Overview
How to play without server disconnects, while NOT using Steam in Offline mode
How to play Online/Offline PQ’s without Server Disconnect
Okay folks, I have been using this method to play the game with no issues since launch. Give it a try, and enjoy the game instead of letting a silly issue ruin it for you.
This trick forces the game into putting you into an offline Toki Toki city, populated by NPC Time Patrollers.
The constant server disconnection error is because your Online (Single Player) Toki Toki city requests information from the DB:X servers to populate the city with other player’s Time Patroller characters after every PQ and BATTLE.
Enjoy the game by following the steps in the next section!
Expanded Step by Step
1. Have Steam running in online mode.
2. Launch DB:X
3. Once the game is launched and the ‘Press button to continue’ screen is shown press ALT+TAB
4. Disable your network connection or unplug your CAT-5 cable
5. ALT+TAB back to DB:X
6. Select Game Start
7. Ok through the notification
8. Ok through the second notification
9. Select your character
10. Once you are loaded into the offline city ALT+Tab
Your offline city is populated by NPC characters and Time Patrollers, this is how you can tell you are in the offline city.
11. Enable your network connection or plug your CAT-5 cable back into your computer
12. Alt+Tab back to your DB:X game
13. Go to the ONLINE PQ desk and open it (Also Online Battle desk works as well)
14. You will be able to search for and create games with no issue.
15. Play the game with online capabilities without server disconnections
Autohotkey Script
The following script was written by Sponge.. Thank you for your hard work and help to the DB:X community.
AutoHotkey Wikipedia Article[en.wikipedia.org]
^,::
;1.
Run, explorer ::{7007ACC7-3202-11D1-AAD2-00805FC1270E}
;2.
WinWaitActive, Network Connections
Send, {Space}
;3. & 4.
;If the adapter is not the 1st, navigate to it.
;For example, without the comment (semi-colon):
; Send, {Right 1}
;if it is the 2nd adapter.
; Send, {Right 2}
;if it is the 3rd, etc.
;5.
Send, {AppsKey}
Sleep, 250 ;adjust as needed
Send, {Down}
;6.
Send, {Enter}
;7.
WinClose, Network Connections
return
Just get AutoHotKey, make an empty file, then paste that in, save the file, and run it.
If you’re running an adapter that isnt the first in the list, delete the semicolon in the beginning of the “; Send, {Right 1}” line.
Now all you have to do is start the game, press ctrl+, load your character, press ctrl+, to reactivate it, then go to any Online hub thing.
Solution for Online Cleared PQ with no Score Screen
If you are participating in an Online PQ and you have achieved the Clear conditions, but the game does not progress to the final score screen all you have to do is wait for the timer to reach zero. So if you achieved the Clear conditions, and had 07:00 minutes left, you will need to leave your game for seven minutes, at which point the scoring screen will appear.
This comes in quite handy when you finally get that SSJ/SSJ2/SSV/SSV2 skill to drop and the game decides to bug out. I have tested this, and it does work.
Changelog
05-March-2015
- Addition of the Autohotkey script provided by Sponge.
- Addition of the section Solution for Online Cleared PQ with no Score Screen
03-March-2015
- Changed screenshot sizing.
- Minor Format fix.