join mid game does not let me make a new character, why??

[Scrubdaddy]

why does it take a existing character out of the wardrobe and not make me a new one??

[.Master Jiren, The Strongest]

im not an expert and have not played multiplayer yet myself, so take this with a heavy grain of salt as im not a reliable source.

But my understanding is that this is how its meant to be. if you join mid game you're meant to pick a cast member or maybe a hireling. if you want to create your own character you have to all start the game together. the steps for which im told would be:
everyone joins the party together
host clicks new game
everyone makes their characters
everyone ventures forth

thats my understanding of how its meant to go. so what you say sounds normal to me

[Miles]

i not sure what you mean i often join my friend who keep replay that game like sometime in late act 1 sometime middle of act2 sometime even act 3 i can create my own character everytime tho.

[Scrubdaddy]

Originally posted by Miles:

i not sure what you mean i often join my friend who keep replay that game like sometime in late act 1 sometime middle of act2 sometime even act 3 i can create my own character everytime tho.

im saying that i have a party of 4, if a 5th friend wants to play, when they join it should surely let them make their own character rather than use one of the 4 that is in the wardrobe

[Nibbie]

The game is story-based, your character is supposed to make a bunch of decisions throughout the game that affect them and how people react to them. That would be vastly diminished if other characters constantly showed up and disappeared.

I think you also just have different expectations in general of how multiplayer focused this game is. This is more of a normal singleplayer RPG, that lets you invite friends to control your otherwise NPC party members. It is not a drop in / drop out multiplayer game, nor does the game or anything in it belong to anyone but the host.

[Scrubdaddy]

the entire idea of the wardrobe is so your friends can hot swap in and out of your party, its a half baked feature not letting you have more than one in the wardrobe

[Mike Garrison]

Originally posted by Scrubdaddy:

the entire idea of the wardrobe is so your friends can hot swap in and out of your party, its a half baked feature not letting you have more than one in the wardrobe

Well, perhaps you should tell Larian that they don't understand their own game. I expect they will thank you for the revelation.

[haasi]

Originally posted by Scrubdaddy:

the entire idea of the wardrobe is so your friends can hot swap in and out of your party, its a half baked feature not letting you have more than one in the wardrobe

its half baked because it was an afterthought, or cut from rushing the launch, who knows

[Scrubdaddy]

Originally posted by haasi:

Originally posted by Scrubdaddy:

the entire idea of the wardrobe is so your friends can hot swap in and out of your party, its a half baked feature not letting you have more than one in the wardrobe

its half baked because it was an afterthought, or cut from rushing the launch, who knows

Yea it's obvious but from a dev that has been knocking it out the park patch after patch it's rather disappointing to see them leave it half baked