[Alpha Ring/Series X] Can't connect to Forza servers after problematic update

Last night, I had to do a mandatory update to the latest Alpha version and, during the verification process after the download, the console was always hanging at 38%, even after 5 tries (the console wouldn't redownload the update, always skipping the download step and jumping straight to verification - even a cold restart after a few minutes unplugged couldn't force a new download).

Had to do a hard reset, keeping my files and apps. This procedure went apparently okay. After logging with my MS account, the console triggered the download of the update, which was fine and I was finally back on the dashboard. So I checked my system and network settings and everything looked correct. Then I started my installed games one by one to sync my savegames from then cloud.

That's when problems arise. My installed Forza Horizon games (4 an 5) synced fine (takes a long time, as their saves are MASSIVE) showing all my game progression and even paid content correctly. But inside them, I wasn't able to use any online features, saying the servers are offline in both (some times, saying I wasn't even connected to the Xbox Network). With the latest Forza Motorsport, things were even worse, as it couldn't even sync informing me the Forza Servers were not available (this game depends on a connection even for single-player progression, which sucks).

I went back to other games, like The Crew 2, The Crew Motorfest and CarX Drift Racing Online. The first two are always online like Forza Horizon and both were okay, showing other online players in their maps and driving around their respective worlds. CarX showed its multiplayer lobbies and I was able to play in all that I entered, no problem.

So the issue seems to be only with the Forza servers, which seemnto be fine as I could watch many streamers on Youtube and Twitch playing the games fine. One could argue that I could've been banned for some reason, perhaps (impossible, I'm a clean player), but without a connection to the games' servers, I can't even access the message tab andnsee if this was the case.

But just to make things more strange, when I go back to the network settings in my console, everything looks fine, my NAT is open and all tests run fine, without issues... UNLESS you use the LB + LT + RB + RT trick after some of the tests (whick opens detailed results of each one). When doing so, all results shown are unavailable, saying there's a problem right now and asking to try later.

So there's that. This behavior started about 6 hours ago. Had to catch some sleep, kept the Series X fully turned off and unplugged all this time. Woke up a few minutes ago, turned the console on, still the same situation.

Can any other Alpha tester replicate problems with Forza titles? Could this latest alpha update be bugged? Any answers and suggestions are welcome. Will be at my mom's house for te next hours, so I'll try any suggestions as soon as I come back.

Thank you all and sorry for the long read!

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