Once I've opened Obsidian.exe, the patcher comes up, everything looks like its running okay, untill where the ping thingy is suppose to be there is a message saying "You do not appear to be online, please try again."

So I ignore it and click check for patches, try to logon, and get a message saying "There is some problem communicating with Origin. Please restart Obsidian: T3A and try again."

I've reinstalled everything on my compter (formated it) finally got that registry file shit fixed and its now saying this, never seen it b4 have no clue what to do. I've tried having my firewall accept both obs and the patcher, didnt do anything.

Any suggestions would be great.

certainly sounds like a firewall issue.

Problem seems to be that Obsidian thinks you're not online - so therefore it must be getting blocked somewhere on your PC.

Have you checked windows firewall as well as other firewall(s)?

Try turning off your virus protection and firewalls(s) and connecting.

as I said I did turn all that off and have it accept it, got it to work anyways, thanks for the help

I remember the days when I would resort to formatting my whole PC because obsidian didn't work, LOL.

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"Blessed are the noobs, for they shall inherit Obsidian" - Thassius

yeh, i did that once, then i ran into even bigger problems.. registry files, patching, blah blah blah

This may sound stupid. But computers generally are.
Try to double click the patcher.
then before it even opens, open a web page. and keep refreshing it or surfing quickly until the patcher is fully loaded. THings like have happened to me.