Problem with multiplayer

[Wexiik]

Hi
Today I downloaded The hunter from Epic Games and tried to play multiplayer with a friend. After turning on the game, I was asked to log in, which was quite a problem, but somehow we managed it. When I wanted to add it, it took an awful long time for the request to come and then we didn't see each other online even though we both restarted the game. So we couldn't play multiplayer

I would like to ask what the problem may be
Thank you

[Morgan Bateson]

Yeah we've tried while logged into Apex even though Apex doesn't work

[ChaosManiek]

Do you have both steam and Epic platform started? And as for devs answer is as usual "This issue should be resolved, and we are sorry for the inconvenience." and as asking about problems with playing in multi between epic and steam they misunderstood the question and answered about crossover between PC/Console lol. I won't comment the part that they closed ticket immadiatly.

[BallsOfAloha]

引用自 OLLY：

Apex doesn't work and wont show up something whatever you do.

I've tested it again with my friend. He's on Epic. I'm on Steam. I've opened a game with Steam only open, he looked the long list of public games with that map and didn't found my game. Then I closed the game, started Epic too so I'd both launchers open, started the game opened a map and now my friend could find my game in the list.
The only difference between my friend seeing and not seeing my game in the list of multiplayer matches was me having only one or both launchers open. It would be strange if this runs only for us.

Apex was not working correctly so we tried this and it worked for us too, thank you.

[Morgan Bateson]

引用自 ChaosManiek：

Do you have both steam and Epic platform started?

Yes. What we (both) do:
- start Steam
- start Epic

I'm on steam, so next I start TheHunter on steam.

He's on Epic, so next he starts TheHunter on Epic.

As steam user, I create a public multiplayer game, choose a map we both have and create game.

When in game, he goes to multiplayer and searches for the game.

Can't find it.

He started a game as well, I couldn't find that either.

We are showing each other online on the Apex website and as friends. In-game 0 friends are shown online or offline. Finding him again as friend from the ingame interface fails (no such friend)

[ChaosManiek]

In my case apex also doesn't work, I was adding my friends like crazy but they have "downtime" for who-knows-how-long.

In my case:
I launched epic and steam, then I turned on Cotw, started game first on standard game map like Hirchfielden, then after starting it, he found my game with filtering without problem, most of the own serwers are named "Server by [name]". I also started later on dlc map like savanna and he also found game no problem.

[gottie_pl]

For me it looks like this. I have a steam game. My daughters are having on epick game. We cannot add ourselves to be friends.

But today we were able to play together for the first time. Epic and steam are on. and both accounts are connected/linked, I don't know if it was required.

What took us the most time was to find the set up server. After selecting the area. We were looking for our server on all ranges. And finally it worked. In total, we made two attempts with joining and both were successful.

There is no easy connection. Adding friends does not work. No filter / server search. But once it is connected, playing is pure pleasure and a lot of fun.

I translate everything from a translator. sorry for the mistakes.

[VanderSalad]

What I have found so far, owning the game on Steam with friends who just redeemed it on Epic:
-Adding friends in game does not work, although it clearly says "request sent" when their name is typed in correctly as opposed to "player not found" when typed incorrectly
-You may be able to log into to your Apex account on your web browser and see the friend request there, but adding them on the browser still has no effect in game.
-You can play with friends between Steam and Epic by making a public game and searching for it by "refreshing" the game list until you find them. This works regardless of whether a Steam or Epic user is hosting.
-What currently does NOT work in some cases is playing DLC reserves with crossplay friends, *SPECIFICALLY* if a STEAM user owns a DLC, hosts the match, and has an EPIC friend WITHOUT that DLC join. The user will join, but be prompted with a message stating they will be kicked because "one user must own this DLC" or something. I have tried to get this to work with my friend over the past few days to no avail
-If an EPIC user hosts a public match in a DLC reservation, a STEAM user who does not own it can join and play with them with no issues.
-The most the dev team has said about these issues is just a general acknowledgement of them in a few-day old Twitter post, stating that they're aware and looking for solutions. They also not a patch incoming on December 7th that addresses certain issues but I can't figure out if they're saying the Apex issues will be fixed then or if that patch is specifically for other issues outside of the Apex ♥♥♥♥.

