Have you gotten drop-in battles to work properly?

**Xstar** · March 07, 2010, 09:26 AM

I haven't! Whenever possible I click the buttom which is supposed to give me a "real" opponent in my campaign. But then nothing happens, and I've waited for like 10 minutes before giving up. So have you gotten it to work properly, and whats the key? What am I missing?

**daniu** · March 07, 2010, 10:01 AM

I have gotten it to work, didn't have to wait too long either most of the time...
today was the first time I ran out of patience when waiting for an opponent (didn't wait nearly 10 minutes, more like 1).

**kokonut666** · March 07, 2010, 10:35 AM

I didn't get one working on my side so I went to multiplayer and click drop-in battles. fought a few of those but did't seem to be drop-in "campaign" battles. the last one I fought, Russians fought me at Lodi and the opponent sait he is playing a British campaign.

**Ragga** · March 07, 2010, 10:39 AM

its a yes/no situation... while playing single player campaign, i can easily get one, but when i do the drop in feature on multiplayer; i usually get "quick match" - this i dont mind cuz it is a quick and fair fight!

the only feature that has not worked properly is the "friends only" function... this has yet to work for me and i have pm'd jack/ca but have yet to have a response if it is bugged or simply isnt working.

**~~Heavy Weapons Guy~~** · March 07, 2010, 10:56 AM

No! Because I don't play online!

**daniu** · March 07, 2010, 11:04 AM

Originally Posted by Sultan Mustafa I

No! Because I don't play online!

I don't think "I haven't even tried" was intended to be counted as "no, they don't work"...

**Valbruch** · March 07, 2010, 11:05 AM

From what I've read in other threads there seem to be problems with region settings in Steam - the game only shows campaign games (and drop-ins are tied to camapign games) that are being hosted in your Steam download region.

We tried it with my friend few days ago. With our default region (Central Europe) there were exactly zero hosted campaign games to pick from. But when we changed the region to UK the screen was full of them.

So I guess that problem with drop-ins is the same. Steam only lets you play them with people within the same download region.

**micromegas** · March 07, 2010, 11:10 AM

How do we select our download region in Steam? I'm in a heavy populated portion of the world but have had no luck getting games drop in games.

**Valbruch** · March 07, 2010, 11:16 AM

I don't have access to Steam ATM but as far as I can recall it it somewhere in the Download section in Steam settings. It's quite easy to find it. If it asks you to restart Steam after the change, you made it right

**Graphic** · March 07, 2010, 11:59 AM

Yes. You just have to be patient and wait a while. Sometimes even over 2 minutes. It's worth it though. It also helps to have lots of people on your friends list who play NTW. I don't know how the region-locking works with drop-ins, but I played someone from London who was on my friends list.

**Slaists** · March 07, 2010, 12:08 PM

Yes, I have gotten it to work quite a few times.

Patience is the key. I suspect, the opponent's graphics settings are factored in when looking for a candidate. If, for example, you play on ultra unit size, but there is nobody out at the moment able to handle that size: you get no-one...