Destiny 2 CENTIPEDE

Bungie names this code but does not publish the wording it prints on screen, so we quote only the code itself: CENTIPEDE. Any site showing you an exact message for it has written one.

What it actually means

Bungie's baseline description: “CENTIPEDE is a general networking error code. This can be caused by a loss of connection to our servers.”

The more useful part is the admission that follows: “Bungie has seen users hitting these errors in geographic clusters in different places at different times. For example, we recently detected 25% packet loss from the UK… These Internet conditions usually pass quickly.”

That is a company saying out loud that some instances of this code are nothing to do with the player and nothing to do with Bungie either — they are the internet in between.

How to tell which one you have

If people in your country are reporting it at the same time and it clears within the hour, that is a transit or ISP cluster and waiting is correct. If it is only you and it persists across reboots, it is your network or your NAT.

Fixes, in the order worth trying

1. Use a wired connection — First, as with every networking code in this set.
2. Get your NAT to Open or Type 1 — The persistent single-player cases almost always end here.
3. Accept that some cases are not yours to fix — Bungie says so directly: on a university or corporate network, or where an ISP restricts traffic, you may have a NAT problem outside your control.

Operator documentation: help.bungie.net. Bungie documents its error codes in a public directory of over 300 articles. Those articles describe causes and fixes and never quote the in-game dialog, so neither do we. WEASEL is documented as having split off from CENTIPEDE, so the two are often searched together.

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