Dedicated Malformed Packet

[HypnotikLich]

My friend keeps trying to join the game and he keeps getting the boot when trying to join. Server is on Linux, i'm running Steam version, buddy is running Epic.

The error : "Malformed_Packet: Packet failed PacketHandler processing."

Any ideas?

[kimba-rip]

could be as 1 of you is on steam and the other on epic, could be a no go

[cywizz]

Originally posted by kimba-rip:

could be as 1 of you is on steam and the other on epic, could be a no go

The game supports cross play, so that should not be the problem...

@OP, I see there are people on the QA site that mention this, so it could be linux related.

However, I would suggest to confirm if your friend is not running any mods, or even have the mod manager running...it could be a possible reason.
Also let him double check his game version for possible mismatch

[HypnotikLich]

The odd thing about it, if he is fast enough, he can get in past the message. It just takes like 20 attempts. He managed yesterday twice and played for a couple hours.

[Huren Ogeko]

double check you are both on the same version of the game. is possible one of you is an update behind the other orthe server and a small changes is in the network protocol of the game is causing this issue. also check your mods are on sync with the server if any are in use.

[AciDCooL]

Have the same issue, there is something wrong with the internal routing of packets within the game. This was driving me nuts, almost reinstalled my opnsense back to a sophos home. Thank god I tested some udp packets over my network before I decided to go down that road.