Has anyone found a way to play a save file without the host being online?

[Sterben]

Me and my nephew play this game together, but he is the host. And unless hes online to host the game, i cant load the game myself. I can host a new game, or continue a game i hosted, but i cant continue the game he hosted as me as the host. I want to make progress to our fort while he is offline.

[Lord Howe]

Playing with my brother i wanted to do the same thing.
It lets both players in the multi-player game do a save, but seems that only the host really gets anything that can be loaded.

[Sterben]

Originally posted by Lord Howe:

Playing with my brother i wanted to do the same thing.
It lets both players in the multi-player game do a save, but seems that only the host really gets anything that can be loaded.

That is correct, if you go to continue on the main menu, it will only show save files that you hosted. Not any files you saved from someone elses game that they hosted. They probably did this so you cant go into the hosts game and grief.

[Lord Howe]

Originally posted by Sterben:

Originally posted by Lord Howe:

Playing with my brother i wanted to do the same thing.
It lets both players in the multi-player game do a save, but seems that only the host really gets anything that can be loaded.

That is correct, if you go to continue on the main menu, it will only show save files that you hosted. Not any files you saved from someone elses game that they hosted. They probably did this so you cant go into the hosts game and grief.

Other games do this by making independent copies of the game for each player and allowing either player to host their copy. Changes to one copy dont change the other. That way either player can progress the game, and the other player can get an update by joining the more up-to-date one and then re-saveing.

[☣ βioClone λx-45 ☣]

You may try to talk with your friends and get their saved files so maybe you could load them and became host, however most probably that would mean your old "client-side" save will be frozen or simply corrupted in said process so you may not be allowed to load to that "modified" server you instanced.

[Sterben]

Originally posted by Lord Howe:

Originally posted by Sterben:

That is correct, if you go to continue on the main menu, it will only show save files that you hosted. Not any files you saved from someone elses game that they hosted. They probably did this so you cant go into the hosts game and grief.

Other games do this by making independent copies of the game for each player and allowing either player to host their copy. Changes to one copy dont change the other. That way either player can progress the game, and the other player can get an update by joining the more up-to-date one and then re-saveing.

That would have been a good idea, because i know me and my nephew would be fine with any changes being done in the game while the other is offline.