Hello!
I'm new to the game and really having fun with it and wanting to experiment with friends on just a private little area, nothing fancy, to learn all the ropes as it were.
So I wanted to share what I did because I had the same issue the last couple of days trying to figure this out and the suggestions above were not working.
For reference, I am an Australian player.
The people that I was trying to play with on a non-dedicated hosted server live in the US and the UK, neither of their hosted servers appeared on my list. In fact zero servers appeared for me so I thought maybe it was glitchy. But after a while, one server did show up! But it was not the hosted game I was after.
So I did some tinkering, that's what I do, I press buttons and see what happens, takes a while but I get there. I went into Steam itself and found something which ended up working! I took screenshots and was trying to include them but can't do it here.
It seems that the ability to play multiplayer in these non-dedicated hosted games is region-restricted to where you live in the world.
Within Steam once you've opened it, select the tab in the top left called 'Steam' or 'View' then go down to 'Settings' (both tabs can take you to the settings area).
When you click that, a separate window pops up.
Within this little window, on the left side there is a list of options such as Account, Family, In-Game etc etc, you want to select on 'Downloads'.
From there, you will see a section that says 'Download Region'.
Now, this section Steam sets by default based on where you live in the world, like I said I'm Aussie so by default mine was set to Australia. You can click on the little arrow and a long list will appear, from that list I chose 'US - New York' and hit ok. From memory, a box came up saying that Steam needs to restart to implement the changes, let it do its thing.
Then voila! I was able to start up Atlas and behold.....suddenly I had 12 servers appearing on my non-dedicated server list!
Wanted to share this for everyone else that might be having this issue and hope it also works for you.
