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[Ali Akbar]

I have been trying to play this game with my friend but it is not working. We both have the GOG and steam versions, all DLC's installed. We set the online options to LAN, used Nemirtingas Galaxy Emulator, restarted windows, used Radmin VPN, but no matter what we did, whenever one of us tries to join the game it says "Unable to join the game, the game you have tried to join is no longer available!" I searched this topic at cs.rin.ru and the internet but didn't get any solid answer. People here were saying how they were using VPN with the GOG version perfectly for coop but I can't seem to get it working. I stayed up all night trying to make LAN/coop work for this game but it does not work! This is what I did:

1st try
1) Extract the game (CSF)
2) Applied Goldberg Emu (normal one)
3) Configured steam.settings folder for DLC's, added steam_appid.txt, generated steam interferences from the original steam_api64
4) Used steamless on the game exe
5) Launched the game, went into matchmaking and both me and my friend tried to join each other (not at the same time)

Result: Unable to join the game, the game you have tried to join is no longer available

2nd try:
1) Extract the game (CSF)
2) Applied Goldberg Emu (experimental one)
3) Configured steam.settings folder for DLC's, added steam_appid.txt, generated steam interferences from the original steam_api64
4) Used steamless on the game exe
5) Applied Nemirtingas Epic Emulator (configured it, just changed name to match goldberg emu)
6) Launched the game, went into matchmaking and both me and my friend tried to join each other (not at the same time)

Result: Unable to join the game, the game you have tried to join is no longer available

3rd try:
1) Extract the game (CSF)
2) Applied Goldberg Emu (experimental one)
3) Configured steam.settings folder for DLC's, added steam_appid.txt, generated steam interferences from the original steam_api64, added disable_lan_only.txt everywhere
4) Used steamless on the game exe
5) Applied Nemirtingas Epic Emulator (configured it, just changed name to match goldberg emu)
6) Launched the game, went into matchmaking and both me and my friend tried to join each other (not at the same time)

Result: Unable to join the game, the game you have tried to join is no longer available

At this point I give up, mind you this all is just for the steam version, I first started with trying to make the GOG one work. I spent all night scouring the internet and it turns out many other people are experiencing this issue, have been for years actually. Some suggested it was because of dynamic ip's, some said it was because of NAT type, some said it was because of "out of sync" date and time zone settings in windows, but none of those were my issues. Ip was not a problem because both me and my friend could see each other in the lobby, for most people the issue was that they could not even see each other. I tried all the other claimed fixes but none of them worked. So either the newer game updates broke LAN, or I am screwing up somewhere in the configuration process. Please help me fix this, thanks in advance!

[HB]

Dying Light was given away free on the Epic Game Store some weeks back. Did you not acquire it then? If so, it would definitely work for online play although I have never tried it with the couple of Epic game accounts I have.

I don't know which online network (Steam, GOG, or Epic) the current version of the game uses, but before Epic opened its online network for free use and crossplay games started moving to that, crossplay titles that were Steam and GOG compatible required Nemirtingas' or a similar Galaxy Emulator because those games use GOG's network not Steam. Your examples above don't cite the use Nemirtingas Galaxy Emulator (and only Nemirtingas Galaxy Emulator emulator) which is what you would have to use for network play on GOG's network NOT a Steam emulator. Using a Steam version of the game won't work because GOG's network uses actual/real Steam app tickets to authenticate Steam users on the GOG network, and even a Steam emulator with networking support like Goldberg's will not generate real app tickets. So, only use the GOG version of the game if you want to play online with such crossplay titles.

With the release of Dying Light on the Epic Game Store, if Dying Light on all three PC platforms has been updated to now use Epic's online network for crossplay, you will need to use that and only Epic for multiplayer then.

The other option would be to use Dying Light's LAN-only networking mode (assuming it has one), and use a VPN or another tunneling method like Cloudflare's WARP to connect to your friend's game. That assumes that LAN-only mode doesn't use any form of online authentication which is not a given since some Steam games still authenticate with Steam in LAN-only mode although a good Steam emulator will usually suffice for this. Your comment above of "People here were saying how they were using VPN with the GOG version perfectly for coop" suggests that this will work with the GOG version of the game, but your three example attempts above are not that method.

[Ali Akbar]

I apologize, I realized did not specify properly, both me and my friend first installed the latest GOG version (1.49.7) (both our Steam and GOG versions are pirated). We did use Nemirtingas Galaxy/GOG Emulator, but it gave the same "Unable to join the game, the game you have tried to join is no longer available" error with or without the Galaxy Emulator. There was a EOSSDK-Win64-Shipping.dll in the GOG version too so I also tried using Nemirtingas Epic Emulator along with the Galaxy Emulator, but that gave some memory error when launching the game exe. After multiple failed tries to get the GOG LAN COOP to work, I decided to give the Steam version a try. I got the Clean Steam Files from cs.rin.ru (thanks Rui), and the steps/attempts in my main post explain everything I tried to get the Steam version to work, but that to was a failure and disappointment, kept giving the same "Unable to join the game, the game you have tried to join is no longer available" no matter what I did.

Yes, I was using Dying Light's LAN mode all the time, in both the GOG and Steam versions. Just to clarify, I did not attempt crossplay between Steam and GOG versions. I did use Radmin VPN but to no avail, same error message. Whenever I tried to use any online modes other than LAN the game would say "Failed to create online game session". Now one thing I noticed on the web was that the issue for some people was that they could not see their friends in the matchmaking lobby, so they had to mess with their internet driver and ip settings or they had to use a VPN just to appear in the lobby, but I can see my friend, both of us can see each other in the lobby, but whenever we attempt to join, the game shows the loading sign in the bottom right, then the screen goes black for a few moments, then the message "Unable to join the game, the game you have tried to join is no longer available" appears.

[HB]

[Ali Akbar]

[HB]

[Ali Akbar]

Well, the thing is, and to answer your first question (why I did not get the game when it was free on Epic), it is because both me and my friend do not have an Epic games account, my friend does not even have a steam account. Never needed them. I just got steam to get games that took long or could not be cracked, such as denuvo games (Jurassic World Evolution 2 etc), and to buy games I genuinely enjoyed and replayed multiple times and felt that the devs deserved the money. Usually what happens is I get the game from ElAmigos or cs.rin.ru, or here, then apply the Goldberg Emulator over, configure any ini files as needed and we just play. A game or two gave us problems so I got the multiplayer crack from online fix.me and just replaced their steam_api64 with Goldberg's and so their crack worked without the need for steam in the background (the game was GTFO if I recall correctly).

Back to the game, it gives "Failed to obtain EOS_HPlatform handle" while launching it, I even opened my browser in the background to see if it would work (usually games open the browser and tell you to login etc) but that did not do anything. But if it is possible, we really want to play without having steam or epic in the background, I will try creating a epic account and following your steps in obtaining the demo and mod kit, then will see if the "Failed to obtain EOS_HPlatform handle" goes away, but if it is possible, without any Epic account or Steam running in background.

Even people on official Steam foums of this game have been complaining of this exact issue (can see each other in lobby, when connecting it shows loading sign, then screen goes black, then it says "Unable to join the game, the game you have tried to join is no longer available" and boots the person attempting to join back to singleplayer mode), plus other coop issues.

[HB]

[Ali Akbar]