I am in mainland China, usually it takes a long time to connect to the server to get in (even in the case of vpn). Sometimes after successfully entering the game, it will be dropped due to various network reasons. It is strongly recommended that the game launch LAN mode. Or improve server connectivity.

I just bought it from Steam today, I gave up after a few hours of useless online trials with my friends.

Hello,

We're doing our best to provide the best possible multiplayer experience to our players around the world, which is why we are working with Steam and their infrastructure. We're sorry to hear that you're among the people for who are running into problems, but the Steam server infrastrcuture is heavily integreated into the game, so we can unfortunately not easily offer a LAN only multiplayer mode.