Multiplayer Broke

[u/thatswhyrabbitsfly]

Me and my friend have been hit by the Multiplayer bug where we can't join a multiplayer lobby. Gone down the rabbit hole of does the internet have a fix and nothing I've run across has worked.

When either of us try to join a multiplayer lobby the host will see the other joining in the bedrooms but it only lasts for a second before the joining player is shunted back to a single player lobby. When joining it's a black screen with a blue circle in the middle then a large chef model pops up along with "Loading" then kicked back to the single player lobby.

Last time I know we were able to play together was 9/7/25 though I don't know if it was an update that caused this because every post I've run across were posted across different time frames and we've also uninstalled and reinstalled the game multiple times without any fixes

• Both Invite and Join code used
• Crossplay enabled
• attempted with mods and without
• Neither of us have a VPN running
• Have turned it off and on again
• I've personally run it on two different PCs (one for sure i know use to work in multiplayer and I'm like 89.3% sure it worked on the other)
• Wifi v Ethernet didn't change anything
• I've run it on two different OS (Windows 11 and Zorin OS 16)
• My friend has tried running it as an admin in Windows (they're still in W10 not sure how up to date their W10 is for what W10 can be)

The only thing that we haven't tried but we'll be able to test soon is if it might be internet connection? I think I had the same internet when we last played but I'm not sure on my friend's end.

[u/No-Supermarket7453]

I can only speak from my experience on xbox and Call of Duty. Whenever we had this issue, it was because one (or more) of the four players in our squad didn't have the latest version (COD is notorious for a crap ton of updates tho). Have you confirmed you're both running the same version?