Well, I sadly regret to inform that THE ISSUE IS NOT SOLVED yet..
Not even using the solution presented here (by yours truly):
It actually worked just fine a few days ago, but then I just tried it again today (saturday, november 5th, 2022) and even with the Anti-Virus shields turned off, I had a hard time joining the cross play lobbies, getting the same PM7 or the PM65539 error message (seems to be related to connectivity issues) and even when I was able to connect to a cross play lobbies, I found 'broken' lobbies, like for example:
- Beginner Friendly lobbies with almost 20 people constantly 'loading', with 1 or 2 'real people' only (which were actually probably just bots) and the session would never advance..
- Beginner Friendly lobbies that had only 1 (one) track (Canada)
- Beginner Friendly lobbies with contact on (it should be off)
- Beginner Friendly lobbies that would take ages to load and would only move on after there was a 'migrating host' message and/or people would start to leave until there were only 3 or 4 people left..
Long story short:
Beginner Friendly Cross Play lobbies are NOT working properly.
I play the game on a PC, through Steam (Champions Edition), but some people from Play Station and X-Box (and probably Origin too) are also reporting similar experiences - the game can connect to the lobbies just fine if Cross Play is turned off though - which indicates the issue IS related to the cross play system..
It was all working fine until Patch 1.14 was released, so I tend to believe something on that patch 'broke' the cross play system somehow.
Sadly, there's nothing we can do other than turn cross play off if we want to play without too much stress, but that gives us only small lobbies with a lot less drivers to race against, making the whole cross pay feature kind of pointless..
