Maps won't load

StarCraft II Technical Support
23

doesnt work to me. i cant enter or create any lobby.

24

Same issue here. fresh install and tried using the repair option.

  • Icons for Players/Maps dont load often times
  • Custom lobbies remain on “loading”
  • Trying to create a lobby would leave me stuck on “Entering lobby”
  • getting invited into lobby would result in a “CLIENTSIDECACHE_READ_CONNECTION_FAILED”
  • Most buttons greyed out and hovering reads "not available while initializing game mode "
  • It is possible to start campaign and i rarely manage to get into an online game or maybe 2 in coop/custom but the issue reoccurs almost always.
  • Attempts to fix i tried:
  • As mentioned, fresh install and repair tool used
  • Firewall perms checked and given access to SC2
  • Deleted Blizz entertainment folder in %ProgramData%
  • PC restart, modem restart…etc. all that basic shebang
  • Tried CMD commands ( IP renew and flush DNS )
25

Same Problem Here.

Thank you Blizzard. Your product simply dont work. It is very difficult indeed to just allow players to play the game they bought while not connected to the net.

26

for me I can’t make lobbies with the maps that load but it does work when I don’t have any maps loading and some one invites me to a lobby

27

UGH yes, BLIZZARD THIS IS GETTING OLD, NOW FIX THIS SPAGHETTI CODED BULL CRAP

28

I just re installed Battel .net and Starcraft 2 into my Mac M1, and have same issue. Can it be related to firewall settings? Is anybody solve this problem?

29

Same issue on Mac m2. Hope anyone can solve it.

30

Still is happening. I disabled the Windows Firewall completely. So the problem is somewhere in the software.

31

This happens 100% on any new installs still. I have installed on 2 Macbooks and 2 Windows PC’s ( 1 desktop, 1 laptop ). There is nothing to repair, it’s fresh installs, the 2nd mac was 100% new, just purchased, so no previous game data of any kind. The game is just broken.

It just limited to about 1mbps and takes ages to download maps and whatever it needs. If you are patient enough, eventually it will work, but wating hours to start a game in 2025 is absurd. Once the caching is done the game starts without any more issues.

This is not a connection issue, because downloading the game happens at 50+ Mpbs so the first start limit is not from my connection.