"Attempt to join" is forever stuck, in my coop

[methaller]

Hi, me and my GF were thinking about buying this game on sale, but we choose to try the "free week" before doing it...and I was glad we choose to did that, because after 1 hour of fully working coop we disconnected, and.... since then, we were never able to play again.

I am the "host".
I just open my game world, I click on "invite friend", I invite her, she accepts (she is on the main menu at this time), she accepts using the steam interface (shift+tab).

As I said, it was fine on our first hour, since then, when we try, she has "Attempt to join", forever.

- Both our firewall is OK with conan (listed as exception).
- We are not running the battleye software, as we are not planning to join any server, just play the two of us.

Any tip?

[valagnar]

same here. yesterday it was working great but today we literally tried everything i think problem is not related to players, something is wrong with the servers or something

[灵子]

same here.

[Crest Of Artorias]

We have the same issue, we have been playing for a couple of days without any kind of problem but today we just can't seem to connect.

Our ports are open, the same mods and the same load order. Any idea how to fix this?

[Lordoran]

yeah, same here :(

[BORT [Intelligent Banana]]

Yeah went through a fairly comprehensive list of potential fixes but it seems i was able to join my friends server one time and now it just sits on "attempting to join" what i find strange is when our mod list had a discrepancy it showed a screen where i was notified of this and had options to fix it but this isn't happening anymore thus no feedback from the game in terms of potential solutions :/

[Crest Of Artorias]

I have no inside knowledge behind the connection process, however, I do have software development experience.

I think the issue might be that the game authenticates every user through its own systems. Join attempts might also be routed through their services.

I base this assumption on observations during our attempts to troubleshoot the problem.

The joining client does not seem to realise when the host goes offline, this would at most take several seconds if the connection was actually direct and not routed through some kind of query/service, however this took minutes. Or more likely the connection attempt simply timed out, which means the client didn't even notice that the host was even existing.

The log files also mention no attempts of a client to join, though this might be default behaviour.

My guess is this is not something that is wrong with everyone's config etc, but with the services provided by Funcom.

If this issue resolves itself, it is most likely something on their end.

[Lordoran]

@crest: Agreed. I thought joining a "local" server should not be affected by services on their end but it really sounds like the best explanation.

We also played for a couple of days without issues. I played around with some server settings today and then it stopped working, so I thought it might be about that. But the second player still couldn't connect with standard settings and old game files.

What I can contribute: mods really can't be the issue, because we're not running any :)

[灵子]

Originally posted by Lordoran:

@crest: Agreed. I thought joining a "local" server should not be affected by services on their end but it really sounds like the best explanation.

We also played for a couple of days without issues. I played around with some server settings today and then it stopped working, so I thought it might be about that. But the second player still couldn't connect with standard settings and old game files.

What I can contribute: mods really can't be the issue, because we're not running any :)

I and my husband played the free version today then bought the DLC version. We happily installed the DLC and since then, we were never able to play again.So I think maybe DLC is the problem so we uninstalled it but it didn't work.

[Booty Kong]

Though I was going mad. Tried to play it today for the first time with a couple of friends. None of us could play coop.

[Crest Of Artorias]

No it has nothing to do with content, even if you run straight vanilla (no mods, fresh out of the box installation) you still have that issue.

At this point I am 90% sure its an issue on their end, especially since folks seem to have it at a similar time plus what I stated above.

[Rob($)]

we just played last night and just logged on. Cannot connect for COOP. They broke something or something happened during the evening yesturday. Its on there end.

[Duster71]

Same here unable to connect to coop after patch.

[Daikiri.Exe]

same here just wanted to play since this morning and im waiting them to solve this so i can play

[Zalanore]

Had this issue with my wife for a long time. Using steam's invite instead of the in-game invite worked sometimes.

[sage9496]

I really love this game. When it does work its great. BUT i am about SICK of the game almost constantly having Issues. I have a lot of hours into game play as hubby and I have played since launch (with breaks here and there). One would think after 3 years that FC would figure it out. I am so close to being done with Conan and the almost constant problems.