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Upon pressing "Browse public games" button in the multiplayer menu an error appears: "Notice - Select failed: invalid argument" and the server list does not load. Attempts to join through the Steam menu also result in "failed to establish communication to the server" message.

bitsbytes wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2024 11:29 am Upon pressing "Browse public games" button in the multiplayer menu an error appears: "Notice - Select failed: invalid argument" and the server list does not load. Attempts to join through the Steam menu also result in "failed to establish communication to the server" message.
factorio-current.log

likely because our matchmaking servers were not keeping up, should be resolved in a bit

After some more testing its continuing to occur, even in the "browse LAN games" menu. I'm not sure what part of a local game requires connection to a matchmaking server but this is leading me to believe it is not related to that.

I am unable to reproduce this locally on my Mac. Is this issue still occurring for you?

This also happens to me and a few other people in discord.

I tried both macos 14 Sonoma and 15 Sequoia does not work
I tried both version 2.0.7 and 2.0.8 it does not connect

the error message is same as OP "Select failed: invalid argument" the moment i try to load multiplayer lobby.

Here is the log and screenshot.

This also happens on both steam version and standalone version so it's not related to steam account

Surprising I was able to fix this issue by deleting my mods folder. why that fixed it i have no idea.