Multiplayer broken. Game crashes or session drops. - RESOLVED!!

[KRT™Anarki]

Hopefully someone will help me out. Trying to start my first DnD adventure in multiplayer but I can't get it working. I can see my friends session. I join, he provides me a slot but I can't hit ready. Game crashes to desktop or sessions drops from multiplayer back to lobby. Both on Win10, same version of game.

Any ideas or I'll be asking for a refund which I don't want to do.

Thanks

[Action_Boo]

There are lots of things you *could* try, but none worked for us. Look at the troubleshooting section, I opened a thread there that lists everything you can try. Some options are kinda ridiculous to be honest, such as port forwarding or starting a network using hamachi.

If you want my two cents: the devs do not seem to care (although we even opened a support ticket.) Thus, I would refund and get your friends to play Divinity: Original Sin 2 instead. It is a fantastic game, especially in multiplayer. Also, Larian, the studio that made it, develops Baldur's Gate 3.

It kinda irks me to recommend this, as the BG games are so amazing in multiplayer. But this "Definitive" Edition is just a disservice to them, as for lots and lots of people the multiplayer is just not working. In the year 2020, I might add...

[KRT™Anarki]

Owch, not what I was expecting to hear. I'll ask Steam for a refund then. What a waste of time.

Thanks

[Action_Boo]

Really get your friend to play D:OS2 though, if he hasn't already. If he likes BG, he will love that, too. And since there is only two of you, you could even play the first part, which is also a great game in its own right. Can't recommend enough! :D

[KRT™Anarki]

How can they sell a game advertising 'Multiplayer' if Multiplayer doesnt work?

I havent played a DnD game before so was hoping to start from point 1 and work my way through :(

[Action_Boo]

I mean, it also works for a lot of people. It seems kind of random. For many people at least some combination of the measures I present in the other thread seems to do the trick. Compared to other games, though, I really don't know how they can screw up this badly.

You'd be doing the right thing to get into the games with a friend btw. DnD systems are not *that* intuitive, especially in these games. The first Baldur's Gate can be really hard for noobs. Having someone who knows what they are doing can help out a lot.

[KRT™Anarki]

Yes, my friends knows it inside out, hence why I bought the first game so we can walkthrough together. I rolled a 93 Elf Archer as my first char but I guess thats a waste as I cant use him :(

[Action_Boo]

Completely know the feeling man. I started playing it with my brother and we were super stoked about it. Then it just stops working. Welcome to modern gaming, I guess. :P

[Jaxom]

Originally posted by Anarki:

How can they sell a game advertising 'Multiplayer' if Multiplayer doesnt work?

I havent played a DnD game before so was hoping to start from point 1 and work my way through :(

I've played through BG1 and BG2 many many times with a group and have not had a whole lot of issues.

I agree with the DoS2 rec though, that game is awesome. I wouldn't give up on BG though it to is awesome.

[Action_Boo]

@Jaxom: The problem is, that there is a subset of players who just cannot get the multiplayer to work, no matter what. For example, we are not clueless when it comes to this stuff, and we tried to fix the multiplayer for over 5 hours; adding to that, it even stopped working after it was fine during the first session. We just could not fix it, even digging deep and looking into every fix the internet has to offer. So the game is just unplayable, and we kinda have to give up on it, even though we don't want to. I'm glad that it works for you, but this is not the situation for everyone.

[KRT™Anarki]

Hamachi... it worked and I can finally play MP BG, 2 and SoD :)

Installed Hamachi, created a network... it gave me an IP address at the top... opened and hosted MP game. Gave my friend the IP address from Hamachi and then used used Connect Direct and used the IP address I gave him and it worked.

RESOLVED!!!