Can't find any online games anymore

[I Shidded My Pant]

As title says, I can't seem to find any games online anymore, until two days ago i would find tonnes of games and been able to join and play just fine but now whenever i open the server browser it just loads forever and remains empty, quick match also just loads forever and i never find a game.

things i have tried to fix it;
changing download region in steam, no change
changing search distance to world and filters to all, no change
restarting steam/computer, no change
verifying game integrity and reinstalling game, both didn't work
updating drivers, no change

Also just to say ahead of time, there are most definitely people playing in my region, with the game being the most active i've ever seen in it's lifespan here recently and it being the weekend where i am, when the game is also at it's most active, I simply cannot believe that there is nobody playing. also worth noting i always host public games when i play solo because i can't find a game and 90% of the time people quickly join because it seems that there are players but nobody wants to host a lobby however now after this has started happening i have nobody join my games, could be worth noting, could be not i dunno but i thought i should mention.

any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thank you in advance :)

[Dwarfurious]

Did you happen to play on a beta server during experimental and not change it back ? Try to Disband team next time this happens

[I Shidded My Pant]

Originally posted by Dwarfurious:

Did you happen to play on a beta server during experimental and not change it back ? Try to Disband team next time this happens

Firstly, thank you for the reply, and no i didn't play on a beta server, i have disbanded team and nothing happened, i'm not at home at the moment but when i am i'll boot up the game and see if i still have the issue

[Kexxet]

I know this is an old thread but I suffered from this exact problem and found the cause of it in my setup so it may be worth sharing. There are still many posts in different forums describing this issue.

I have a dual boot system with Linux and Windows. Windows likes to write the time to the RTC clock in local time while Linux likes to write it in UTC time. This means that the system time is often wrong when the other OS boots. Most of the time Windows 10 automatically synchronizes the time on boot to NTP servers but I have seen that it does not happen all the time or it may be significantly delayed.

When the windows time is earlier than the actual current time I get the problem described by OP. You can see that if canceling the joining procedure in the game and select "server list" many games with a negative time duration can be found.

Synchronizing the time in windows "time settings" will solve this issue and find games to join. I'm sure there are many conditions that may cause this problem but this certainly is one of them.

Rock and stone!