You just need to have steam open and logged in in order to access the matchmaking
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Shouldn't need to do anything too wild to get it to point where you can host a lobby and start the game. That said, the game is still in a pretty janky state right now so it might fail for any number of reasons. Thanks for trying it out, though! I'm still working to get through some of the NetCode problems and will hopefully have a solution before the showcase.