Connection error. Failed to join game lobby.

[Hasidic Kaiju]

Tried restarting. Switching difficulty. Different planets. Both factions.

[Pledge_God]

I’ve been having the same issue recently. I read almost everything I could find across the internet to try and fix it. I deleted the config. file, verified file integrity twice, uninstalled and reinstalled the game, turned off steam overlay, checked my firewall, toggled party availability back and forth between private and public, played missions, dropped an sos beacon, and still got nothing but repeated errors. I gave up and am just SOL until something is fixed

[MrRhang]

I also have the same issue. Several days ago it was fine. Now this just happens and I can't play with anyone.

[Smokie McBongWater]

Yup same here for almost a week now. I also have done absolutely everything I could find on the Internet to try to fix it but alas I am still unable to play.

[ArchelioN]

My friend has the same problem with lobby. Helldivers = solo game

[Anoril]

I could enable other people to join me by completing easy mission by itself. Couldn't connect to others for almost a month at this point but at least that was a way to play as a host. But after last patch it seems like it doesnt work anymore.

[Sigmarsson]

Same problem here

[Bregastor]

Same, up until few min ago i thought it was a problem of just random matchmaking, but then friends logged up and they neither can join me nor can i join them.

Already verified game, swapped social settings but with no results.

[Scuzz MB]

Having one or everyone in the party restarting the game seems to resolve the issue. Not a particularly elegant or user-friendly solution, but at least works around it until they can figure out what's causing this.

[Sanhedrin]

same

[straygeo]

What is the deal here? Are servers this overloaded? I have tried every piece of advice i could find to solve this issue. It'll take me 5 or 6 tires just to get INTO one mission, only to be hung up in the helldive loading screen until Im' forced to reload.

[Greyten1]

Same, I can connect to other players when I slept a night or wait a certain amount of hours. Everything works normal, but if I close the game via Exit Button, Alt+f4, the game crashes or iit stucks iin the loading screen pod to earth animation and II close it and want to relog the game I can't connect to players in the friends list nor publiic lobbys, no one can join my game. I can start a mission by myself but what's the poinnt, even moderate difficulty is to hard and no mechanism is compensatiing you can only play alone. I tried to restart the game, join friends via steam or ingame social function, verify game files,restart the PC, restart the router, restart ONT fiber box,all during being in the game or the game closed, deleted cache files from NVIDEA Folder Main, PC Specs: (4070 Super, 13700KF, 32 GB Ram), Closed MSI AFterburner and every other program and task which could interfer, set rules for Helldivers and allow all in the Windows Firewall (No other ntivirus running), freed and closed Ports on the Router for Steam (were already active), reinstalled the game twice, switched crossplay on/off, Friends only and publiic, changed graphic settings, drank Milk, overthought my life, flown to mars and back and still, the game seems to just log me in for t he first session within a ferw hours time window and when for example 3 Hours expired myfirst login session is reset and I can connect to other people agaiin until I close the game or it crashes again. Never had such a Problem in a game. It's pretty obvious it's not on the Users part. Pls fix this Dev's.

[Bregastor]

Originally posted by Scuzz MB:

Having one or everyone in the party restarting the game seems to resolve the issue. Not a particularly elegant or user-friendly solution, but at least works around it until they can figure out what's causing this.

I don't think we are actually talking about the same issue here. Cause for the issue we are experiencing this solve literally nothing.

[Kaenakatora]

same problem here, I cannot invite friends that are already in game or join their squads.
I tried to join other players' games or quick matches, but immediately got connection error.
I already tried uninstall and reinstall along with removing user_settings file, but none of them fixed it :(

[Azadanes]

Same. Was able to play just fine last week and was looking forward to wasting my life on this game today but I cant join anyone and nobody can join me. Killing the vibe big time for me

[DoctorWhere]

I've had this problem for two weeks now. It feels like I've been shadow banned or something. Every time I log in, the game tries to match make with me and I either am "unable to join" or I'll be hopping into a friend's ship and get a "host left the game" message when we're on a discord call and I know for a fact that's not what happened. I get 4-5 randoms join my game, only to time out and be booted at various stages in the mission, and then the servers just decide I'm a lost cause or something and I can't get anyone.

I've tried reverifying, turning both the game and the computer on and off again. Uninstalled and reinstalled, on different drives too. I'm connecting to other multiplayer experiences just fine, I know it's not my internet connection. It sucks though, I convinced like four friends to buy this game because I hyped it up to them and wanted to have a squad, and now I can't play with anyone.

I've heard that connecting your PSN account might be part of thge issue, but I even paid for playstation plus and that still didn't fix it. I'm at my wit's end I stg