Game freezes at 80% loading || GameAnalytics issue

[Jasontti]

Discussed in #16612

^{Originally posted by AnatolyVI October 21, 2025}

Disclaimers

• I have searched the issue tracker to check if the issue has already been reported.
• My issue happened while using mods.

What happened?

While I launch the game for the first time, without mods, with no workshop subscriptions, I select the language and then wait for loading.
Suddenly, loading stops at 80%.
After a 5~6 minutes of waiting, I finally accessed the main menu, but in my console repeats an error about GameAnalytics.

Reproduction steps

1. Launch a game
2. Loading to 80%
3. Huge freeze
4. Access to a main menu

Bug prevalence

Happens every time I play

Single player or multiplayer?

Other

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Starting the game

Version

v1.10.7.1 (Autumn Update 2025 Hotfix 3)

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No response

Which operating system did you encounter this bug on?

Windows

Relevant error messages and crash reports

Error in GameAnalyticsManager.RequestAnswerFromRemoteDatabase: Could not get an authentication ticket. {Could not retrieve Steamworks authentication ticket for GameAnalytics}
   at Barotrauma.GameAnalyticsManager.GetSteamAuthTicket() in <DEV>\Barotrauma\BarotraumaShared\SharedSource\GameAnalytics\GameAnalyticsConsent.cs:line 93
   at Barotrauma.GameAnalyticsManager.GetAuthTicket() in <DEV>\Barotrauma\BarotraumaShared\SharedSource\GameAnalytics\GameAnalyticsConsent.cs:line 81
   at Barotrauma.GameAnalyticsManager.RequestAnswerFromRemoteDatabase() in <DEV>\Barotrauma\BarotraumaShared\SharedSource\GameAnalytics\GameAnalyticsConsent.cs:line 296

[Jasontti]

Maybe there should be something that fails out if GA connection can not be made in timely manner.

[Regalis11]

This seems to be the same (or a similar) issue as #16250, which we thought we had fixed