Valve Anti-Cheat Challenge Timed Out with possible cause

strategiccheese

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So today i decided to play 1 game to find that as i turned my headphones on I found that i had no sound. After trying to work through the issue i came to the only remaining conclusion that it was a game issue and i needed to restart the game. This worked and i loaded back into the game with sound. We unpaused and i started going down the zipline..... then my screen froze and i was greeted with this pop up. 1733206570031.png

Now this is hardly a new complaint on this forum or even by me but I think I have identified the common factor among all the stories and all of my experiences with this bug. From what i can tell this always seems to start with an unrelated problem that causes someone to restart the game or to crash. This issue then pops up preventing us from rejoining the game. I suspect something about closing the game and restarting it is causing this pop up to happen. This is a massive problem because its causing people to abandon games where their team is already behind (due to the issues the player is experiencing) against their will. Additionally, the primary way most players will attempt to fix an issue is to restart their game. Which means this issue could be triggered off of a completely normal and expected action from the player.

MatchID: 29697476

Initial disconnect at 5:42

Reconnect and valve anti cheat time out at 6:02-6:15
 
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