Multiplayer no longer working.

[Gregxcore]

Ever since this patch was released my friends aren't able to see my hosted games any longer. I also cant invite friends through the steam tab, what the hell is going on?

[Madguy]

There is apparently a limit of 100 games that are able to be displayed at once with the Gog Galaxy matchmaking system I'm using. The game got promoted pretty heavily by Steam over the weekend, so some games might not be appearing. Under normal circumstances, there are fewer than 100 games going on. So best to either wait it out or try a few times and eventually it should appear.

I've pinged my contacts at Gog to see if there is a solution for this, I haven't been able to do anything about it on my end.

[Porkish]

Originally posted by Madguy:

There is apparently a limit of 100 games that are able to be displayed at once with the Gog Galaxy matchmaking system I'm using. The game got promoted pretty heavily by Steam over the weekend, so some games might not be appearing. Under normal circumstances, there are fewer than 100 games going on. So best to either wait it out or try a few times and eventually it should appear.

I've pinged my contacts at Gog to see if there is a solution for this, I haven't been able to do anything about it on my end.

Any chance you can add a way to manually enter internet game lobbies in the meantime?

[Gregxcore]

Thank you madguy for the response.

[VinTJ]

Originally posted by Porkish Pig:

Any chance you can add a way to manually enter internet game lobbies in the meantime?

What do you mean by this? If you're having trouble finding your friend's internet lobby on the list of online games? (since we currently don't have a "search" feature for titles or host name that might need to be implemented sometime in the future but whatever) If so, well, actually, you can invite steam friends.

of course, i'm pretty sure you can't invite by "right clicking" your friend's steam profile and then looking for the "invite to game" button anymore, and i'm not sure if it was ever an available option.

What you can do is, type "/invite" in the in-game chat (of course, after you've created the online game/ lobby. then you'll be given a list of steam friends currently online, each assigned a number, you can then use "/invite _" (insert number in blank) to invite them. Or "/invite (name here)".

there's other commands too, all of them listed if you type /help.

[Porkish]

Originally posted by VinTJ:

Originally posted by Porkish Pig:

Any chance you can add a way to manually enter internet game lobbies in the meantime?

What do you mean by this? If you're having trouble finding your friend's internet lobby on the list of online games? (since we currently don't have a "search" feature for titles or host name that might need to be implemented sometime in the future but whatever) If so, well, actually, you can invite steam friends.

of course, i'm pretty sure you can't invite by "right clicking" your friend's steam profile and then looking for the "invite to game" button anymore, and i'm not sure if it was ever an available option.

What you can do is, type "/invite" in the in-game chat (of course, after you've created the online game/ lobby. then you'll be given a list of steam friends currently online, each assigned a number, you can then use "/invite _" (insert number in blank) to invite them. Or "/invite (name here)".

there's other commands too, all of them listed if you type /help.

I have not been able to use either Steam or in-game invites in some time. It seems that /invite has some trouble with nicknamed friends, and Steam's invite system looks to be affected by this 100 max active lobby bug.

What I mean by manual lobby entry is exactly how it sounds, manually providing a lobby and password to join. I see this working similar to how Terraria handles it. You can join via Steam or manually provide the server IP, port, and password.

Even after this issue has been resolved, I could see manual lobby entry as a potential method of connecting to frequently joined lobbies; displaying recently used lobbies similar to Terraria's frequently joined servers.

[Madguy]

The next hotfix will include the option to find a game by game/host name. I also spoke with the people at GOG, and they will be increasing the limitations on number of games displayed to 250.

[luckz]

Either inviting people used to be easier or your game is too popular now

There's also still the bug that the MP host becomes invisible to the client(s), once in a while

[lowry. Butch the Slabbed Chest]

It would be really neat if we could join a specific ip, or to have a priority friends list thing to be able to join our friends. The /join command does nothing for my friend and I, both ways.