Dedicated Server - Sometimes Friends Can't Connect?

[Grymlot]

I have been hosting a dedicated server for a month now. A couple friends and I have been connecting and play successfully for quite a while now, but just in the last few days, my friends are having trouble connecting. When they tell me about the issue, I go check the server and the console just shows that someone tried to connect and timed out and disconnected. That's it. No errors in the windows event viewer either. Meanwhile, I can connect just fine. So I thought it might be my model and router, so I rebooted those and the server PC. My friend finally connected and then the next day, the same thing happened to my other friend. So I restarted just the dedicated server instance itself and noticed that when I was stopping the server, it fired off maybe 15-20 lines about async sockets being closed, yet no one was connected at the time. This makes me wonder if it's not properly closing connections or something like that. Could just be nothing though too.

Has anyone else had issues like this? It seems obvious is not a configuration issue, because it's intermittent and nothing has changed.

[Rox]

It's probably not a problem with your server, but with Steam, it's an ongoing general issue at this time which is only going to worsen as ongoing battles between governments and ideologies becomes more intense. The workarounds are to use shortcuts or direct links to the server by its actual IP address thus bypassing the Steam layer, or changing your region in Steam>Settings>Download.

[Dan2D3D]

Hi, Rox is right, it's the same problem for A Lot these days and looks like regional servers down because some are able to join servers when they change the Steam download region.

Even one told me he had to leave it going on joining world that took 25-35 minutes to join.

[=Duke=]

I just had this EXACT issue. Me and a friend played a private server no issues, then the next day he is unable to load his character in. Stuck in spectator mode and cannot respawn at all. We changed nothing in the game file at all.

[Dan2D3D]

Originally posted by =Duke=:

I just had this EXACT issue. Me and a friend played a private server no issues, then the next day he is unable to load his character in. Stuck in spectator mode and cannot respawn at all. We changed nothing in the game file at all.

Some players having similar problem shared their soltuons so I have added to the Pin.

Scroll down to title MP - Not able to connect to servers : in that Pin :

Forum/Community workaround(s) 📌
https://steamcommunity.com/app/244850/discussions/6/3464975177698306889/



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Scroll down to last comment so post #12, it's a new thing going on these days so I have added in, some not able to play MP and even some not able to use the Workshop but all good once they change Steam Download Region (how to in post #12)

[=Duke=]

Tried all of that. Nothing worked. We can join random games just not each other now.

[Dan2D3D]

Originally posted by =Duke=:

Tried all of that. Nothing worked. We can join random games just not each other now.

Have you tested in brand new created world to have the first clue as to know if it is "bugged" in only one specific save ?

I recommend to use the Sandbox named "Red Ship v2", brand new created without any Mods for a quick test to find more clues on what is going on.

[Dan2D3D]

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I also recommend to set the game graphic on Default Medium no more than 70 FOV on both PCs.

Me and my son don't have streaming problem with both PCs game graphic Default Medium.

[=Duke=]

Originally posted by Dan2D3D:

Originally posted by =Duke=:

Tried all of that. Nothing worked. We can join random games just not each other now.

Have you tested in brand new created world to have the first clue as to know if it is "bugged" in only one specific save ?

I recommend to use the Sandbox named "Red Ship v2", brand new created without any Mods for a quick test to find more clues on what is going on.

Did this and the option to invite him from the F3 players list doesnt work at all anymore lol... The invite button just flashes and does nothing, whereas before it would open the friends list and at least send him an invite. No mods either.

[=Duke=]

Vanilla game runs fine after a 4th attempt? Haven't changed anything so I'm quite confused at this point lol.

[Dan2D3D]

My son and me never use the "invite thing", he always join me from my Steam profile or right click my name in private chat (Steam PM) = there is a button to join my world.

[Rox]

The invite button has not worked correctly or consistently for years, if indeed it ever worked at all, and is best avoided.

[=Duke=]

Narrowed the problem down to being a mod as vanilla Red Ship v2 was able to load after multiple attempts. Just seems strange that our modded game worked for days, there were no changes and now there are connection issues

[Dan2D3D]

Some Steam servers may be down, that happens a lot and more these days because some Regonal servers went down, too.

Have you tested one Mod at a time in the Red ship v2, the Mod may be OK when alone in brand new world, test to pinpoint the Mod ?

+ One Mod may be conflicting with the other Mods you use, some have to change the Mod order to fix and that is a hint about using conflicting Mods.