i had the same issue the other night...i was unable to see bases or create plane :( do you have any problems playing the single missions or traks?

Whats the fix for the ServerFailAuthentication error message I get when trying to join either via the Server Browser or HL ?

I have tried exit of CLOD, Exit of STEAM, Reset of Router and PC. Still get the message after around 3 Hrs after it first displayed this.

Do I just need to wait till the server restarts itself ?

@ Woodstock and Oddball : This occured on ATAG server 1 aswell and was fixed by Bliss shortly after..I guess noone noticed the same bug crept into ATAG2 aswell up till now.


@IvanK : The fix is waiting till the server itself restarts and releases all Steam ID's. As I understsand it's something to do with CLOD not releasing the ID's when you have a failure while connecting is in progress or if you cancel connecting as it's busy.
So don't ever cancel while the loading bar is showing or you will be locked out of that server till a restart!
It's the reason ATAG restarts every X hours and also that passworded servers end up showing high playernumbers after a while even if noone is on them. People try connect ,don't know the password so disconnect again..which adds 1 more to the playercount in the lobby.
Quite a horible bug and one that should have been fixed long ago.
http://www.il2bugtracker.com/issues/228

Ok thanks for the info Warhound

Well tbh, we need to have the game fixed 1st. There's soo many things going on in wolfs fantastic missions that the game won't handle much over 15 players when they are on. Network goes to crap, loading time turns into 15 minutes etc. Trust me, we can't wait to be able to use them either :(

Ah that's because we have the options wrong in HL. I'll fix it right now. Thanks for the heads up!

Fixing now. We had the "create planes" section shut off in the HL difficulty section. Ooops! :oops:

Edit: Should be fine now. Thanks for letting us know!

Yea Ivank. That's why we restart the server every mission end. If not tons of people wouldn't be able to play after a 24 hour window. Only way I've seen around the message is to wait until server restart/mission end.

But I believe the bug can only be created if you break the connection while loading into the servers. Just make sure, even if it takes 5 minutes, let it load or timeout without clicking the mouse to disconnect before hand and you should never get the auth error. ( I think!)

thank you!! :grin:

june 2nd constant freezes and reboots on ATAG+fix server (0932 gmt)

perhaps du to the number of payer ?:rolleyes:

The server held 20 players at most that evening, i've flown with more. It was a complete reset, all players dropped. Late in the evening even Clod quit on us.