Dead Space 3 co-op - Failed to join game
So yeah, like the topic says.
Me and my friend bought this game recently with the specific intent of playing it through coop-style. Thinking that Dead Space franchise has so far been a quality product overall, I was hoping all would go smoothly.
No such luck. When trying to join each other's games (both of us tried to host), the game gives "Failed to join game". I've tried searching for help on this, but so far I've seen no confirmed-working solutions for this. Suggestions range from "disable your anti-virus" to "forward ports xxx, yyy, zzz" etc. We tried lots of different combinations of these suggestions, but to no avail.
Both of us have the same issue. We're playing on PC, with a standard ADSL connection. I've played a number of different online games, and not faced this issue yet. This day and age, I'd expect these types of connection issues to be thing of the past.
Quite frankly, I feel totally ripped off. Like I said, I invested my money on your product to play with my friend, but now that seems to be money wasted. If one of the key selling points of the game was the new co-op mode, I'd expect it to work!
Is there any official workaround/fix for this issue? Is there any confirmed solution? I'd be so happy to have an answer for this.
Thanks for any reply.
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A week has passed and no replies... ☹️ Well, I guess I had my hopes too high.
Some additional details: I switched my broadband modem to bridged mode, hoping that would solve the issue, seeing as some of the semi-official answers here have pointed that forwarding ports might help. Unfortunately, this didn't help either. I'm starting to believe that this problem is unsolvable. I can't overstate how dissappointed I am. I was really, really hoping to play this game coop with my friend.
Thanks a lot... ☹️
Hi,
Some good news, at least from my end. I managed to track down the problem: my game was not up-to-date!
So what I did was go to Origin, select "Check for updates" (or what ever it is in the english version of Origin). There was an update available, so downloaded that, started the game, and the coop-game is working!
Funny is that I thought that Origin will inform about any available updates for the games, so I had totally skipped that option until now.
I really hope this helps someone else with this problem 🙂
