Save multiplayer sessions

[Qualle]

Hey community,

I bought Gremlins Inc yesterday and started to play a session with my friends, but unfortunatly we were not able to find a saving button. Is there any way to save a match and continue it later on? Even searching on Google brought no result. Thanks for your help :)

[Dr. John Snow]

There are saved games for single-player sessions, but not for multiplayer. Sorry about that.

[Fulano]

So is there no protection against disconnects? If it disconnects your game is lost?

[Dr. John Snow]

Originally posted by Fulano:

So is there no protection against disconnects? If it disconnects your game is lost?

When a user is disconnected from a multiplayer session, that user can rejoin when the connection is restored - as long as the session is still in progress. Meanwhile an AI bot takes over that character.

[Fulano]

Our first game the hosting player got disconnected, the client seemed to be trying to re-connect, but with the host gone it seemed there was nothing we could do? Or could the host still re-join? We didn't see the game on the list, but didn't look long.

[Dr. John Snow]

Originally posted by Fulano:

Our first game the hosting player got disconnected, the client seemed to be trying to re-connect, but with the host gone it seemed there was nothing we could do? Or could the host still re-join? We didn't see the game on the list, but didn't look long.

Gremlins, Inc. hosts all multiplayer sessions on the server (Amsterdam or Singapore), so there’s no “hosting player” per se.

If you remember (or can look up from your Past Sessions) the time, including the time zone, of the session and the server, we can look into that.

The only way for a multiplayer session to “disappear” is when all human players are disconnected at once. That is a pretty rare thing.

The only thing I can recall is a DDoS attack on the Amsterdam cluster that we had this past week one of the days, for a few hours it was fairly bad. But this sort of thing happens once a year or so (thank god).

[Fulano]

Thanks! Thanks helpful information.

We've got somewhat spotty internet too that sometimes gets rather unstable.
I was playing with my wife, so we were both on the same internet connection. Her's just gave a disconnected error, mine got stuck at the "taking steps to re-connect". From what you said, I'd guess we just got an internet hiccup that disconnected both of us.

The session was about 11:00 pm last night, from what I can tell, the past played list ends at about 2 am so it's already dropped off that list. It was in the Mountain Time Zone, hosted by Ladi Gate if that helps, 2 vs 2 game.

That being said though... I still would love to see a multi-player auto-save feature for backup, and for life events when sometimes I just have to stop.