Can view servers in lobby, cannot join them
 

Hello all,

I am unable to join any multiplayer games which is a bit odd because I can see them come up in the in-game browser. When I click on the server, I receive player information (name, score and time on server) on the bottom right. When I hit connect, my window changes to a view of Big ben, with 2x Ju-88s and a single Bf-110 and a "break" button on the bottom left corner of the screen. From there my computer does nothing and I am unable to join.

I have tried several things to get around this. I have tried connecting via direct connection, I have tried joining off friends on steam friends. I have restarted my router as well as adding an exception to my firewall and even going as far as turning off my firewall completely.

I don't know what else I can do. Any help would be great.

I'm no expert on this, but one suggestion I've seen elsewhere is for you to set up yourself as a server. ie. just set up a multiplayer game yourself, play it for a few seconds, then quit. As I've heard it described, this sets up the "handshake" settings within your PC that enables you to then join other servers. Worth a try. Good luck!

Sadly, that did not fix the problem. :(

So another thing. I decided to try again, instead of going under multiplayer > client I went to multiplayer > lobby. I saw the 'inter-escadrille francais' server and tried to join. It did the usual (big ben picture with the break button) but after 5 seconds it asked me for a password. So I obviously made a connection to the server. I didn't have the password.

I tried again to join via client and still could not connect.

Very odd!

Bump.

Hoping someone else might know what to suggest!

Check to make sure you have internet chosen from the source pulldown menu.

I do. :(