[Apex] Friends unable to join and vise versa

Just wanted to chime in and say this is definitely happening to me as well, and like you I am playing with my roommate, so we are on the same network. Three of us are playing together, the one not on our network always gets in. Between me and the roommate, one of us gets in each time but it's a crapshoot which will stay and which will be kicked.

I have experienced this before on other games and it usually has something to do with poor local network optimization. Usually port forwarding can work around it on your router but I have not found a walkthrough to do it with this game as it is so new.