#Friend can't join lobby

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gusty topaz
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Hello,
after some years we tried to play together again and it works for all but one. He can't join us, stuck in "Waiting for Master" and seeing the wrong Rundown Number "R3A1" or "R2C2". Or if he creates the lobby and we join him, we don't see him and he just sees that the bots leave (we also tried without bots, if thats important). If he leaves, it works but he cant rejoin. We tried router restarts, open ports, clearing IP Stuff via cmd, we even tried it with a hotspot and it doesnt work. We tried Steam Download Cache clear, changing the download server, clearing whole folders and reinstalling the game. He does not use a VPN. He now uses Windows 11, so we assume its a W11 Problem. Anything else we could try?

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kindred shard
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alex wasnt in Lobby he was in NoLobby

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a lot of this^

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ERROR : STEAM > k_EP2PSessionErrorTimeout 4 The connection timed out because the target user didn't respond, perhaps they aren't calling AcceptP2PSessionWithUser. Corporate firewalls can also block this(NAT traversal is not firewall traversal), make sure that UDP ports 3478, 4379, and 4380 are open in an outbound direction.

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not sure what this means

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seems to just be timing out from P2P

sweet nexus
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Yeah it's basic p2p timeout, either game had issues with port forwarding

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or there's issues with ISP

gusty topaz
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isp didnt change since the last time we played.

The Ports are all created, firewall doesnt block the game and we tried it already by shutting it off.

sweet nexus
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ISP is your Internet Service Provider

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Doesn't matter if it didn't change

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Cause you don't know what chages to their datacenters THEY DID

gusty topaz
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yeah, but cant really check if thats the problem, no? And the hotspot didnt work either, which uses something different

sweet nexus
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you can mitigate most of issues on your side before calling your ISP and blaming them for poor service they providing

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First of all, search on how to port forward for your OS, it should availiable just with basic tools that OS provides (either GUI or cmd-tool).
Second of all to mitigate issues related to your networking configuration try setting up the DNS Server (quad8 or quad9)
Third of all clear your DNS lookup caches on both router and pc (router should be more than enough to restart it, on pc you can do that by going to cmd and typing command ipconfig /flushdns (win only). Also order matters, first router, then pc)

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If all of you guys are sitting on white ips you can try tracert each other to figure out the problem even more closely

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The issue is just too broad and it either might be

  • ISP
  • Proprietary service for your networking card
  • Networking card configuration
  • Invalid DNS Caches
  • Basic OS networking configuration
  • and so on and so on...
sweet nexus
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or if in case your ISP also does the mobile networks

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It's the same ISP lmao

gusty topaz
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yeah

I guess we try looking into the stuff above and hope something works.

sweet nexus
gusty topaz
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was already tried, creating ports, restarting router and steam etc

sweet nexus
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Try looking into if any of you have some kind of proprietary software that running alongside your networking card

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It was an issue for one of the people previously

manic hedge
gusty topaz