Disconnect and unable to re-join (BETA)

[triad4evr]

I was playing with a friend that I had invited. He lost his connection and disappeared from my server. I exited the level and saved the game (to save my character's progress). I have been unable to allow him to join when I continue the saved game- when I invite him, it says "connecting to server" and then nothing happens, it just sits there a bit, and then says "Unable to create lobby"- how else can I bring him back into our game? We were 13-14 levels deep so I'd like to continue the game if I could. Dropping in and out really needs to be something that can happen. Please advise!

[WALL OF JUSTICE]

Host the lobby through "continue my saved game" and let your friend join by also letting them select "continue my saved game". Not sure what happens on sending an invite for a continued savegame, your friend should be able to connect by themselves.

Sometimes steam lobbies take a few tries to get right as well, give it a couple of shots re-hosting.

[triad4evr]

He did not have the option for "continue my saved game".

[mistersneak]

If your friend died before he got disconnected, then his savegame would be gone. This is an oversight in how our permadeath system works in multiplayer and it only rears its head in this circumstance, when you die and then disconnect. It's something we hope to correct.

[triad4evr]

He did not die, we were both just standing in a room adjusting inventory. He lost his connection for a moment and dropped and couldn't reconnect. I appreciate the reply, though, and I hope joining multi-player becomes easier in the future- it seem very hit-or-miss right now. Drop in/ out functionality would go a very long to correcting this!

[Warlow]

This happened to us repeatedly today, over a 4-5 hour game we disconnected 5-6 times. Neither of us alt tabbed or did anything noticeable to cause the desync/disconnect so I'm not sure what is happening. Has anyone found a solve?