Cannot join any multiplayer game after the steam outage on 11/19/2025 at 11 PM EST | Nuclear Option | Page 1

quartz sleet Nov 21, 2025, 12:31 AM

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I was able to join matches before the outage but after I just can't join anyone.
In the player log I decided to host my own game, nobody joined. I tried joining a multiplayer game and I couldn't join anyone.

📎 Player.log

ebon plank Nov 21, 2025, 12:42 AM

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quartz sleet I was able to join matches before the outage but after I just can't join anyone....

have you restarted steam since then?

quartz sleet Nov 21, 2025, 12:42 AM

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I shutdown my laptop every night so it should have restarted

ebon plank Nov 21, 2025, 12:43 AM

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try it just in case

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if that doesnt work, log out and back in again

quartz sleet Nov 21, 2025, 12:44 AM

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I have a FPS booster dll in the files that I installed months ago and multiplayer still worked fine and people could join me but now nobody can't since yesterday

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I'll try loading it up again after restarting

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ok it works now wtf??

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restarting steam fixed it apparently. thanks

wet shard Nov 21, 2025, 1:44 AM

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You can blame windows for that. Shutdown behaves more like hibernation than actually shutting down. Restart on the other hand actually does a clean restart of the system

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More info here for anyone who's interested: https://www.computroon.co.uk/2020/10/16/restart-vs-shutdown-windows-10/

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#Cannot join any multiplayer game after the steam outage on 11/19/2025 at 11 PM EST