#Can't open replays or join game links on steam
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I use a macbook and the issue has persisted for a few months now
not sure who to ping for this
Please post the replay you're trying to open here
Are you in Beta on Steam? That might be part of the problem @snow grotto
If you are in beta, consider posting in #1025051356400201829
nope
not in beta
not sure if this matters, but just checked if i was in beta and i don't even have the option to opt in to beta
nvm u need a code to join beta lol
but anyways i'm not on beta
lemme see if opting in would actually help....
did not help, here's a screen recording of what happens
it just flashes like this after i click a replay link
and i have to force quit steam before i can start clicking anything again
#1324063648494260276 Not sure if this will be of help, but it seems to be the same problem.
We didn't do anything.
It was the link that was bad, not their client
Try a different replay
All replays don’t work
I’ve tried like 10+ different replays
I also can’t join games from links
@floral crag it looks like u also helped MDTenebris fix this, what did u guys do?
We didn't do anything
For him, specifically, the link he was trying to open was bad
But when he tried to open a different link, it worked out just fine
Is this on Steam?
Have you tried validating files?
what's that?
like checking if the links r good?
i can open the replays on my mobile account
but i can't open them on steam
I mean, validating files on Steam
Right-click Polytopia > Properties > Local Files > Validate integrity of local files
i will try that when i get home
i tried it, did not work
@ancient isle has the same issue as me
I'll take this to DM's
@remote prairie
right here
yooooo
could it be that the replay games try directing you to the non beta of polytopia and crash because theres nothing in those folders?
It could be your firewall is seeing discord/steam trying to launch a program and is shutting it down
Actually probably best bet is clearing your steam cache
@snow grotto if your online
Alr lemme try that
wanna stream in tempest
sure
Cloud and I got it working but we have no idea how
the first thing we did was run the direct url shortcut
steam://run/874390//opengame?id=d65e19a1-56cb-48f1-e6a3-08dd3b28b809
that worked
clouds running a mac os with google chrome as a default browser
next we tried running safari with the https://share.polytopia.io/g/d65e19a1-56cb-48f1-e6a3-08dd3b28b809
brought cloud to the website with the hyper link that runs steam://run/874390//opengame?id=d65e19a1-56cb-48f1-e6a3-08dd3b28b809
that also worked
but the kicker is
chrome started working and we don't know why
my main guess is mac defender now recognized the url steam://run/874390//opengame?id=d65e19a1-56cb-48f1-e6a3-08dd3b28b809 and was no longer blocking it but I have no way to test that
Doesn’t it inform you that the link might be malicious
idk not on clouds computer
my computer ran the steam://run fine but I only ran it through direct shortcuts on my windows computer
my main question now is why would it crash steam?
anyways cloud restarted his computer and it works fine now on chrome
poor guy hasn't been able to record replay videos in months 😭
we ran this through shortcuts:// app on mac os
you click on url, then input steam://run/874390//opengame?id=d65e19a1-56cb-48f1-e6a3-08dd3b28b809
then click the play button
best guess was a firewall issue but that'd halve to be a question Midwan figures out lol
@errant mica foward this to your master please
or not, your a free man
