DoodleDangWang

Buddy and I were playing off an on this week just fine on 8.4 (other than some frustrating occassional mismatch errors).  Today, we can get any match to initiate past kicking one off.  The host gets the Kick pop-up for the other, and the other is stuck at the loading screen.  We did notice GenTool was on 8.5 and did a reinstall and restart, but same issue.  Any thoughts or suggestions are appreciated, thank you.

Hello,

I've been playing Zero Hour off and on this year (win10), last played something like 8 months ago just fine with gentool and such off Origin Zero Hour with someone else with the same setup.  Tried playing today and when the game finishes syncing after kicking off the match, everything freezes for me and a "vote kick" option shows for my friend.  He also gets a vote kick option.  

We did notice the gen tool is on version 8.2 now and there is a new launcher, so we grabbed the new launcher, and installed Gen Tool 8.2.   Installs were successful, but no dice.  We then went through the ringer of the usuals:  reinstallation, turning off windows firewalls, disabling virus protection, direct connect to modems (NO ROUTER INVOLVED), but same issue.

Since no router involved, no protection of any kind software-wise, and everything up to date (that we're aware of), we're kinda stuck at this point.  Any and all suggestions are welcome.  

Thanks!