Summary:
Whether hosting a game or joining a pre-existing one, gameplay does not begin (for reasons unique to each circumstance).

Description:
If I join a game of FE:L, it correctly places me in the game party and works its way through the list of checks and loading it has to do.  The loadout selector does appear and I am able to scroll through all the choices, as well as team color choice if available.  After I click the Ready! button when it becomes available, it says "Waiting for host to start," and never progresses any further.  The "check to see if you have access to the content" never completes, and in the playerlist, other players even reach the "Playing" status, where mine still says "Ready."  If there is anything else I am supposed to click, I cannot find it.

EDIT: I have also tried joining a game that has not yet started.  When the host starts the game, I hear the game-start noise, and see everyone else go to Playing status, but I am still stuck in the lobby at Ready.  (/edit)

If I host a game of FE:L, I can set up all the options and whatnot, that all seems fine.  When I click the "PLAY NOW" button after it appears, the settings GUI disappears and shows just the red FE:L logo in the background, with a little loading circle.  After a couple of seconds, the Back/How To Play buttons in the lower left will disappear.  And then nothing else happens, even after waiting some 15 minutes while doing other things and clearing the away status when it is set.  It does not seem to matter which map, mode or team I picked, the little loading circle continues to rotate, and nothing else happens.  My name on the party list also says "Playing" in spite of this.

Reproduceability:
100% of the time.  I have yet to play this game.

Other notes -- using Firefox 2.0.0.14, Flash 9, and Windows XP Home SP2.  The only USB devices attached are my mouse and keyboard.

Thank you for the excellent bug report, unfortunately I can't see anything obviously wrong with your system specs that would cause the problem.

Could you try testing other games on Instantaction please? That way we can see if its a legions-specific issue or not.

In terms of troubleshooting this appears to be an IA-side issue so the support site at http://support.instantaction.com may be able to help, especially if you place a ticket with them.

I was unable to join a game once, i clicked ready, and it still said waiting for host, even after it said he was playing, but has only happened once so far.

Thanks for the quick reply.  I did already check out the troubleshooter and KB articles there, nothing particularly seemed to help, though it did lead me to try unplugging my other USB things of course.  I guess after this I'll register a ticket there.

- Rokkitball works fine (and I will admit to wasting several minutes on it once I was in-game).  Unfortunately it eventually froze Firefox and required a force-quit before I finished the round, but it was still fun, and did actually let me play.

- ZAP doesn't work.  Whether in training or multiplayer, I choose the map and other options, and try to start the game.  I will see the game's interface come up for no more than a split-second, and then it says "game ended in a tie!" and shows the postgame screen.  I can retry this as many times as I want and it does that each time.

- Cyclomite works, though I get oddly bad framerates on it with this being the only other open tab.

- Thinktanks works, and only momentarily froze Firefox a little bit after I finished a bot match and clicked this tab to report on that.

- Marble blast works, though after going through a couple levels the framerate got poor and choppy like Cyclomite, and my mouse seemed to start "springing" back to a certain camera position.

So all in all, everything else seems to work, aside from ZAP, which seems to have a problem of its own.

Man, i wish there was still a download for IE6\7. That sounds buggy as hell!

Well if you do get this sorted out, its likely you will not need to join gameas as you likely will be able to host them.

hmm, maybe try IE7.

I have the same problem. My only other problems are in rokkit ball i can every other game without lag but in between it lags terribly.

I am using firefox.

Same problem here, only managed to join a game once, at the first run, since then cannot join or host, exact same prob, ready status while others are playing, seen a few other people complainign of the same problem in lobbys with ready status.

I saw something mentioned about this bug maybe happening to people with AMD dualcore X2 processors ?


...Ive seen other games, older ones, having trouble when both cores are running on a pogram but it not being a problem with intel dualcores, Rune comes to mind.
Dont know how to make windows set the affinity for legends.exe before it launches though, gotta be a way, ill try.

!!

I think it is an issue with Firefox, or possibly Athlon X2's and firefox.

I've had no issue connecting using IE7, however I just attempted to connect using Firefox 3, and I get the 'connection error' message when I try to connect to a server (in this case one of the dedicated servers).

Nope ie7 gives exact same prob

forgot to precise:  AMD X2, running windows XP SP2, ati x800gto2 lastest drivers, firefox 3


Another thing, i hear sounds and the legions.exe is running in taskmanager

I was loathe to, but I resorted to trying IE6.  Don't care enough to get 7, I don't ever use IE.  In any case, slightly different look, exact same problem.  Oh well.

I think it may specifically 939 amd dual cores. All the people I've seen this with have have low x2 opterons and athlon x2s, I havent seen any people with  5000+ x2s complaining about this. I have an opteron 170. It's strange, the first game I attempt to join after restarting my computer will load fine, but all further games will wait for host forever.

yep, i have socket 939 with Athlon X2 4200. Except for me it wont run at all anymore after the 1st run.
We need a fix for this

I sent in a ticket on the support page a few days ago telling them it was 939 x2s. But I don't think anyone has even read it yet.  Compat bugs are just as severe as crash bugs, so this should have high priority. Would be nice if a forum mod could tell QA about this.

The QA and support departments do read these forums, and if you have sent a message to the support department then (barring rare cockups) it will have been read, if not necessarily responded to.

Nevertheless, I will pass this on