Will not connect to friend game on Switch

[kreptafire]

Apologies if this has already been answered. I ran into an interesting bug where I can see the cross-platform game being played by a friend on the switch, but when I try to connect to it, the connection times out and is unable to connect. Interestingly, I tried connecting to the exact same game from my windows PC and had zero issues.

I also couldn't add the friend on the mcpelauncher version on my steam deck but I was able to on the windows version. Not sure if this is a related bug and has to do with how friends are handled.

[sketch54]

I'm having the same problem, are you using the Flatpak version or .AppImage? I'm using the .AppImage and I'm wondering if that's the common problem here.

[kreptafire]

I installed it through the discover app store on my steam deck, so I think it's the flatpak version?

[sketch54]

I also installed the Flatpak version to test it and despite being a higher version than the .AppImage, the issue still persists. I looked through some of the other issues posted on the repo and saw that there were problems like ours marked as resolved. It seems that someone made a pull request which fixed it and it got merged, but you'd have to compile it from source at this point as no official release has been made yet with the fix.

[kreptafire]

How does one go about getting a new release pushed with the changes?

[sketch54]

For us we'll likely have to wait for an update on Flathub if we don't want to compile it from source. As I said before, another option is using the .AppImage but I think it's further behind than the Flathub release. I would hope that we get an update soon because this seems to be a widespread issue and a pretty big one at that.

[ChristopherHX]

This launcher has ci builds built by GitHub Actions, so snapshots have binaries. You just need to find them, there are not harder to find than the PR.

I created a new release with friend joining support of 1.19.73, but the next update will take longer.