 2 is stuck at the table
  • Workarounds
    • The issue can be avoided by having the host select the next mission, as he loads last.
    • The squad can be disbanded and created again with the "leave squad" button to regain functionality.
  • Frequency
    • Occurs almost every time when playing missions back to back.
  • Notes
    • I recall similar issues occuring if players leave or join the squad during the mission vote with the initial squad all in fortuna.
• Eidolon hunting
  • Doing the same steps as for fortuna with the tridolon bounty seems related to the bug where no eidolon spawns.
  • Not reproduced lately, no conclusive evidence
  • Never occurs if the host selects. Here the host can cancel the existing vote to systematically avoid the issue.
• Netracells reproduction steps
  • This may be an exploit so I will send it to the zendesk support with a link to this post
• Deimos open world bonus :
  • Steps :
    • Start a bounty directly from the open area and a player leaves during the mission vote
  • Results
    • The mission vote breaks. All remaining players accepting does not start the mission.
    • The player who left is still listed. This is fixed for the host if he opens the pause menu
  • Workarounds
    • The mission vote must be cancelled and restarted to fix the issue.

Hoping you could take a look at these.

Edit : Fixed stray bullet point.

Edited March 22 by vazerd68

[VibingCat]

I can confirm this is true and consistent.