Stuck on "Connecting to Server"

[Gojo le goat]

I am stuck on the connecting to server menu when first loading up the game. Yes I've tried restarting, yes i have verified game cache, nothing is working. Any1 else had this problem?

[Gj]

Yes, when i got banned :s

[Gojo le goat]

i'm not banned

[vpr]

тоже самое

[Gj]

Originally posted by Gojo le goat:

i'm not banned

can you still not come in?

[Avon42nd]

Since 28th September 2023 when the previous season kicked in (or thereabouts) this is my timeline now trying to get to play QC: (Time in mins/seconds)
00.01 Click QC 'Play' in Steam Library
02.18 Q symbol appears (loading)
03.34 Choose region / connection to server message
03.56 Daily rewards screen - ii then accept selection etc.
04.12 Select Practise TDM & search
04.37 Found / launch server
04.54 Vote Insomnia
05.06 Insomnia loading screen
07.04 kicked out
07.11 Connection to server message
07.22 Confirm 'Do you wish to reconnect to last match' (=Yes)
07.55 Insomnia loading screen
08.36 connected to match but already 3 mins 7 seconds been played

Subsequent matches after the first tend to kick me out as well.

I'm a UK user. I set my connection so it looks for about 5 of the closest servers to & including London. I play mainly evenings. Does anyone else have such a struggle to connect or is there anything else I can do to perhaps speed things up?
Thanks

[ciklotron]

Those 2 minutes of loading times everywhere are way too high. If you're playing from a spinning HDD, QC may be terminally fragmented - Steam makes copies of the files when updating them, and there's a very big file (~25 GB) that is used and patched all the time and this way it gets gradually slower and slower to access.
If you're playing from SSD, settings may be too high, set textures to low for a test.

[redtred]

My case.

I apologize for not being good at English.

Play practice TDM or custom Instagib.
Error messages appear sequentially After one or two match game.

First error message pops up - "Connection timeout" (click CLOSE button -> message is disappear)
Second error message pops up - "Connection to dedicated setver lost. Please try again." (click CLOSE button -> message is disappear)
Thirth error message pops up - "Services are not available. Please try again later. For possible solutions, visit help.bethesda.net and search for error code: 161"
(click CLOSE button - but message is not disappear)
(click CLOSE button - but message is not disappear)
(click CLOSE button - message is disappear)
-But, I can not find "error code: 161"

After than
1. Quit game
2. Run game immediately
3. Try play practice TDM or custom Instagib
4. ERROR message pops up - "Connection timeout"
5. Quit game
6. Wait 3~5 minutes
7. Only then I can play game.

[Gojo le goat]

Originally posted by waD:

Originally posted by Gojo le goat:

i'm not banned

can you still not come in?

no i can't since 2 weeks now

[Shakes]

Originally posted by Gojo le goat:

no i can't since 2 weeks now

What's your in-game name?

[Gojo le goat]

Originally posted by Shivers:

Originally posted by Gojo le goat:

no i can't since 2 weeks now

What's your in-game name?

same as my steam account i think

[Avon42nd]

Originally posted by ciklotron:

Those 2 minutes of loading times everywhere are way too high. If you're playing from a spinning HDD, QC may be terminally fragmented - Steam makes copies of the files when updating them, and there's a very big file (~25 GB) that is used and patched all the time and this way it gets gradually slower and slower to access.
If you're playing from SSD, settings may be too high, set textures to low for a test.

Thanks! Lowering the settings has sped up the loading times a bit. Guess I'll just have to live with the server issues.

[Shakes]

Originally posted by Gojo le goat:

same as my steam account i think

If you search up your QC name on https://quake-stats.bethesda.net/ and it doesn't come up in the drop-down list, your account has either been banned or deactivated. Only Bethesda would be able to help you in that case.

[Gojo le goat]

Originally posted by Shivers:

Originally posted by Gojo le goat:

same as my steam account i think

If you search up your QC name on https://quake-stats.bethesda.net/ and it doesn't come up in the drop-down list, your account has either been banned or deactivated. Only Bethesda would be able to help you in that case.

even with a another account, it doesnt work

[Captain Elk]

I have the same problem over last 2 days. Still haven't solved.

[Captain Elk]

Solved, it's temporal ban for certain reasons.