Launcher had got updated yesterday when I logged in (around midday GMT 15th June) and everything went without a hitch.
Apparently the maintenance brought another launcher update as it's now been stuck looping the same 48meg patcher over and over at a painfully slow rate even though all the bandwidth is being used by it.
Been 30 minutes of this nonsense so giving up and trying again tomorrow
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Also, since last patch every time I start up the gameclient it downloads a fresh 50-100MB launcher update. I've got slow home internet (up until they finish rolling out fiber anyway) that I supplement with cellular, and on home internet it downloads ~50MB, but on cellular it downloads 100+MB instead. Both phone, home router and DSL modem have been restarted fairly recently.
Logging in through Steam or directly through the launcher doesn't seem to have any influence on this. I attempted to Force Verify on one of my attempts, but literally the exact same thing happened as before. I don't understand what is happening.
If it matters, my launcher says it's version CL_2023_06_26_11_16.
Is anyone else having this issue, or am I alone in this?
Caught it looping the first time around and killed it rather than have it chug through the same 100 megs over and over
Finally I managed to log in BLIND. Proud of myself. Game update went fine.
You can only kill these processes via TaskManager (or reboot if your uncomfortable with such things).
Cryptics less than stellar QA strikes again
Update: i started getting a file error on my launcher. below is the fix. after that it should work.
Go into your taxk manager in windows and terminate all cryptic launcher sessions showing up in your task list,
Then restart your game and it should be ok.
Of course, this was only a week after I purchased a Lifetime Subscription. Oh what a fool am I.
Currently have 3 entries sat in task manager refusing to be end tasked unlike the other couple from todays round of risa
Along with that I have a problem where the launcher starts out white, then goes to the correct color after it slowly loads in. Before the maintenance, I had two consecutive days displaying the message: "The website is experiencing technical difficulties. Normal gameplay is not affected." The rest of the days I have not had that problem.
@baddmoonrizin @rattler2 @darkbladejk Please bring this to Cryptic's attention. Thanks.
I have been having the same issue tonight. It worked fine last night. It tries to update the launcher starts at 112.6 MB, gets down to the lowest I have seen is 96.9 mb, then it restarts, and says "trying to connect to server 11 times"
Only 1 instance in my task manager
What the issue is: Since this mornings patch, I have been unable to open the launcher. Running on Steam, Windows 8.1.
What steps you already tried when attempting to resolve your issue (if applicable): Multiple restarts. Launcher just trying to repatch, over and over, but never actually opens to log in.
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Took 8 attempts till I got the launcher up. Got into game and was stuck inside the wall of the Floater vendor on Risa. Was able to beam out and back down though to play my daily and continue playing as normal.
I have killed all process linked to STO and Cryptic, restarted the computer, restarted the router, and tried a different computer. None of these things have resolved the issue.
I found just being patient (although frustrating) and let it keep looping it did eventually end and the launcher appeared.