[ChaosManiek]

huh, so epic blocked full play on servers where other player with dlc map host the game while client doesn't?

[VanderSalad]

引用自 ChaosManiek：

huh, so epic blocked full play on servers where other player with dlc map host the game while client doesn't?

My guess is that it's some sort of issue with Apex since there's been so many other issues in that vain recently, but I'm no expert on this stuff. The game is supposed to allow you to be able to play on DLC servers you don't own by default so I would be shocked (but not that shocked I guess) if Epic exclusively made that impossible, especially without communicating it. Who knows. More clarity will come when the Apex connectivity issues hopefully get fixed.

[OLLY]

引用自 Morgan Bateson：

We like to start a private game. You can't see the private games in that list AFAIK, so we really need Apex to work to see your friend in-game.

Good to know a public game might work, could give that a try.

Yeah sadly no chance for that until Apex starts to actually work :(

[OLLY]

引用自 VanderSalad：

引用自 ChaosManiek：

huh, so epic blocked full play on servers where other player with dlc map host the game while client doesn't?

My guess is that it's some sort of issue with Apex since there's been so many other issues in that vain recently, but I'm no expert on this stuff. The game is supposed to allow you to be able to play on DLC servers you don't own by default so I would be shocked (but not that shocked I guess) if Epic exclusively made that impossible, especially without communicating it. Who knows. More clarity will come when the Apex connectivity issues hopefully get fixed.

No that's not a problem. I own a lot of DLC on Steam and my friend has just basic Hunter on Epic and we have no problems playing DLC maps.
Some others already reported that they can do it the same way me and my friend did so maybe if it's not working for someone that's up to some specific issues (e. g. for someone it could be needed to open ports to host games) hard to say what's the reason.

At this point we have to wait for them to fix their problems with Apex so we have a solution for anyone.

[ChaosManiek]

Its gonna take them a while, instead of working immadiatly on that Apex, they are working on new map.. so..

[VanderSalad]

引用自 OLLY：

引用自 VanderSalad：

My guess is that it's some sort of issue with Apex since there's been so many other issues in that vain recently, but I'm no expert on this stuff. The game is supposed to allow you to be able to play on DLC servers you don't own by default so I would be shocked (but not that shocked I guess) if Epic exclusively made that impossible, especially without communicating it. Who knows. More clarity will come when the Apex connectivity issues hopefully get fixed.

No that's not a problem. I own a lot of DLC on Steam and my friend has just basic Hunter on Epic and we have no problems playing DLC maps.
Some others already reported that they can do it the same way me and my friend did so maybe if it's not working for someone that's up to some specific issues (e. g. for someone it could be needed to open ports to host games) hard to say what's the reason.

At this point we have to wait for them to fix their problems with Apex so we have a solution for anyone.

Glad I saw this, me and my buddy specifically tested our own situation and my Steam host would not work and his Epic host worked fine... Very weird. If it matters I bought the Yukon DLC and he bought the Savannah. Really hoping this gets fixed because I am dying to go Grizzly and Wolf hunting with my buddy.

[Patukka_69]

This MP hosting is so weird, last night we tested with 3 players, 2 from Steam and 1 from EPIC.
Friend with Steam did not found my host ( I play with Steam), but friend with EPIC found. I did not found neither friend's hosts and also they did not found each others hosts.

So my host was only one visible and only to EPIC friend and their's were not on anyone of us. Luckily my Steam friend was able to connect through steam friend list.

[Morgan Bateson]

Apex didn't work and since we could not make epic vs steam work (even with the launcher open trick mentioned here) we decided to just give up on that and spend the 12 Euros it was on sale for (the one with a few dlc) and now it works splendidly, without the need for apex.