Playing with mods, online with friends taking forever to "install"

[FrozenBreath]

A few buddies of mine got this game so we could play together, well we discovered mods we messed around and got a few, and we thought if we all subscribed to the mods there wouldnt be any problems connecting, well even with having all the same subscriptions to all the exact same mods in the exact order, when starting a game it says "installing" for a member in our group, even though he has everything downloaded, and checked, it still is installing something and these take anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours just to finish, is there any way to skip this process and just connect faster with the mods we are all using?? I want to play this game but I don't like playing it alone, and adding mods just makes it so much more fun, but when you have to wait for a few hours to get a session going, it just kills the mood.

[Skumbag]

It seems buggy recently, try using only a handful of mods

[FrozenBreath]

Originally posted by Skumbag420:

It seems buggy recently, try using only a handful of mods

Is this only just recently, because even before when we were running like 5 mods it would still be doing the exact same thing as it is doing now, it doesn't seem like a size issue since we all have good computers that can run it all very easilly

[Skumbag]

There are certain mods that bug out multiplayer, the most prominent one being Free Pet Pal (Just use Innate Talents instead)

If you make a collection, ensure you all have the same load order and mods enabled, without other mods installed, try this

Unsub from all mods
Delete all files in documents/LarianStudios/DivinityOriginalSin2Definitive/mods

Have your friends do the same, make a collection have them use "Sub to all" so that you have the same load order in-game and you should just load in right away, we used 32 mods and it worked that way (Just can't continue a playthrough in progress, get addon load failed messages)

Also make sure they activate all the mods, prior to joining you.

[FrozenBreath]

Originally posted by Skumbag420:

There are certain mods that bug out multiplayer, the most prominent one being Free Pet Pal (Just use Innate Talents instead)

If you make a collection, ensure you all have the same load order and mods enabled, without other mods installed, try this

Unsub from all mods
Delete all files in documents/LarianStudios/DivinityOriginalSin2Definitive/mods

Have your friends do the same, make a collection have them use "Sub to all" so that you have the same load order in-game and you should just load in right away, we used 32 mods and it worked that way (Just can't continue a playthrough in progress, get addon load failed messages)

Also make sure they activate all the mods, prior to joining you.

Thank you for the detailed response i will give these a shot then let you know if it worked!

[Reidlos]

any luck? im going to try this too having same issue :( hear it might be heleane class mods which is a must for this so hopping this works.

Extreme work around for some reason is to cut patch_2.pak from the data folder, start game, then exit. then put it back. it worked once atleast. hope this work

[Reidlos]

bumpin

[Divinister]

We'tried every single method, even with fresh installed game without any mod we got the bug. It is random, sometimes one of the players can connect without downloading any patch file, sometimes not. Larian needs to fix this ASAP.

[no brains]

how i fixed this problem (when steam + gog crossplay)

1. go to "my documents\larian studios\divinity original sin 2 definitive edition\mods
2. pack this folder through 7zip or other archiver and send to your friends
3. make friends unpack this folder into same path and enable mods in game

[FrozenBreath]

So newer update, I tried the collections idea, and they got 30 out of my 33 so after installing that through the loading screen taking an hour or so for both of my other friends, then after connecting we played for a bit until the next day, one person connected right away while the other said "installing" even though we didnt change anything or update anything at all???? This installation took about 35 minutes to finish, I just dont know what is going on

[Divinister]

It is a game bug, it has started happening after Dec 5th patch. I've reported it to Larian Studios and they will give an update on this soon.
I've tried every single method I've found and there is no fix. It is random. Some players connect without issues and others don't.

We have to wait guys.

[Reidlos]

I also submitted it, giving examples, threads and such, hopefully will be fixed

[Mulcarn]

They still havn't fixed these bugs...

[Raze_Larian]

Unfortunately, so far this issue has not be reproducible, and it is not apparent from the networking code what could be triggering the transfer of the patch pak files.

[Divinister]

Hm, after an update that I don't recall exactly which was, this bug was solved (at least on my pc). Now people can't connect without any problem.