Plutonium

Me and my friend are trying to connect to play zombies and followed the guides to the T but nothing's working. My friend port forwarded, we have UPnP enabled and network set to private, firewall disabled and he tried inviting me from both lobby and custom match lobby. I also tried the 'connect' command when he was in both lobby and ingame.

I also wanna note that invites worked perfectly fine months ago without any port forwarding or disabling firewall but just stopped working after an update. Same thing with BO1.

I don't mean the gamemode, I mean specifically the zombies are really quiet compared to everything else, and everything in audio settings is maxed. Anyone know why?

Hadi77KSA thanks for the info on the console and server thing. However if you wanna talk deeper about private matches:
https://forum.plutonium.pw/topic/40968/can-t-connect-to-private-match
https://forum.plutonium.pw/topic/40587/private-match-invites-not-working-since-update

Hadi77KSA I'm trying it rn but nothing is happening when I execute it. Do I need to expand the console somehow? It's only 1 line rn.
Also good to know it's the same but I figured maybe we can try to join from the lobby instead of a private match. I noticed that servers have max 4 players but as soon as I connect it starts the match, and I doubt you can join a zombies match mid game, and there's no button to send invite while in lobby. Is there some other way to join servers with friends that I'm missing?

I haven't been able to find any documentation about how commands work for BO1. Specifically I need 'sendInvite' to try if it works over regular inviting (which hasn't been working for weeks but that's another topic).

ezranyirenda this is the bo1 forum

Anyway, still not working.

Every time I try to join my friend's lobby or they try to join mine we get stuck connecting. It used to work a few weeks ago but now it just doesn't. We have UPnP set up properly and Firewall disabled.

Still not working, even as of the latest update that happened in the meantime.

Update 2: now even that doesn't work. Help

Update: it seems to work now that everybody turned off their Firewall.

It used to work perfectly a couple days ago but now my ingame settings got reset and me and my friends can't connect to each other's private zombies games.