Hello, thank you for your response! 

1) Offworld has worked fine for the last 3 weeks or so that I have been playing it, randomly started giving me this error yesterday.

2) I have the standard Windows firewall, Offworld is on the "allowed list". I disabled my firewall just to check and I still get the same error I have been getting when trying to connect to any kind of ranked match. I do not have any antivirus installed.

That error suggests there was a timeout trying to upgrade an HTTP Request to a Websocket.   This is usually caused by a slow/laggy connection or possibly something that is blocking the connection like a firewall or proxy.

Have you had any change to your internet service recently, or do you have multiple people consuming alot of bandwidth at the times you are experiencing this problem?  Or any other changes to your system/network that my affect network traffic?

I've added all of the .exe files in the steam/steamapps/common/offworld (Offworld, Stardock Launcher, and Updater) to my firewall exceptions list, still doesn't work.

Is there some other file or file location I should be adding to my firewall exceptions?

However, like I said previously, even turning off my firewall did not fix this issue, so maybe this doesn't even matter..

My guess (and I really have no idea), is that it has something to do with the fact that every time I tell Steam to validate Offworld files, it has to redownload the same 14MB file. I have deleted the Offworld folder from steam after uninstalling, then reinstalled, and still get this same file validation issue.

The 1 file message is not a problem and is (frustratingly) expected.

Some questions:

-Is this new:

C:/Users/will/OneDrive

That you are mapping your MyDocs to OneDrive?

-Is this a laptop?  If so, and you take it to another location with Internet does it work?

-If not, disable this in the Steam settings:

Go to:
\Documents\My Games

Rename Offworld to Offworld_Old
Try to run the game again.

-If that fails, do a clean boot:

Create a new Windows Administrator (<--important that its an Administrator) account:

Windows 7: 

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/create-user-account#create-user-account=windows-7

Windows 10:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/create-a-local-user-account-in-windows-10

Windows 8: 

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/create-user-account#create-user-account=windows-8

Log in under that account and try.  If it fails, and while still under that account, please click the link below for performing a 'clean boot' under it:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/929135

After you've loaded Windows in a clean state, please try once again.

*IMPORTANT NOTE*
Once you are booted into a clean state, you may need to Install the Steam service again. You can do so by trying to start up Steam. If Steam asks you to install the Steam service, simply hit "Install Service" and try to boot up Steam again:

http://sd.stardock.com/acole/Images/Jing/2016-03-01_1335.png

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/490123938431097455/

This post was interesting as even though I told my computer to save all docs to my local machine, Offworld is still trying to load/save from OneDrive. Maybe this could be the issue as pointed out by someone on Discord?

Well I finally got Offworld to look in my local documents folder rather than in Onedrive, however the issue still persists :/

[OptionsSave] Loading: C:/Users/will/Documents/My Games/Offworld/GraphicsOptionsSave.xml and C:/Users/will/Documents/My Games/Offworld/SteamCloud/GameOptionsSave.xml

00:00 - [OptionsSave] Saving: C:/Users/will/Documents/My Games/Offworld/GraphicsOptionsSave.xml and C:/Users/will/Documents/My Games/Offworld/SteamCloud/GameOptionsSave.xml

00:00 - [Rendering] Resolution changed, Previous: 1920x1080 (Fullscreen), Target: 1920x1080 (Fullscreen), Actual: 1920x1080 (Fullscreen), Monitor: 0->0

00:00 - [Steam] Initializing Steam

00:01 - [Tachyon] Initializing Tachyon with version number:1.19.19365

00:01 - [Tachyon] Requesting Seasons List

00:01 - [Tachyon] Requesting cached Tachyon Authentication.

00:02 - [Tachyon] Authentication success.

