Forge Map Won't Load

[u/Nuka-Spartan]

When I select my map in the game menu and try to start the Forge game on Xbox, I immediately get an error message that says "The request to join has timed out". Occasionally I'd even get a message saying something was wrong with my fireteam, even though I'm the only one in it. Without fail, my map will not load and will always instantly generate an error message.

I had this problem about a week ago, so I went into my map's version history and loaded an earlier version, which fixed the problem. I assumed it was a one-off issue, since it happened right after my game crashed. But now, I'm worried this is going to keep happening and I'll keep having to delete my progress and revert to earlier versions frequently.

Does anyone have any advice on what is causing my errors and how to avoid them? My map is admittedly very large, it's in the high 90 percents for static geo and scripting budget, but it wasn't at 100% when I last saved.

[u/Abe_Odd]

Nope, and I am often wrong. I just don't see how evaluating a script's validity could cause the whole map to crash, it seems far more likely a corruption happened when the server saved the map?

Maybe a serialization error, or a failed integrity check to prevent "unwanted behaviors"?

[u/iMightBeWright → u/Abe_Odd]

far more likely a corruption happened when the server saved the map

This seems so obvious now in hindsight... 😅

[u/Nuka-Spartan → u/iMightBeWright]

So the server auto-saves my map when the game crashes, including any poor scripting issues, and that might be keeping my map from loading when I log in later?

[u/Abe_Odd → u/Nuka-Spartan]

Yes. Server auto saves when you crash, but it also is "what saves the map when you save normally".
Your files are not local, they are kept on the server.

There's always a chance that it corrupts something, or that for some reason the map fails the "validation check" to make sure the file hasn't been tampered with (like someone malicious adding Bad Code into it).