#timeout

The joiner's engine-side connect budget after entering a Steam lobby is a fixed ~3 seconds that game code cannot extend — any host-side delay exhausts it fast, so join recovery must be a fresh retry, never a longer wait.

The C# layer of s&box never closes per-pair Steam P2P sessions, so a host crash or task-kill poisons the pairwise transport state between two SteamIDs until Steam-side expiry clears it — typically minutes.