Re: Can't join other people's games? All greyed out.

I'm trying to join some other people's games so I can play a bit of co-op, but it won't let me join anyone's games.

I'm past the prologue. I played through Chapter 1, trying to join games every 5 minutes till I got to chapter 2, and still the same. Every game lobby is greyed out, and I can't join. I try to do the Quick Match option, and still every time it says "No game with similar game progress has been found."

I've never had any online matchmaking problems. Is anyone else experiencing this issue?

I can't join anything either. I'm still on chapter 1 and only did the first quest, personally, but I still get results of upwards of 200 people in a related area of progression, and I have yet to be able to join a game.. However, it seems I have the option to INVITE people, but I can't invite total strangers without at least introducing myself, and none of my friends have it yet.

Basically that echoes my experience.

I have a friend that has the game, and I can invite him into a game... but he's busy, so I wanted to just jump in a random game, which doesn't work. Despite the fact, like you said, there being over 150 apparent matches.

I cant even send invites to my friend

My friend and I were in a game together and then his power went out and ever since then we can't invite each other to a game, it's all grayed out. He joined a random persons game and then for some reason the game invite worked. Not sure what's happening but it's pretty frustrating.

Servers are probably over capacity at the moment. Servers should work just fine after day one patch.

Servers? I thought the game run on P2P, not dedicated servers.

Same issue for me. Send me a friend request if you guys have no one to play with. None of my friends are getting this. They all claim its a L4D ripoff... pfft, yea. Valve invented killing zombies apparently.

Ya I just got a new account and xbox just for this game only to find out the online is broken atm, eh I am sure it will work itself out soon. Please add me I am new the whole rpg thing would like some partners to go exploring with :)

Same problem here, but it seems when they're on my friends list I can join! =/

Anyone can feel free to add me as well, the drop in out feature is what made me purchase this seeing as none of my friends have this.

Working just fine for me =)

Feel free to add me for co-op as well. Im on Chapter 7 right now, but I dont mind helping other people out who havent gotten as far too.

Same issue here. After about 2 hours of sending request to my friend, finally one allowed us to play together. Not a good start to a game that is heavy on the coop side.

I've had no issues at all. Me and my homie joined each others game easily. He sent me an invite to join his and there we went.

Most of these problems stem from the progress restrictions the game puts on people joining each other.  It's not a bug, it's simply the way coop has been structured.  I believe as long as the person with the least amount of core story progress hosts, everyone can join him/her until everyone is caught up.

The multiplayer is obviously bugged.

As i stated on another forum. My friend and I could not join each other's games. When we were on the same chapter, same quest, standing in the exact same spot. We had to completely go to the dashboard reloading the game before the "Player nearby" option popped up.

@ Back Lot Basher, Every game in the lobby is all greyed out. It shows a list of over 200 players on the same chapter with the same progress as you but when you click "Quick match" suddenly "There are no players with similiar progress. It obviously is a bug considering the Lobby shows only players with similiar progress as you and you still cannot join.

Hey Viking, sorry, I didn't know that about the lobby games.  I've never looked to see if public games were greyed out.  My friends and I connected flawlessly when we were both at the very beginning of chapter 1.  When you tried to join a friend, were you guys already part-way through the first chapter?  Did you try joining each other as soon as you started Chapter 1, with no side quests in your mission log?  Just wondering what might have caused the incompatibility.

We were both on the same quest, same area, same chapter. We did not manage to join each other until both of us closed the game going back to Dashboard and reloading it. When you have to restart a game just to Co-op thats totally a bug lol. Even after restarting i was unable to join his game. He was able to join mine though. Hopefully they patch this stuff real quick because the game is great but its multiplayer issues are setting it back a bit.

Last night I was able to join my brothers game by doing the following: He got into the game, then I backed out to the main menu (with blood in the water), join friends game by hitting x. No other method seemed to work for us, such as send game invite and try to join from xbox menu.

The day one pach should clear it up

Because I actually have no friends playing dead island Iam searching for random games, also. Until now - it only worked one time (yesterday). Today everything is greyed out -.-... I have no fun running around alone and killing zombies on my own. Buyed the game for a having a wicked multiplayer - since 2 days: nothing.

I called them and they said they knew about the issue. They also said they shut down multilayer and are hoping to have it back up by Friday.

Jeah Iam hoping also -.-... in the meanwhile the game is just getting some dust on it.

I just played for a good part of today and I've been able to join a few random games. It's still not totally gravy but I see improvement.

All greyed-out?  Ha ha, I have the option to join 1 game. :D

Glad I'm not the only 1 - I bought this with the sole intention of playing co-op with friends but so far i haven't been able to join any of their games despite finishing the prologue at the same time as somebody else :(

I created a new character and managed to get into 1 randoms game right off the bat but now can't get into any games with any characters.

Not happy at all :(

Everything seems to be working just fine for me over in the United States. I can join any person's game at anytime.

Found a solution :-)!

Happy playing in coop everyone! Finally it works with that video.

I'm still all grey feel free to add me though, also anyone experience loading last checkpoint and ending up in some random part of the town not able to accept quest? I had to delete and start all over again doing the hotel parking lot later on, thanks =]]

I noticed that you can go backwards in coop but not forwards. so if i was on chapter 5 but you were on 2 and invited me, I could join you... not the other way around though. when looking at randoms, you don't see people below you, so they tend to be greyed out  a lot... i hope this youtube video up above me really works.

well me and my friend were in chapter 5 and another was able to join and he's just out of the prologue.  now i am expieriencing the greyed out join button even though there are 257 matches of people who are in the same chapter which is 5.  

I think they may be in chapter 5, but maybe one or more MAIN quests ahead or behind you.

Thanks a lot for that vid! Made my evening a lot cooler :)

still not working for me

ive been trying all night finnally went to forums to see if it was just me. I didn't think so

Me and a buddy of mine finished our first play through without too many problems, but now that we are on our second play through we cant join one another. Anyone know when this "Patch" is coming? Co-op is almost unplayable atm.

i cant join any games etheir,all greyed out