Multiplayer Experience So Far.....

[Kiwi]

For three days a friend and I have tried to play this game via multiplayer. For the first day we spent hours just figuring out how to get his game to even play multiplayer. The second day he found a fix and we played for about 150 turns until we had the game turns desynchronized and could not continue even via making a new lobby "this lobby code is not valid" and etc.. Third day we try to play again on the off chance it might not desync/kick us again and the same thing happens but this time at around turn 80 and also we cannot continue the game via multiplayer for the same reason as the second day. 3 days of trying to get this game to work and nothing seems to be working, first its networking issues to even connect to the multiplayer lobby that we as a consumer shouldnt even have to think about in this day and age, then its actual game breaking network issues if you manage to get a game going. anyone else?

[Madok]

I was going to ask about multiplayer but here is my answer.

[Henkka]

My friend and I have had pretty solid multiplayer experience. We are in about 170-200 turns in our first game, 15 hours of playtime and we haven't had too many issues. The first thing you need to do if you have Avast installed is to turn off Avast firewall because it blocks the multiplayer and won't let you get into a lobby (same with Nioh 2 - and probably many others).

Our issues have been the regular Tuesday night Steam server reboot that happens every Tuesday night at the same time (shuts down voice chat and regular chat/friendslist as well). Then we have had few times so that "Lobby creator has disconnected from the game" which puts us back into the menu/multiplayer lobby and the lobby creator has to re-invite the other player. Other than that, nothing else on the MP side.

Well, other than that you can't join your friend's battle or siege and help them out because the game doesn't allow multiple participants in battles; they are all 1v1 and if your friend's units happen to be close by when the battle starts and they are inside the battle area, their units are locked and unaccessible until the battle ends.

[SunShadow8]

I've played about 3 playthroughs with my bf, and haven't been able to complete one because of the desync and "internet disconnects." At the start they are few, but as turns stack up, one of us disconnects at the end of every turn. We play on the same internet that isnt having any issues, and changing the host doesn't help.

We play a lot of Endless Legend, and although we sometimes get the "desync" warning, we have never been completely disconnected or even really noticed the desync affecting things. So, I'm hoping the very frequent disconnects are a bug instead of permanent server/network error in multi-player. I really enjoy the game when we can play, but at the moment we can only play halfway through before the disconnects break it.

[Kiwi]

Originally posted by SunShadow8:

I've played about 3 playthroughs with my bf, and haven't been able to complete one because of the desync and "internet disconnects." At the start they are few, but as turns stack up, one of us disconnects at the end of every turn. We play on the same internet that isnt having any issues, and changing the host doesn't help.

We play a lot of Endless Legend, and although we sometimes get the "desync" warning, we have never been completely disconnected or even really noticed the desync affecting things. So, I'm hoping the very frequent disconnects are a bug instead of permanent server/network error in multi-player. I really enjoy the game when we can play, but at the moment we can only play halfway through before the disconnects break it.

hopefully

[RogerKint]

I keep getting forcibly kicked out, over and over, of games in the lobby that aren't full. Does this happen to anyone else? I'm not saying or doing anything, they just see me join and kick me out within seconds If the slots are open, I don't understand who or what they could be waiting for each time. I can't get a single multiplayer game to start

[knighttemplar1960]

When I play multiplayer its just my wife and I. When you start a lobby the default allows anyone to join and when the game had more players there were several times that before I could switch to friends only someone had joined the lobby and I had to kick them to get to friends only. The solution to that would be for the default setting to be none and then allow you to select what you want from the other options only opening your game to everyone if that is what you want to do instead of opening it to everyone when the lobby forms.

The devs clearly expected their game to be more popular and multiplayer friendly than it is.