Can't connect to gallery in offline mode

@crinrict Thank you for the reply. 🙂 Hm, I don't know excactly why I was able to connect offline with the gallery, but I can try to explain it a little bit more: I often did not update my game for months with Origin, for different reasons. In those times I naturally had to go offline into the game and play. If I wanted to use the gallery, I just clicked on the gallery symbol and then "Connect" (Verbinden), like in the picture below. Even though I played offline, I was still able to always manually connect to the gallery ingame and search and download everything that I wanted, except builds that were shared after the new patch I didn't had. Those were greyed out, but that was ok, because the gallery had thousands of other builds to offer.

But now this is not possible anymore. If I go with the EA App offline into the game (no matter if my game has the latest patch or not) I can click "connect", but nothing ever happens. It's an infintive loading screen like this.

So something must have been changed there, because before with Origin I did connect with the gallery on a daily basis, even though I went offline into the game.

@crinrict Uhh you just gave me an idea!! 🙂 I tried something else: I started the game in offline mode, then switched back to the EA App and set it to online. Then ingame I could finally connect with the gallery!!! YAY!! ❤️ Thank you!! 

Although...my game is currently fully updated, I still have to check if it works the same way if I don't have the latest update. But I am very happy that you replied to me and wrote all your thoughts about how Origin used to work. I would have never thought that the solution might be that easy and obvious. Maybe someone else wondered the same like me and this helps them out.

Thank you for your work. 

@MissLjupka  Hello!  I found your thread because I had the same issue.  I opened the game in offline mode but was not able to connect to the gallery.  I thought that I would just be adding a "me too".  However, I had the opportunity to test your suggestion based on @crinrict 's information, since I did not want to update to the latest patch (23 July 24) right away.    While the game was open, I brought up the EA app, went into online mode, and was able to open the Gallery.  I was able to view all sections of the Gallery in this state.  I was also able to play my save without updating.  Before exiting the game, I switched back to offline mode in the EA app and my game currently remains un-patched.  So, in summary, for those who wish to not update for whatever reason and still access the Gallery, there is a workaround.

- Launch the game in offline mode

- While the game is open, bring up the EA app and switch to online mode

- Before exiting the game, switch back to offline mode

It's a few extra clicks and steps than we needed previously but at least it works.  Thanks for starting the thread and for the workaround idea!