Multiplayer spawning issues

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I'm encountering an issue where friend who join my games (not server) are unable to spawn into the world.

- Player can join game, owner of game gets the announcement of user joining

-We can all join and play on any public server without any issues

-Joining player can select any of the spawn points and request to join faction

-When selected, none of the spawn points load a camera of the spawn zone

-Only the space suite option allows the respawn button to be pressed, all other spawns are disabled

-When a player hits the spawn button it creates a player model in the world, but player does not gain control if it

-The joining user gets a spinning wheel, usually saying streaming.... even after a long wait nothing happens

-I've tried to join and select spectator; I can fly around but nothing loads and a title on the top states game states paused even though the host is playing the game.

-There are 3 of us we have all hosted different games and get the same result joining each others game, we can't spawn / play in the others game

-We have verified our game files, removed mods from the game, deleted the SpaceEngineers.cfg, ShaderCache2 is empty, turned fire walls on and off. Same result. All are PC players and join via steam.

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QA KeenSWH ●

Hello!

Thank you for contacting us. Since this is a bug report, I'm moving your ticket to our support page, where our QA team will take care of you.

Kind Regards

Keen Software House

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Ondrej Borz ●

Hello Engineer,

Thank you for the detailed post and for already trying many of the standard troubleshooting steps - that's very helpful.

Since this is happening across multiple hosts and even in newly created games without mods, it seems like a persistent multiplayer issue. A few additional things worth checking:

In one of your test games, try building a new Medical Room and set it to “Share with All.” The fact that only the space suit option is working may point to access or ownership issues with the other spawn points.
Just to confirm - are you all using Lobby multiplayer, not a dedicated server? If so, what is the lobby visibility setting (Private / Friends / Public)? Steam joining behavior can vary based on this.
If the host or admin opens the Admin Screen (F10) and checks the Entity List → Characters, are there any entities tied to affected players? If so, try removing them to clear any potential conflicts.
Also, could you let us know what happens when one player tries to invite another through Steam? Do they get in at all, or does the same issue occur regardless of join method?

If the issue continues, please consider sharing log files from both the host and at least one of the joining players. These may help us identify what's going wrong during loading or streaming.

You can access your log files by typing %appdata% into your Windows search bar and you will be redirected to the hidden Roaming folder. After that just follow: \Roaming\SpaceEngineers.

Please make sure that you name the logs for example: "admin/host" and "client" so its visible what is what.

We also have a few more advanced workarounds if needed. Once you've had a chance to try the above, feel free to follow up.

Thank you in advance.

Kind regards,

Keen Software House: QA Department

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Adam ●

-This is not a server, just a local game that has been set to Friends. We join via Steam. We are able to connect to the game, we are not able to spawn inside a friends worlds.

-The space suite option isn't working, it is the only one that we can select the respawn button (only one not disabled). When we try to spawn with a space suite it doesn't work either. We just get the streaming text, game paused, and or a spinning wheel that never stops.

- Created a new med room and "shared with all", other player joined game. They could not select the spawn button for the medical room, even though it is shared with all. The user does get a list of all possible spawn points they should be able to spawn at, but the spawn button is disabled. Only option that is not disabled is the spawn in space suite, which does not work.

- Check the entity list F10, When the user joins my world and selects to spawn in space suite, it creates a player entity for them at one of the medical / survival kits. It shows up in the cycle object list of players. They do not gain control of this entity. I am unable to remove it, I get a message saying I cannot remove a player. When the player disconnects from the game the entity updates with the disconnected icon.

- Issued an invite from steam instead of letting the user join my game from steam. The user WAS able to join the game and gain control. The users entity was still in my world from previous test (in a disconnected state), they were not given the option to select a spawn point but just loaded into the world.

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