Larian Studios Forums Divinity: Original Sin 2 Divinity - Original Sin 2 - Bugs & Technical Problems Game crash on joining a multiplayer game

OK Update: I noticed that the lobby has a message, "DC'd from the global chat server." and then, "Could not connect to the global chat server." Related? I tried typing in chat and upon hitting 'enter' to submit my message, it froze again. it seems any attempt to connect freezes it