Re: Unable to connect to the EA servers, Battlefield 2042
@CLOWNVID-19
That's unrelated, but I'll explain how that works.
The "Repair" button on the EA app or the "Verify game files" button in Steam is just checking that the files on the disk are the ones that match the manifest file on the CDN for the respective storefront.
EA anticheat self updates independently of the game manifest file. When you are running the "Repair" or "Verify game files" you're just rolling back those 3 EA anticheat files (The EAAntiCheat.GameServiceLauncher.exe and the 2 DLLs for the launcher) back to the version that shipped with that specific game patch.
This is not a meaningful test, of any kind, to determine that the files are in a bad state. It's just a basic CRC match of the file on disk to the file on the storefront CDN. Of course they won't match.
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The issue you're experiencing is 100% a networking issue. It's either in your network or in between your network and ours.
But we can be sure that it's not an entire internet issue, as you've correctly pointed out that you can access the game, but you still get disconnected.
You can communicate with the game, but not our backend, which points to a configuration or networking issue with your machine. I can confirm that players from the same physical location in the world are playing just fine, so it's definitely not a regional or routing issue, to be sure.
I'm happy to help you continue troubleshooting this, if you like.
Next steps would be to grab a pathping to the EA anticheat backend, as well as things like nslookup to ensure that your local DNS cache can look up where to even communicate.
Do you want to keep troubleshooting? 🙂