Cant invite friends to play, It just says "invite could not be sent". Anyone else getting this? Tried with cross play on and off (we are both on pc, he on steam me on origin).

I'm having the same issue. My friend is on PS4 and I'm on PC (Steam). We both have entered each other's EA IDs but it keeps telling us "Invitation Failed"

Me too. I'm playing on Steam, trying to invite my friend on Xbox. I did login to EA using my Origin email/password when the game launched, and have shared my EA ID with my friend. He gets invitation failed as a message when he attempts to invite me.We looked up his EA login in game (seems to just match his Xbox login name) and I tried to add him and also got "invitation failed" as well.Some help on this issue would be great, we had hoped to play together tonight.

Same here. I'm playing on Origin, friends on steam. They can see me in "social" I can not see them or add them.

Same issue. Running on steam. Sounds like an origin login is supposed to pop up when I start, but I never get it. When I try to invite a friend using EA ID, it fails instantly.

So I figured it out. I had mistakenly turned off Crossplay. Apparently you can't even JOIN A GROUP WITH someone who has that turned on if yours is off.

Cant invite friends to play Squadrons

19 Replies

Grizzzlock
New Rookie
12 days ago
Same problem, 2025.
UncleanlyRope1
3 years ago
Same
dredog747
5 years ago
Me and my friend just got it and immediately started having issues with the multiplayer mode. We have wanted to play this game for a long time and once we got it we were so disappointed that we could not play together. EA, if you see this, please fix this issue, it would mean a lot.
falkor0001
Seasoned Novice
5 years ago
Though I was unable to add EA account names and getting an "Invite Failed" message, Steam account names that I added would show up in-game after a restart. However, I could not invite a Steam player from inside the game. After I had restarted and he showed up on my list inside Squadrons, I sent a team invite and received this error ID:
This was someone on Steam whose account I'd added via Steam. The only way to get our team of three together in a squad was to cancel the lobby with my Xbox squadmate, whom I'd added through Origin, and accept an out-of-game Steam invite to join the game of my Steam friend (I was luckily on Steam as well so we had the platform in common if nothing else) and then with him as group leader I was able to invite the Xbox squadmate in-game. It was difficult to maneuver these obstacles, but we did make it with a haphazard, out-of-game approach. I'd just request that there be some way to get friends who know their IDs to be in the same lobby regardless of who is doing the invite and from what platform. If I weren't facilitating via Steam, my teammates could never have played with each other even though we already knew each other. Thanks for keeping an eye on this.
falkor0001
Seasoned Novice
5 years ago
@EA_Atic I have had spotty ability to add friends from my squadrons in-game. Since 3.0, I have not been able to successfully add friends from any platform in-game. This reduces my ability to keep a squadron together and play with friends. May I suggest a "recent players" list of the squadron from the previous match? Also, since the matchmaking change today, I have had all my friend requests in-game result in a failed invite message. Do you have any insight herein? Thank you so much.
KAOS-ChaosAngel
5 years ago
Mine was solved when I turned crossplay on, since my hubby and son both had theirs turned on. But even Looking for a solo match, I couldn't get one with cross play turned off.
nicktumi
5 years ago
I've tried inviting my frined on Steam to a match, I'm on Origin. This sucks. Please fix this....
canadienbcn
5 years ago
It is not working for me either. I'm on PC (Steam) and friend is on PS4. Neither of us can invite the other. Confirmed crossplay is enabled on both machines. I have 2 other friends with Steam and I can play with both of them just fine, but Crossplay between PC and PS4 does not seem to be working.
Sonoma22
5 years ago
Still not working PSN and PC
EA_Atic
DICE Team
5 years ago
Thanks for the update! 🙂

/Atic