Is anyone actually able to play online with friends? (Out of Sync)

[Koekebakker]

I read some patch notes saying they fixed a bunch of out of sync errors but they still keep happening over and over. Every time it starts at around turn 25 and we have to quit playing because we get stuck in the loop. How are you guys avoiding this??

[Star Paladin]

We tried to play a couple days ago; with a friend that came over and used my second computer. We were able to play, for about 4 hours, but desynced about a dozen times. Luckily we were able to reload very quickly every time. But one time, while I was playing out a very large, long battle (and my friend was not in the room), it desynced, and I had to replay the ENTIRE battle again. (how does something desync when the other player is not even touching his computer for 5 minutes)?

[Avengernaut]

Nope. My friends and I have been waiting for them to fix the multiplayer since release...

[Malaficus Shaikan]

We would but 1 guy keeps forgetting to do his turn.

[Terrkas]

Originally posted by Star Paladin:

We tried to play a couple days ago; with a friend that came over and used my second computer. We were able to play, for about 4 hours, but desynced about a dozen times. Luckily we were able to reload very quickly every time. But one time, while I was playing out a very large, long battle (and my friend was not in the room), it desynced, and I had to replay the ENTIRE battle again. (how does something desync when the other player is not even touching his computer for 5 minutes)?

For long battles it helps if the other player exits the game. I am also not sure how desyncs work here. Maybe the other player is the host and some packages were lost?

However, it is way better than before. When I tried my first multiplayer with friends it would desync in EVERY battle and sometimes force to restart the whole turn.

[Senja]

Got the same problem within WLAN with my hubbie. We are out of Sync after every 2-3 turns and nearly in each self played combat.

[Urinietszche]

Current version of the game. Played with my friend a game. 2 players and 7 bots.

~85 turns I won through magic victory, total desync count was like 4-5.
All desyncs were fixed by instant reload.

Do you spectate each other's battles when fighting AI? I remember it caused alot of desync for us so we disabled it ever since.

[Malaficus Shaikan]

Originally posted by plant mines:

Do you spectate each other's battles when fighting AI? I remember it caused alot of desync for us so we disabled it ever since.

This.
I think i remember a dev saying they are trying to find out what causes it.
They are aware of it just not what causes the problem.

[Star Paladin]

What a paradox, because the ONLY way we are going to play MP is if we can view everyone's battles. Otherwise we are back to reading a book during other player's turns.

[Terrkas]

Originally posted by Star Paladin:

What a paradox, because the ONLY way we are going to play MP is if we can view everyone's battles. Otherwise we are back to reading a book during other player's turns.

We also have an option to switch between different online games on the top-right corner. So you could swap to another game, while the friend battles.

I just wish it would allow to hop between online and singleplayer aswell. Then I could finish my storyrealm, while my friend does his big battle.

[Koekebakker]

Originally posted by plant mines:

Current version of the game. Played with my friend a game. 2 players and 7 bots.

~85 turns I won through magic victory, total desync count was like 4-5.
All desyncs were fixed by instant reload.

Do you spectate each other's battles when fighting AI? I remember it caused alot of desync for us so we disabled it ever since.

We have the spectating on just for Player battles but the last time we tried the desync happened before we did even a single manual battle. I am willing to work around it, there seems to be no patterns to the desync happening.

Kinda feel bad about my friends buying the DLC after reading the patch notes about them fixing this Lol

[Vvv]

From what i remember it was fixed to some extent. So it should be playable. It desyncs few times but i was coming back quickly. And only on rare occasions did she have to restart her PC...

But also her PC was not that great so it might be something to consider. My PC is quite strong and I almost never had problems when playing coop.

[KingJohnVI]

Try opting into the beta, most de-syncs seem to be fixed there.