H2A Coop Campaign - can't connect to players

Okay, so I usually play MCC with a friend who lives in the US. (I’m from the UK)

We had no problems with playing whatsoever until maybe a week ago, when we couldn’t connect to each other. (it would cycle through the loading screen then take me back to the main screen with ‘LOADING…’ underneath and then plop me back into the Campaign sub-menu with “CONNECTION LOST - You have lost your connection to the game session”, and we have tried to switch who hosts the games (I usually do) and it still did not work.

Is there any possibility of clarification on this issue? He has also attempted to open his NAT type (with success, of course) and we’ve all reset our routers, checked our connections etc and it still didn’t work.

If this is a documented issue already, is there any way to fix this?

Sadly I have lag issues when playing co-op with friends from other countries (I’m from the UK so playing with people from the US comes as an issue to me)

I know this isn’t ideal but the workaround I did was to only play with others from the same country as you. The results of me doing this were satisfactory and enjoyable.

There’s another thread about this too but to answer it is a problem; I have it too, just tried loading a level but after a while it then cuts and loads the main menu, says:

“Connection Failed; your connection to the game session has failed, please try again”.

Done this about 20 times now with no success.

NAT isn’t the problem it’s the game.