FAILED TO LOAD FILES, REEXPORT LEVELS OR FORCE UPDATE STEAM HOW TO SOLVE.

[worthy raft]

Missing context here...what exactly happend, what did you do and did it work before?

[alpine zephyr]

I tried to join a friends game who subscribed from a workshop

[alpine zephyr]

I am able to join to all other online games but not my friends

[worthy raft]

Maybe you git different versions of the level.
Try to unsubscribe and resubscribe again.

[floral lichen]

You don't need to subscribe to workshop content to play in lobbies with workshop levels tho

Sometimes it just works if you try joining the lobby again

The "re-export or force steam to update" message is irrelevant unless you are the author of the level

[worthy raft]

It was just mentioned that he can join all OTHER online games...not that lobby is even loading or something for the specific friend

[floral lichen]

Yes I know, but idk what you meant

[worthy raft]

The message is relevant if you subscribed to an older version though...if the level was updated, sometimes people have different versions of the level. And thus are unable to join.
Happened to me quite often due to level creation .

[floral lichen]

Oh, i didn't know that. I thought hff always downloads from steam when you join online lobby. I might be wrong

[worthy raft]

It is, but it is sometimes struggling with updating the level when HFF is still open. The best is to close HFF and resubscribe then.