Unable to Join Quickgames or Host games

Warhammer: Vermintide 2 Technical Support
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Issue Description:

I’ve come back after a not playing for a few months and I’m having issues with joining quick play games and hosting on PC.

When I try to quick join I get stuck in a loop of “Starting search” “Legend” “Found game…” “connecting to game session.” then a blank space and back to “Found Game…”. This just repeat until it gives up and makes me host. When it switches to trying to host I can see players trying to join in the top right with the spinning suns, but there is no player name or message in the text box. After about 10-20 seconds they stop trying to connect.

After about 5 minutes players are then able to join the game and the lobby fills quickly. After I’ve done this I have no more issues joining quickplay or hosting games until I close and re-open the game, after which I need to try to host again for 5 minutes.

Steps to Reproduce:
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  1. Select Quick Play, select difficulty and click play.
  2. Wait until it stops trying to join games
  3. Become host, I can see players attempting to join in top right, but no player names in chatbox
  4. After enough time, players can join.

Platform:
Steam

Player ID:
76561198042007394 / jreedable

Approx. Time of Issue & Timezone:
[02/13/2023, 16:50PM] [GMT]

Reproduction Rate:
Constant (100%)

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Hi @Jreedable,

What are your upload and download speeds? You can check this here: https://www.speedtest.net/

A couple of things to check/try off the bat -

  • You can enable ‘Small Network Packets’ within Vermintide 2’s ‘Network’ panel. Please be aware this option cannot be used in combination with the Player List Plus mod.

  • Ensure your ‘Download Region’ in the Steam client is set appropriately to a nearby location by:

  1. Open the Steam client
  2. Select ‘Steam’ in the upper left-hand corner
  3. Select ‘Settings’
  4. Select ‘Downloads’ within the sidebar
  5. Set your ‘Download Region’ to an appropriate nearby location and save the changes
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Hey Lev,

I’ve switched on the “Small Network Packets” and my Download region was already set to UK - London which is reasonable but I’ve changed it to UK - Manchester.

This resolved the issue, but for curiosities sake I reverted the changes and it continues to work. If the issue happens again I’ll try your suggestions again and see what happens.

Thanks for the help.

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