Unable to find specific lobbies

  • Game Version: v.100.17.27932.0

  • Build Number:(486684R)

  • Platform: Steam

  • Operating System: Windows 11

Issue:

(please provide a detailed description of the issue)
Unable to find custom lobbies.
When searching for a specific lobby in the lobby browser nothing appears.
Tried to find it as soon as it was created. tried to wait more than 15 minutes after lobby creation.
Tried to find lobby while the game was running.

Trigger Event:

Creating a custom lobby, then using the search bar in the lobby browser.

Repro Steps:

  1. Create a custom lobby. Doesn’t matter what settings to put.
  2. You or someone else then look into the lobby browser for that lobby
  3. Refresh as many times as you want, the lobby is not appearing.

Since this is the only way to spectate a live game, this means it is impossible to spectate live games of people you know currently. The only workaround to spectate is waiting for the game to be over and the person sending you their replays.

Feature request:
As a user I want to be able to live spectate games from my friends easily.
Business impact: a fair amount of users want to be able to cast games live since it provides a higher emotional impact than doing it after the fact. Higher emotional impacts means more user retention and overall better success of the game.

Thank you for your consideration.

I don’t seem to have such issue, did you try restart your computer?

Attempted fixes (none worked)

Restarting computer (10times)
Reproducing on different machines in different networks, 5 in total.
Uninstalling - reinstalling
Verified integrity of files
Connected to XBOX live service in game
Disconnecting from the same service
Creating lobbies with every different combination of parameters - ie: Spectate allowed/forbidden - Spectator delay - game mode etc
Waiting up to 30 min for the lobby to show up in lobby browser while refreshing every 5 minutes. Did this for opened lobbies as well as started ones.