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Steam says I am not authorized to connect to servers

ThePinkCarebear

FNG / Fresh Meat
Sep 2, 2017
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Hi,

I am consistently having a problem whenever I try to connect to any server. After about a minute of being in the game all the other players will becoming frozen, any sound that was playing will become looped and I cannot interact with anything (basically it appears I have timed out). The game will stay like this until I leave the server or try to reconnect via the terminal. When I do either of those things I will be kicked back to the main menu (it is never done automatically) with the message "Steam decided that you are not authorized to connect to this server". Googling this issue has revealed very little information. Some have suggested that the server administrator need to reset their server but I don't think this is the case as this issue is nearly always happening to me (occasionally I am able to get through and play a game). I have tried completely disabling my anti-virus and that has not fixed the issue, re-downloading the game, validating game files to no avail. Also I played the beta and never encounters this problem, it only has occurred in the full game. When I check the logs I notice that these is a similar pattern of outputs that look something like this:

[0096.87] Log: Assembled 685 auto-complete commands, manual: 75, exec: 609, kismet: 0
[0099.27] ScriptLog: ROGameViewportClient::preBrowse() - Address: 203.26.83.67:7772
[0099.27] NetComeGo: Close TcpNetDriver_0 TcpipConnection_0 203.26.83.67:7772 09/03/17 00:02:01
[0099.27] Exit: TcpNetDriver_0 shut down
[0099.56] NetComeGo: Close TcpNetDriver_1 TcpipConnection_1 203.26.83.67:7772 09/03/17 00:02:01
[0099.56] Log: Pending connect to '203.26.83.67:7772/VNTE-Hill937?Name=Player?Team=255?HonorLevel=24?UniqueId=0x0110000101B9F6C5?game=ROGame.ROGameInfoTerritories' failed; Steam decided that you are not authorized to connect to this server.
[0099.56] ScriptLog: Got ConnectionError: CE_Generic with message: Connection Lost - Steam decided that you are not authorized to connect to this server.

I also sometimes get an error which says "SteamAuth Denied - Denied Connection By SteamAuth For: Invalid"

[0630.26] Log: Assembled 686 auto-complete commands, manual: 75, exec: 609, kismet: 1
[0631.91] ScriptLog: ROGameViewportClient::preBrowse() - Address: 221.121.154.19:7797
[0631.91] NetComeGo: Close TcpNetDriver_16 TcpipConnection_16 221.121.154.19:7797 09/02/17 23:32:24
[0631.92] Exit: TcpNetDriver_16 shut down
[0632.28] NetComeGo: Close TcpNetDriver_17 TcpipConnection_17 221.121.154.19:7797 09/02/17 23:32:24
[0632.28] Log: Pending connect to '221.121.154.19:7797/VNTE-HueCity?Name=Player?Team=255?HonorLevel=24?UniqueId=0x0110000101B9F6C5' failed; Invalid
[0632.28] ScriptLog: Got ConnectionError: CE_SteamAuthDenied with message: SteamAuth Denied - Denied Connection By SteamAuth For: Invalid

I get a sense that there is an authentication server which my computer is failing to communicate with. However I don't have this problem with any other steam games. Any guidance or thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
 
This usually resolves itself within a few hours.

Ducky;n1668147 said:
This sometimes happens if you were on a server while the steam master server decided to go down. Then when it's up again it will refuse you to connect to the server where you were playing on. The problem will disappear (meaning you will be able to connect again) after the RO2 server in question is restarted.
 
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