PSA: Game Breaking Bug Affecting Everyone in Multiplayer. Read This if You Don't Wanna Ruin Your Save.

[SpaceOwl]

PSA: there's a game breaking bug that's affecting all players in multiplayer. If a friend or random joins you in the middle of campaign, they have to make a new custom character. And when they leave, the custom character will stay in your party permanently. You can't dismiss them to camp to switch with another origin character. So if you don't want this to happen, don't open your multiplayer session to public. Because trolls are randomly joining people's campaigns to stick their custom characters and leaving right away.

And joining with origin character make the host unable to interact with that character in camp. The game treats the origin character as another player character even when the player has already left.

if you try to help your friend by playing with an origin character, you still ruin his game by making the character not interact with the story. This means I cannot join a friend's game to tag a long for a bit, without completely ruining his story/game.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by SpaceOwl:

PSA: Game Breaking Bug Affecting Everyone in Multiplayer. Read This if You Don't Wanna Ruin Your Save.
PSA: there's a game breaking bug that's affecting all players in multiplayer. If a friend or random joins you in the middle of campaign, they have to make a new custom character. And when they leave, the custom character will stay in your party permanently. You can't dismiss them to camp to switch with another origin character. So if you don't want this to happen, don't open your multiplayer session to public. Because trolls are randomly joining people's campaigns to stick their custom characters and leaving right away.

And joining with origin character make the host unable to interact with that character in camp. The game treats the origin character as another player character even when the player has already left.

if you try to help your friend by playing with an origin character, you still ruin his game by making the character not interact with the story. This means I cannot join a friend's game to tag a long for a bit, without completely ruining his story/game.

Thanks. That is indeed some important information!

[athelasloraiel]

wow, not good.

[NashEquil]

That is crazy. Hope this doesnt happen to you. That is tragic.

[NashEquil]

Hope they patch it soon.

[Merk]

this is pretty commonly known as a issue its not new but take a free bump for the people that don't know.

[Clovis Sangrail]

The cool kids already know this, and they don't let friends join their personal game.

If you want to do multiplayer, then create a separate game for MP. Works fine, and you don't ♥♥♥♥ up your personal game.

[idaboss007]

You can change the join setting in the options menu and disable it. this is what you'll have to do if you want play single player and change it back to play with friends, since there is no single player option it seems that is the closest thing to get to singleplayer.
This is pretty sad, I helped my Cousin out, only to find out that i've messed up the "original" sense of her single player game because i joined. luckily i didn't pick an origin character.
I'm disappointed to find out that Larian couldn't bother to have a dismiss option and have that character be dismissed to Withers with a sort of "tag" so that if one wanted to join again one could and the cost would only be 100 gold not an entire save file. currently my cousin has started a new game same character :/

[Boson_Heavy]

[FIXED] - (Have not confirmed if all steps are necessary, but this is the solution I found when I ran into the same problem where I could not dismiss PCs due to not being able to speak to them.

1. Traveled with all characters back to camp (could not dismiss PCs)
2. Exited and reloaded game after all other players left the game (Still could not dismiss PCs)
3. In game settings, unchecked the "Direct Connection" box. (Still could not dismiss PCs)
4. Completed a long rest at camp. (All PCs could now be spoken to and dismissed successfully)

NOTE: Once you dismiss a player created character, you will need to speak to Withers in your camp if you want to have that character rejoin your party in the future.