00:02 - [Tachyon] Requesting agents available

00:02 - [Tachyon] Standalone servers available

00:09 - [Tachyon] Requesting Seasons List

00:09 - [Tachyon] Requesting Top player list for leaderboard 1v1

00:09 - [Tachyon] Requesting Top friends list for leaderboard 1v1

00:09 - [Tachyon] Requesting my page list for leaderboard 1v1

00:09 - [Tachyon] Requesting Top player list for leaderboard 4p_ffa

00:09 - [Tachyon] Requesting Top friends list for leaderboard 4p_ffa

00:09 - [Tachyon] Requesting my page list for leaderboard 4p_ffa

00:09 - [Tachyon] Requesting agents available

00:09 - [Tachyon] Requesting my page list for leaderboard 1v1

00:09 - [Tachyon] Standalone servers available

00:09 - [Tachyon] Requesting Match: Players=4, Teams=4

00:12 - [Tachyon] Tachyon active leadeboard list response.

00:12 - [Tachyon] Tachyon my standings leaderboard standing response failed or is empty for leaderboard ONE_VS_ONE

00:12 - [Tachyon] Tachyon top player leaderboard standing response for leaderboard 4p_ffa

00:12 - [Tachyon] Tachyon my standings leaderboard standing response failed or is empty for leaderboard FOUR_PLAYER_FFA

00:12 - [Tachyon] Tachyon top player leaderboard standing response for leaderboard 1v1

00:12 - [Tachyon] Tachyon friends leaderboard standing response for leaderboard 1v1

00:12 - [Tachyon] Tachyon friends leaderboard standing response for leaderboard 4p_ffa

00:12 - [Tachyon] Tachyon my standings leaderboard standing response failed or is empty for leaderboard ONE_VS_ONE

00:20 - [Tachyon] OnMatchMakerStatus: Error

00:20 - [Tachyon] OnMatchMakerStatus: Notification status type is error: set_fail_handler: 20: Invalid HTTP status.

00:50 - [Tachyon] Requesting Match: Players=4, Teams=4

01:00 - [Tachyon] OnMatchMakerStatus: Error

01:00 - [Tachyon] OnMatchMakerStatus: Notification status type is error: set_fail_handler: 20: Invalid HTTP status.

01:07 - [Tachyon] OnMatchMakerStatus: RequestCancel

01:07 - [Tachyon] Requesting agents available

01:07 - [Tachyon] Standalone servers available

01:09 - [App] AppMain::OnDestroy()

01:09 - [OptionsSave] Saving: C:/Users/will/Documents/My Games/Offworld/GraphicsOptionsSave.xml and C:/Users/will/Documents/My Games/Offworld/SteamCloud/GameOptionsSave.xml

01:09 - [Steam] Uninitializing Steam

No, you shouldn't need any port forwarding.

So, it appears that you were able to get into ranked matches on Feb 28th, and then something happened where is started failing.  So I'm curious if there was something installed around this time that may be causing the problem.  You can check this by going to your control panel, open up Programs -> Programs and Features, then sort by "Installed On", did you have anything that was installed on/near Feb 28th or March 1st.  

Also, just to verify you are not going through any proxy, if you go to this address ( https://www.whatismyip.com/ ) to see your IP address on both your laptop and game computer, do you get the same IP?

The only thing I did the day it stopped working was to flush my DNS because twitch videos were not loading. Did a command prompt, ipconfig/flushdns

Can you please try loading https://websocketstest.com/ and see if it succeeds?

Was there a mini patch or fixes done to the Ranked servers around 3/1/18 which would be causing this?

I did a Windows system restore to an automatic save back before I had this issue, have tried clean booting, turning off firewall, uninstalling/reinstalling steam and Offworld and nothing seems to work..

That shouldn't have an impact on your ability to join queue, most players are currently missing this FFA count. Does your laptop have Jupiter's Forge installed?

I keep getting the error message: Your Path system environment variable does not contain "Windows\system32". When I try to start up the game from my Steam library.. .

This thread has changed a bit over time so it difficult to tell what issue you are referring to.

Sean Drohan
Stardock Product Lifecycle Manager