Stuck on "Please wait" when starting a game?

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Last played just before the new patch (12-10-13) without issue. Now, when playing with buddies, we keep getting a frozen "Please wait..." screen.

My buddies have "verified game cache" but still no luck.

ISSUE RESOLVED: The issue causing this problem is having downloaded custom maps (either too many workshop maps [see this link] or one or more corrupted maps).

The way to resolve the issue is as follows:

1.) From within the game, at the main menu, click "Workshop" at the bottom right.
2.) Click a map then click "Unsubscribe" at the bottom.
3.) Click a map then click "Delete" at the bottom.
4.) Repeat for every map.
5.) From the desktop navigate to "Documents\my games\company of heroes 2\mods\scenarios\subscriptions" & manually delete each map.
6.) Enjoy your working game!

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has everyone tried verifying there game cache? me and my friends played wheel of game cache often before we could play with coh1.

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13 Dec 2013, 02:10 AMWiFiDi

has everyone tried verifying there game cache? me and my friends played wheel of game cache often before we could play with coh1.

Yeah, as mentioned in the OP, we have. Thanks though.

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Have you played on any custom maps? I was getting people saying this was happening after they played on a Steam Workshop map but we weren't able to reproduce it.

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13 Dec 2013, 17:41 PMNoun

Have you played on any custom maps? I was getting people saying this was happening after they played on a Steam Workshop map but we weren't able to reproduce it.

I downloaded all available maps at once, but haven't played any.

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Should add: Using "Verify game cache" produces a "Downloaded 13.6MB" note in the downloads page.

Other members of TAWnet have reported the same.

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If I host the game, it seems to work.

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Before this issue started I had downloaded all the available maps, far more than 25, though I never played on one.

I have "unsubscribed" from them now, is there a way or need to delete them?