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Problem joinging friend's server

STR456 shared this bug ago

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I'm having an issue joining my friends server, it doesn't appear in the friends tab in (join game) I tried reseting all settings in the advanced tab but nothing works.

Every time I want to join I have to use shift-tab to open steam overlay, join through friends by pressing the join game button 2 or 3 times, server then loads to 98% and shows the message of the day and freezers. I then have to alt-tab to steam to close the game and launch it again. Then I have to re-do the previous steps but this time I get loaded into spectator with the game paused, at this point I have to press F5 to rejoin to finally be able to join that server.

Our other friend from a different country doesn't have any proble joining the server but me being in the same country as the host does.

This is starting to get really frustrating and I tried every fix I could find but nothing is working and I have no idea what could be the problem.

(I have no VPNs active such as Radmin, hamachi, etc.)

I'd really appreciate it if someone know what's going on and how to fix it.

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Keen SWH QA Agent 2 ●

Hello Engineer,

Thank you for reaching out to us on the forum.

The issue appears to be related to joining games via the Steam Overlay. We are aware of this and already have an internal ticket open, which you can follow here:

https://support.keenswh.com/spaceengineers/pc/topic/48996

To resolve this, please try the following workarounds that may help:

Open Space Engineers → go to Join Game > Friends → and attempt to join your friend’s lobby from there (rather than through the overlay). This will likely resolve the issue.
If the friend’s game does not appear in the Join Game screen, please make sure all players (including the host) are using the same Steam Download Region.

You can check this under Steam → Settings → Downloads → Download Region.
If players are in different regions, please set everyone to the same region as the host.

Once done, the host’s game should appear in the Join Game > Friends screen for all clients. Please check if you can then successfully join this way.

If the issue still occurs, please send us the latest log files from both the host and client at the time the issue occurs so we can investigate further.

You (all players and host) can access log files by typing %appdata% into the Windows search bar → navigate to Roaming\SpaceEngineers.

Kind regards,

Keen Software House: QA Department

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STR456 ●

I am on the same download region as the host but the server still don't appear under join game > friends

We made sure it's not LAN, and our friend from Azerbaijan can see the server and join with no problem, but me being in the UK can't see the server and I can only join the host that is also in the UK only by using steam overlay.

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