Problem joining/forming party with other players or friends

[AbyssalDream]

Hello

So here's the short version

As I tried to form party with random players through recruiting section, I realized I cannot for party with anyone. I found and joined a clan with no problem, I can chat with others and use market (did not try trading items so far), yet I can't join any party and go into missions. The session is public.
I can send and receive invites but for both sides (me and the other player), After the invite is accepted, some loading (Please wait...) happens for about 15 seconds and then returns to navigation menu as if nothing has happened.
I can also see other players inside cities like Cetus moving around and playing emotes.

I have no firewall (disabled the windows firewall). Inside the game options NAT-PMP and UPnP are enabled and ping limit is unlimited.
However one odd thing is that everytime I log inside the game one massage pops up, telling me to ensure that no firewall is blocking UDP ports 4950 (whichever port I currently have set). But as I mentioned above I have no active firewall.

[AbyssalDream]

Bump. I need the answer badly!!!

 

[--K--Sharkfin]

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[Datursa]

The solution to this depends a lot on what internet you're using and what type of software you have on your computer. 

My first thought would be that your internet is not suited for online gaming, maybe your ping is so high that you can't matchmake with anybody. (Satellite internet). If this is the case, then there's not much you can do besides changing your internet, but if it is this, then its not like you have much choice for internet providers anyways. 

My second thought would be that would need to port forward like an earlier answer, though I don't port forward either and can matchmake just fine with mobile hotspot.

You can try switching to google's DNS server on your computer's settings. 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 . This has helped me and others before with warframe network and matchmaking issues. I don't use it anymore but there was a time where it did fix some of my problems, and I have recommended it to others and has fixed their issues too, maybe this will work for you too. 

[AbyssalDream]

1 hour ago, Datursa said:

The solution to this depends a lot on what internet you're using and what type of software you have on your computer. 

My first thought would be that your internet is not suited for online gaming, maybe your ping is so high that you can't matchmake with anybody. (Satellite internet). If this is the case, then there's not much you can do besides changing your internet, but if it is this, then its not like you have much choice for internet providers anyways. 

My second thought would be that would need to port forward like an earlier answer, though I don't port forward either and can matchmake just fine with mobile hotspot.

You can try switching to google's DNS server on your computer's settings. 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 . This has helped me and others before with warframe network and matchmaking issues. I don't use it anymore but there was a time where it did fix some of my problems, and I have recommended it to others and has fixed their issues too, maybe this will work for you too. 

I'm new to game but before I played Apex legends with 130 ping and GTA V, PUBG, Rainbow 6 and other online games. The weird problem is that I can chat with people, make friends and even traded once in bazaar. And got invited to a clan.

But I just can't form a party! that's all. If my net was blocked could I really do all that and just unable to play together? Also I heard if PPnP is active, port forwarding is useless.

[Datursa]

To answer your question about could you do all that chatting and trading without being able to form a party, yes, you could do all of that even if your internet was blocked for matchmaking. Since all those things actually connect to the game's servers and not people, parties and matchmaking are peer to peer, not dedicated servers. Peer to peer usually requires some sort of port forwarding. 

Did you try the DNS thing? If that didn't work, and you can't port forward either, then I don't think there is a way to fix your issue. Try changing internet source to see if maybe it works, your phone's mobile hotspot/tethering could be one to easily test or somebody else's you can borrow easily. 

[AbyssalDream]

2 hours ago, Datursa said:

To answer your question about could you do all that chatting and trading without being able to form a party, yes, you could do all of that even if your internet was blocked for matchmaking. Since all those things actually connect to the game's servers and not people, parties and matchmaking are peer to peer, not dedicated servers. Peer to peer usually requires some sort of port forwarding. 

Did you try the DNS thing? If that didn't work, and you can't port forward either, then I don't think there is a way to fix your issue. Try changing internet source to see if maybe it works, your phone's mobile hotspot/tethering could be one to easily test or somebody else's you can borrow easily. 

I do have the option of port forwarding on my router. But I don't know anything about it and every single tutorial I saw on the internet was model-based.

Should I disable router's PPnP option the set the port forward? What about the PPnP option inside the game should I disable that too?

Mine is Asus DSL-N10 C1.

The cells in port forward section that I need to fill are as follows:

Basic config:

Enable port forwarding  Yes/No

Famous server list   (FTP, TELNET, DNS, HTTP, FINGER and several more)

Famous Game list    AOE, BitTurrent, CS, Warcraft III, WOW

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Port Forwarding list

Service Name () / Source IP () / Port Range () / Local IP () / Local Port / Protocol (TCP/UDP)

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In which Beside Name and  Protocol I don't know what others must be filled with.

 

[Datursa]

I've never really port forwarded before but from what I remember, and this varies from router to router. 

You set a static IP for your computer, the same place you change DNS settings, but instead you set a static IP for your computer. Use this static IP you set up on your router's settings page.

For the name you could do Warframe or whatever. 
Source IP/Local IP im not too sure, this is the static IP you just set up, try it on one first then see if it works, if not try it on the other one leaving the other blank.
Port range you would put 4950 like you said earlier or whatever your Warframe settings port number is. If it has to boxes to fill in, like starting and ending range, just put 4950 on both or do 4950 and the other number that the Warframe settings indicates.
Local port im not too sure, but i think you can leave it blank for now. 

This should be enough for it to work, its kinda trial an error honestly, but that should cover most of it.

[aruless]

Quick guide for port forwarding, be sure to assign a static ip to your pc.

 

https://www.noip.com/support/knowledgebase/general-port-forwarding-guide/