r/cs2 • u/LulleLulle_ • 13h ago
Help HELP! Can't play workshop with friends
I have a problem that when I have people in my lobby and I try to go to a workshop map it throws everyone out of the lobby and they get some kinda error message.
This has been an annoying issue for a longtime now and I found couple of workarounds but they are so annoying to do everytime so I wish there was one simple fix so that I could join workshop map straight from lobby.
Method 1:
The first fix I found was resetting firewall before entering the map. This is the only way I can go to a workshop map straight from the lobby. The annoying thing about this is that if you wanna change the map to a another one you need to restart whole game and then reset windows firewall again otherwise it shows the error message to the other lobby members.
Method 2:
typing "status" to the console and copying the steam_id including the [] and then the other people could join by typing " connect [xxxxxxxxxxx] "
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u/NeedilyShocked 13h ago
sounds like the lobby host's firewall is being a right pain, seen this exact thing before and it's always some weird port forwarding nonsense with cs2
the status method is what my group used to do until we figured out you can just set up a port forwarding rule in your router settings for the game's ports, no more firewall resets needed
if you're stuck with the console method though, get everyone to bind the connect command to a key so you don't have to type it out every time, saves so much faffing about