Can't Join Anyone/No one can join me

[DonJuan]

Same connection issues remain, even after Update V4.0. Please fix this.

[Knil]

On the main menu of the game are you getting the patch message? It will be below "Exit Game"

If not something on your computer is blocking the game from connecting to the internet.

[Jenoxis]

I'm having the same issue. I just bought a 4 pack for myself and friends and none of us can seem to get each other. As of right now, I'm using a public server (hotel) and that might be an issue. I'm also currently on a mac and my firewall might be an issue. (though i did turn it off and no change resulted) My friend was able to see servers while I could not. We tried to run through Hamachi but that didn't work either.

If you have a thread the explicitly details how to go through hamachi, that would be helpful. Otherwise, if you see in issue with my previous paragraph that sounds problematic, I would greatly like insight.

[DonJuan]

http://imgur.com/P1caS4Z Menu looks like this. http://imgur.com/n99Lo5I When I double click on a server that's got space. http://imgur.com/CkJF4gn After it fails to connect to server. I hope this helps.

[Ancient Starstuff]

Make sure when you host you have the right ports open... My friends connect with me with zero problems. Also, they can just connect via friends.

[DonJuan]

WTF????? I'm not ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ around with ports and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ to play a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game!!!! Gmod and Minecraft works fine without ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ like that!!!!!

[Neverarine]

pretty much every other game in existance works without it... but tts people would rather issue a game that makes a lot of people unable to play

[WonkaVicious]

why do we need NAT punchthrough anyway?? before it was introduced i had no problems at all.. now suddenly i have ppl who cant join my games and i cant connect so some games.. its not as bad for me as for other players.. but still.. my friends from denmark cant join me

[SEJBR - SABRE - 化物]

Originally posted by Neverarine:

pretty much every other game in existance works without it... but tts people would rather issue a game that makes a lot of people unable to play

Many games require port forwarding. Depends on your router settings. My router by default blocks almost every server hosting utility until I forward my ports to my PC's local IPAddress. Such is the case with all srcds games with 27XXX ports, recently with StarBound and quite frankly many games.

As for the NAT Punchthrough, go ahead and read what it's supposed to do.

But since the game is released on steam, I'm wondering why They didn't use SteamLobby for network functionality since it would reduce many of the current problems. I'm not sure how SteamLobby work codewise thou.