Catan Universe News

- Savegames work properly again

- Playing Rivals and then the CATAN boardgame is now possible again

- 2 Players and 1 AI can now start Custommatches again

- Viking Table assets no longer cause graphics bugs

- Tutorials load properly again

Hi Catanians,

Tuesday March 3rd Catan Universe servers won’t be available starting at 11 am.

The maintenance is used to roll out Catan Universe 1.8.6. The latest version will include several fixes for save games and tutorials as well as custom match fixes.

Dear Catanians,

In order to release Hotfix 1.8.5 we will perform server maintenances on Feb 11. at 11 am [CET].
The server maintenances might take a few hours but we will do our best to keep the downtime as short as possible.

Here you can read up on the changes we made with Hotfix 1.8.5:

- Loading screen for multiplayer matches will now bring you back to the main menu if the match can´t get loaded correctly

- If an Automatch fails to load correctly player won´t get Karma or Elo deducted

- The process of reconnecting to an online match has been streamlined

Hi Catanians,

We have been able to identify and also resolve an issue with our servers.

Since January 1rst we experienced unusually high response times from our servers that sometimes surpassed 500ms which is about 100 times more than our average.

The high response time caused a variety of issues. Most notably error messages while queuing for matches or error message during matches.

The root cause for the high response times has been performance issues of some of our underlying Databases.
We optimized the way we address those databases and already applied that fix last evening. For the past 12 hours, we saw the response times being back to normal.

This was the first crucial step in getting Catan Universe back on track. Meanwhile, our dev team has been working on Hotfix 1.8.5. With the servers back to normal, we can test the Hotfix under realistic circumstances again.

If you are still experiencing issues with error messages, first please manually log out and back into your account to establish a new connection to our servers. Also, please let us know via our support channels.

The CATAN Universe Team

Hi Catanians,

or developers finished working on the CU 1.8.5 Hotfix and we will start testing right away. The Hotfix will disable Elo and Karma calculation if a match can´t get initialized properly.
If you get a message after the loading screen that the match was canceled, there won´t be an Elo or Karma reduction anymore after Hotfix 1.8.5.

In addition, we added advanced logging mechanisms that will help our developers to identify issues much faster in the future.
Once we have finished testing the Hotfix we will let you know.

Please remember this is only step one of the actions we are taking to resolve multiplayer issues in Catan Universe. The Hotfix “only” disables Elo and Karma calculation for the corrupted game starts.

Our team is still working full speed on re-coding the entire matchmaking system. The advanced logging will help us to identify the current “breaking points” more easily.

The CATAN Universe Team