Does the game require constant connection to PDX servers now?

[Skyfus]

People have been complaining a lot about random crashes since Leviathan released, but I've only just got my first freeze... at the exact same time my router died for a minute... and then it recovered a couple seconds after my router did.

What gives? I thought we could play this offline, since the only data it has to check for is achievement stuff?

 

[ImAdrian]

The only thing i can think of, is that maybe you have a steam cloud save? then when it autosaves the game it tries to save it to the cloud

 

[Skyfus]

The only thing i can think of, is that maybe you have a steam cloud save? then when it autosaves the game it tries to save it to the cloud

Meaning they stealth changed my settings during the update, nice

 

[Skyfus]

I've just checked and this is how it was when I found it. Shouldn't be a cloud thing

 

[Travis_Bickle]

People have been complaining a lot about random crashes since Leviathan released, but I've only just got my first freeze... at the exact same time my router died for a minute... and then it recovered a couple seconds after my router did.

What gives? I thought we could play this offline, since the only data it has to check for is achievement stuff?

I had this on Emperor. My crappy internet would cut out once in a while and it would crash the game.

 

[brifbates]

If you're playing ironman then getting disconnected should get you an alert that if you continue you'll lose ironman status/achievements but other than that being offline shouldn't be a problem for the game. Of course with the lack of testing and/or fixing broken things that should have been reviewed by QA in any sane QA process it's entirely possible that system, too, got broken in this patch.

 

[gigau]

to the Tech Support subforum.

 

[AndrewT]

The only thing i can think of, is that maybe you have a steam cloud save? then when it autosaves the game it tries to save it to the cloud

That cannot be the issue as saves are not written to the cloud during play, only to a local Steam cache. They are synced up to the cloud when you exit the game.

People have been complaining a lot about random crashes since Leviathan released, but I've only just got my first freeze... at the exact same time my router died for a minute... and then it recovered a couple seconds after my router did.

What gives? I thought we could play this offline, since the only data it has to check for is achievement stuff?

I can't account for this, nothing should have changed in that area. If you unplug your machine from the network does the same thing happen?