Remove player character from party

[ZestWeiss]

Does anyone know how to remove a player character from party? I'm stuck with a friends character and can't remove his for some reason.

[lada_ loving life!]

You need to choose "Closed" in the Options...
just a warning to anyone who has not read this in the thread here.
Choose the option "Closed" if you do not want this situation.

Yes, you will never get rid of that char otherwise... unless they fix it in the Patch 4.
Patch 3 just dropped, so let's hope a 'fix' is being designed now. Larian is aware of this bug and have publicly stated that they are now working on it. See the twitter(aka X) link above in the thread.

Again, CHOOSE the 'Closed' option in Options.

I started a whole new character run-through exactly like my other only without the 'open' co-op button. Fortunately, Larian addresses a lot of other bugs and fixes in Patch 3 and this will be an even smoother run! ...with my game in 'Closed.'

[Report™]

Originally posted by tar_galadriel:

I had the same problem just now. Suddenly one of my NPCs disappeared (Shadowheart) and another player appeared at my camp during the druid celebration party. I could even see their dialogue choices. And then the player logged out, leaving his character stuck at my party. I can't even remove them and invite Shadowheart back. My profile was set to public by default, and now I am stuck with a random character... I've been playing 18hours. Not in the mood to start a new campaign!

You can just reload the save before or during the celebration. But if you don't know that you can't remove the custom character and keep playing for hours, this won't work just like it doesnt for me :(

[TheEvilGentlemanTTV]

This needs to be fixed. We are doing a twice a month game night couch co-op style and this kills the ablity to move someone in or out, or move down to three to do NPC side quest.

[Sismanski]

This just killed a savegame for me and a friend... another friend joined a 2 player coop match and created a Barbarian, even though we needed a mage or rogue, but thought, whatever, its just for fun. After he left, we realized, we are now stuck with his character, even though we can reskill him, but we would have preferred to take Gale back into the party. We now started over after 20 hours or so, which isn't too long into the story, but long enough to be very annoying.

How could something so essential, which worked perfectly fine in OS2, go so bad here? Friends who join should have the option to create a new Hireling or take over an already existing character. When he leaves, the character should be present in the camp, with the option to leave him there or keep playing with him at any time. But we can't talk to those characters, we can't just remove them in sessions menu, killing them also doesn't help, because that doesn't help to make them disappear. This needs a hotfix, otherwise I see little hope, that this has any future for me for further playthroughs. We started over once already, and our friend wanted to join us again today, but this time I had to deny his request, which really is sad in a coop game like this :(

[ULTRA]

Originally posted by Unrealtairo:

Their games have always been like this. Div2 functions the same way.

Interesting. And how was it in Baldur's Gate 1 and 2? Oh? What's that? You could drop in and out and even import your character from your single player campaign? Wow, you make it sound like they took license with the series to make an intellectually lazy design decision!

[Loci]

KILL KILL KILL KILL

[Shield of Ultramar]

Originally posted by david_soule:

KILL KILL KILL KILL

Doesn't work, sadly. They'll still take up a slot.

[Vulcan]

You can atleast respec the stuck character in your party. That's atleast helpful till they fix this.

[poebist]

I can't believe they're going to fix this easy-to-fix bug.

[Josey]

YEEEEES

ALLOW US TO KICK PLAYER CHARACTERS IN MULTIPLAYER ! ! !

PATCH THE GAME !

[Digital-Deviant]

Yep something needs to change here - I cant even understand how these decisions were made? Taking control of a players origin characters seems an obvious thing to want to do...

I guess it kinda works if you start a game with 2 or three friends and make progress without them if you record progress during their absence so they can play catch-up story wise?

[yacms23]

Damn, just realised i bricked my savegame.... This really needs to be fixed asap.

[Pieshaman]

Tbh the first time I wanted to change my party I had to quit the game and look it up on the internet.
It not clear at all how to do this in begin.

[FeanorX66]

Not sure if it wa smentioned anywhere, i had this stuff hapen with an unknown entity as i am not playing MP.
I got a message "XXXX left the game" and suddenly i had a level 4 monk in the party. Weird ? Very weird. Luckily i save often so after trying to get rid of him i reloaded, not much lost. But the question remains, how can someone else end up in a strangers solo player campaign ?

[Sismanski]

Originally posted by FeanorX66:

Not sure if it wa smentioned anywhere, i had this stuff hapen with an unknown entity as i am not playing MP.
I got a message "XXXX left the game" and suddenly i had a level 4 monk in the party. Weird ? Very weird. Luckily i save often so after trying to get rid of him i reloaded, not much lost. But the question remains, how can someone else end up in a strangers solo player campaign ?

Guess your game was set to default "friends can join", which means any of your Steam friends can join as they please, or you had your game on public, which means any player on the whole world can see you playing in the game browser and can join you.

The other two options are private and invite only, while this isn't fixed, public and friends mode is just nonsense. Invite only is what you may want to setup your game on next time.