Joining multiplayer forces me to play someone's else character

[Grinch]

I try to join my friend's multiplayer session, the problem is, he used to play with someone else. So when i want to join him and play duo (without the other guy) I am forced to play other guy's character, i dont get player creation screen.

Is there a way to change that or we are forced to have someones custom character in party? Even when my friend dismisses the custom character, i am forced to play him when i join.

[Kappa]

Did they all choose origin characters?

[Grinch]

Originally posted by Kappa:

Did they all choose origin characters?

No they play custom characters, tavs

[Morion]

Only work around that I can think of is that your friend will start session in LAN on one PC. His second window with game should force him into his friend character control. He can later remove him from party to the camp, but before that you should join through the online multiplayer on your character.

I am not sure about mixing two multiplayer features, lan and online, but according to some reddit user it is possible.

[Grinch]

Originally posted by Morion:

Only work around that I can think of is that your friend will start session in LAN on one PC. His second window with game should force him into his friend character control. He can later remove him from party to the camp, but before that you should join through the online multiplayer on your character.

I am not sure about mixing two multiplayer features, lan and online, but according to some reddit user it is possible.

Would that work if we got someone into our game so he takes over unwanted custom character, then i join in?

[Morion]

Should. I had similar issue on one PC LAN when I was creating third custom character. I just had to use second instance to log on second character and then launch third game instance.

So, either game always log users in multiplayer for first available character or it is a complete mess ;) Our issues were similar so I would give it a try.