Gravebound crashes to the main menu when a squadmate joins
A co-op lobby crashes back to the main menu within seconds of a squadmate joining — not a full application crash, just an abrupt return to the menu. It happens consistently for one specific player while their squadmate, on a different connection, plays the same session without any issue.
One detailed report during the playtest came from a Russia-based player whose sessions kept dropping to the main menu the moment a squadmate (playing from Belarus, unaffected) joined. A Crater Studios team member pulled the player's client logs and found the game had successfully created a dedicated match server for the lobby, but the player's own client was timing out trying to reach it. The studio was direct about what that does and doesn't mean: "We don't do anything special to block connections from Russia, but the server is in the States, so any router node/service provider could block it" — pointing at ISP or network-path filtering between the player and a US-hosted server, not a deliberate block on Crater Studios' side. They couldn't offer a list of server IPs to whitelist, since Gravebound's dedicated servers spin up per match rather than living at a fixed address, and said they'd look into getting the game added to the NoPing routing-optimization program used by other Western games with a Russia/CIS audience — with no confirmation yet that this has actually shipped.
What to try
- 01Make sure everyone in the squad is on the same game version and has verified their game files through Steam first. A separate player hitting what looked like the same crash-to-menu symptom found it was actually a version mismatch, fixed by updating — worth ruling out before assuming it's the same regional-routing issue.Reported
- 02If versions and files check out, this is very likely a network path problem between your connection and Gravebound's US-hosted match server rather than anything wrong with your install. A VPN that routes around the blocked path is the only workaround Crater Studios has suggested so far — they couldn't provide specific IPs or domains to whitelist instead, since match servers spin up per-session rather than at a fixed address.Reported
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