Camb0Sl1ce wrote: »

I've had this happen to me as well, also the xbox party chat will bug out where half of the party will just say "connecting" when they finally come back after about 20 or 30 seconds the other half goes out?

This is due to things like NAT settings. When you join a party, your network has to be compatible with the other people in the party. If your NAT is open, for example, you can connect with pretty much anyone. If your NAT is closed, however, you may have issues trying to connect to another person with a closed NAT. For NAT settings, you can check the network settings dashboard on your xbox. This area should also be able to help you find other issues with your connection if you have any. The best fix is usually simply using a wired connection. If that isn't feasible, try opening ports on your network (google has a lot of info on this). Anything else can usually be solved with a little bit of troubleshooting and the xbox's own diagnostic tools.

If someone has restricted privacy settings, for children who are under parental locks on their xbox for example, they should show up in the party (connected) but you will not be able to hear each other. This can also be the result of muting or blocking someone, or being muted or blocked by someone. To fix this, one or both of the players simply need to change their settings or unmute/unblock the other person.

And sometimes it's just server-side stuff on xbox's end. If xbox live doesn't like having two connections in the same party (maybe they live far apart so there's high ping, maybe they are not stable on the network individually, maybe the server side of things is under a lot of stress from other factors) it may hold the party together only temporarily, and break the players into separate parties when the connection is too unstable. Only fix for this is make sure your own connection is good, wait for xbox's server to get better, or try again.