Cant Play The Game Without Internet Connection

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  1. trainsimcz

    trainsimcz Well-Known Member

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    What is this all about ? Why is the game crashing and i cant even start it, load it into the menu if my internet is not working ? With TSW1 i dont have that problem, i can play the game even if my internet is not working but with TSW 2 no luck. I dont see any information on the Store page that this game require 24/7 internet connection to be able to play it ? So is this just a bug which will get fixed or just hidden unannounced feature ?
     
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  2. TheShotte

    TheShotte Well-Known Member

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    Indeed. I cannot play the game on my laptop. It absolutely refuses to start if I am not connected to the internet. I get the Intro movie, and the game just crashes to desktop with a nice "Crash Reporter" window showing up. Game is literally unplayable. I refuse to refund an otherwise great game because of such nonsense, but this is pushing it. I have 55 hours of gameplay time, in that time, the game has crashed on me 8 times. Try doing the same 2 hour scenario 5 times before actually completing it. Before, I thought it was because of some GPU drivers, but regardless of which drivers I was running, it still happened. Now I'm convinced it was crashing because my internet was dropping as my ISP was doing maintenance.
     
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  3. fabristunt

    fabristunt Well-Known Member

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    Same happens to me. This needs to be fixed ASAP, it makes the game unplayable. DTG Protagonist
     
  4. Easilyconfused

    Easilyconfused Well-Known Member

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    There is definitely something wrong here. If I pull the ethernet cable from my PC the game then crashes on startup. If I put Steam into "offline" mode but still have the ethernet cable plugged in then the game starts but apparently is ignoring offline mode since I can read the latest roadmap which I had not read in the game today - the Dovetail Live icon had a ! mark on it and the road map article was marked as new.
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  5. hightower

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    Yep. Our internet went down not long after the game was released and it refused to start, crashing as soon as you fired it up.
     
  6. DTG Protagonist

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    Moving this to the tech reports forum, but this is an issue that has already been reported.
     
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