Friend Joining Lobby Issue

[trail kernel]

Hello everyone, I have been playing with a group for a while now, but recently theres been an issue with two of my friends, where they can independently be in a lobby with me or anyone else, but as soon as the two attempt to be in the same lobby, one friend consistently has an issue where the steam process completely dies and GTFO freezes requiring the game be forced closed and reopened. Can anyone help?

[stark rampart]

VPN?

[trail kernel]

No, noone is on a VPN. One of them an I are on the same wifi, but that hasn't caused an issue before

[stark rampart]

Are your computers on spec?

@full sonnet Can the usual pc throttling things cause this?

[trail kernel]

Yeah, one of them has a better PC than me and the other has a nvidia rtx 4080 laptop and an intel i9 14900hx

[stark rampart]

It could also be connection issues, can you tell the one friend that has the issue to find the logs?
#bug-reporting has guidelines on where they're located

[trail kernel]

We've checked logs, we could post them here. It is also intermittent as it just worked lol

[stark rampart]

What level are you doing?

[trail kernel]

Happens on any level. They have a theory about caches so we are going to try deleting those so they get remade and see if that fixes it

[stark rampart]

#known-issues message
Oh yeah, if you haven't already, check these out

[full sonnet]

no

[full sonnet]

might wanna try using usb tethering to rule that out because some p2p games really dont like that

[trail kernel]

We can try but I doubt it. When we investigated the logs, there was something about one friend not having a backpack, could that cause it for some reason?

[stark rampart]

Desync of some sort