So, Earth Defense Force 2017 (360, PSV) looks amazing

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

$40 download
Had a good time with Yoshi and bbobb and a little mzo appetizer.

[Yoshi]

It's worth every penny of the $40. I need to hire an Italian health farmer like Mzo to boost my shit though.

[GohanX]

Eh, I just had a guy buy a Neo stick from me for $40. It must be fate.

[bbobb]

Making fun of Yoshi with Yoshi's kid was fun.

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

Buy it!
Then we can both feel like fools when it is on sale or better yet free for PS+ next month.

[GohanX]

Fate is not on my side it seems. PSN is being a dick and not letting me purchase the game with either the Vita or the PS3.

[Mzo]

Well, we managed to get a 4-player party going, but I had NAT issues with SSJN and couldn't hear him talk or watch him do anything in-game. I gave the Vita a static IP and I guess I can try forwarding the right ports, but that didn't work on the 360 and I don't expect it to work here.

That aside it worked pretty damn well! The only weird thing is that minimizing EDF makes you drop your connection to the lobby, so you have to set up the voice chat party ahead of time.

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

I've never encountered anything like that before, but then again I rarely play online.
Is there anything I should be doing on my end?

[Mzo]

I just checked my Vita settings and I'm connecting with a NAT Type 2, which should let me play with anyone with a NAT Type 2 or 1. Either yours is set to 3 (Strict) or it was a fluke and shouldn't happen again? We didn't really test it much.

Run the Internet Connection Test on the Vita and see what it says. You'd have to do it when you're connected to the router you'd be using when we play, though.

[FirstBlood]

Speaking of NAT bullshit I realized that my shit still wasn't open even when DMZ'd but setting the 360's wired settings to automatic instead of manual (still with the same IP) seemed to fix it. Fucking stupid.