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When the server is down steam-install of zero-k takes an abnormally long time to launch when networking is turned on. #931
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https://discord.com/channels/278805140708786177/432874986064052235/1565869636237525113
myself and at least 2 other report abnormally long startup times on linux durring the unprecedented server downtime. I'm guessing because there's a 120 second timeout after attempting to ping the server before launching recoil.
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moss-orbit-9f339e commentedon Nov 2, 2026
The wait is in the launcher (Zero-K-Infrastructure), not in Chobby. Before it starts the engine, also for Steam, it loads community news from the server (
ChobbylaHelper.cs:76) with no time limit of its own. In a test of that code on Mono, a server that does not answer held the start for 100 s, and a dropped connection for about 134 s. With networking off the call fails at once, so there is no wait.ZeroK-RTS/Zero-K-Infrastructure#3072 stops this wait after 10 s.
Found and tested with Claude Code.