Multiplayer desync, instability

[Draeconis]

Firstly, I love this game, so this is coming from a genuine place, not just a whinge.

I do love the continued efforts (both paid and free) to expand this game, but I do not remember the last time a non-LAN game was not plagued with sync issues, drop-outs, UI glitches and various other issues.

A group of us regularly try and play a multiplayer game, and honestly we can play for hours, but these issues cropping up over and over again are really killing the enthusiasm.

I know there were efforts a while ago to improve stability, but please could I ask for a renewed effort in this area ? We can't be the only ones that experience these issues, it must come up in play-testing.

If it's an issue with too many AI races and AI/fleet movements mid/late game, perhaps the scope to add all these races on giant maps should be more limited in online multiplayer?

Perhaps investigate changing the hosting model to be Cloud-based rather than relying on a player?

Many thanks,

[RustyFMJ]

The de-sync issues are present ever since launch and have never been resolved. Can't say if an effort has ever been made to fix them but it's annoying as hell.
I like this game a lot and would love to play it in MP more often but it's nearly impossible as the de-sync issues cause all kinds of Ui issues (except for the host).
And the longer you continue after the first de-sync message the more Ui seems to get broken

[Seaghauwn]

I turned off cloud save it stopped all my instability and desync In multiplayer, also are yous playing with mods

[RustyFMJ]

I'm not playing with any mods. But i could try turning off cloud saves to see if it works

[Draeconis]

cloud sync off, never installed any mods

[Muskolini]

did you ever come to any optimistic conclusion on this? Can't play this with 5-8 friends.. it's simply unbearable right from the lobby and until we give up in anything between 5 minutes to 1 hour

[Draeconis]

we've been playing a long round of Civ 6, about to go back to this. We assumed it'd be better after the 2.6.0 update?

[Azor]

2.6.3 BETA BRANCH supposedly solves some issues with multiplayer. Haven't tried it yet however.

For the record: current release is 2.6.2; you can opt-in to the beta branch by right-clicking Stellaris on your Steam Library, then left-cliking Properties, then Betas, then selecting stellaris_testing. Remember to opt-out of the beta when that version is released by following the same proccess.

[videomike_Ultimate_Plushie]

Originally posted by John From Hiroshima:

I turned off cloud save it stopped all my instability and desync In multiplayer, also are yous playing with mods

I tried that, it didn't work for me at all.