Hey everyone,
I'm playing GTA Online (Enhanced) on PC and I've been running into a really frustrating matchmaking issue for about 3 months now.
Here is a breakdown of exactly what is happening:
The Problem:
Whenever I try to join a standard Public Lobby, the game drops me into a session completely by myself. It never matchmakes me with other players.
My friends and I play together on Discord. If they get into a populated public lobby and send me an invite, I cannot join them. Instead, I get this error message: "Player is no longer in session. Joining a new GTA Online session."
After the error pops up, it throws me into a completely different, empty session.
All of my other friends can join the same public lobbies and play together just fine—I am the only one in our group dealing with this.
What Works Perfectly:
I can join and play with my team without any issues in Closed Friend Sessions and Invite-Only Sessions.
We can run all missions together, and everything works smoothly with zero problems.
Context:
I installed the game around March 2026. Everything worked flawlessly at the start, but this public lobby issue suddenly started happening and hasn't gone away.
Has anyone else faced this specific issue or know of any solutions to fix it? Any help would be really appreciated!