4-player multiplayer. ( Campaign )

[John_Shi]

Why still do not add multiplayer for 4 players. Sometimes you really want to play with friends in four. Dear developers, it’s enough to produce small DLS. Go to the workshop and see what people are missing! And make the multiplayer for 4 players already, at least as a paid DLS, we will buy it anyway)
May the Emperor show you the right path! )

[Andrewbh2003]

you can

multiplayer battles>invite up to 8 players

[BolzenHolz]

I think he means the campaign, not the battles.

[drake.mouth]

CAMPAIGN plz let 4 player but it would take YEARS per turn

[Dr_Kira]

Heroes might and magic 3 had 8 player turn based strategy over a decade ago... it was amazing, nobody forces you to play with more people and wait longer either :D

[BolzenHolz]

Sometimes it seems that games had in the past more "features" (things like splittscreen or hot seat) than nowaday titles.

Honestly, a multiplayer campaign with more than 2 players would be interesting. On the other hand, you would have HORRIBLE long wait times (my pal complained several times now that my turns seems endless because i fight every battle manually, while he just autoresolve).

[Tricks]

I'm going to guess that the 2-player limit is something to do with the netcode. In the past when playing TW multiplayer campaigns, even with just 2 players we had some pretty bad sync issues. I can only assume sync issues would become even more common with the game accounting for 4 players.

[PureH]

Not possible really. Would require way to much and wouldn't really be enjoyable.

[John_Shi]

It seems to me that everything is possible, just the developers do not want to complicate their lives. At the expense of long companies, yes, but I'm not in a hurry. Come after work and play together with your friends for an hour the other I do not need more. I have 4-5 friends playing and we all would like to play a company, it would be very cool especially to stop the invasion of chaos 10 X
So I'm not even against a paid DLC on this topic)

[Greg]

Originally posted by PureH:

Not possible really. Would require way to much and wouldn't really be enjoyable.

Found the cucklord

[James Howlette]

Originally posted by PureH:

Not possible really. Would require way to much and wouldn't really be enjoyable.

Not possible? Maybe. No clue how engrained into the engine and net code the 2 player cap on campaigns is. Best case, they may add it in for WH3, but I do doubt that it's something as easy as just throwing together a DLC.

Not enjoyable? That is entirely subjective. Even if you don't have more people you'd want to co-op with, how would other people having the option to play with more friends detriment you at all?

[PureH]

Originally posted by James Howlette:

Originally posted by PureH:

Not possible really. Would require way to much and wouldn't really be enjoyable.

Not possible? Maybe. No clue how engrained into the engine and net code the 2 player cap on campaigns is. Best case, they may add it in for WH3, but I do doubt that it's something as easy as just throwing together a DLC.

Not enjoyable? That is entirely subjective. Even if you don't have more people you'd want to co-op with, how would other people having the option to play with more friends detriment you at all?

I imagine adding more players would really mess with the engine due to the fact that the camppaign mechanics aren't designed really with more than 1 player inmind in all honesty.

And yes it would not be enjoyable... imagine Having Civ without simul turns, every single war, and battle takes 10-15 minutes, even more for the bigger ones and you are merely a spectator, you could have a very long wait between turns, etc etc. that is not fun... People complain about turn times already being to big for mortal empires, and thats without having to see every battle the AI takes part in. And Simul turns aren't really an option either...

[Greg]

Originally posted by PureH:

Originally posted by James Howlette:

Not possible? Maybe. No clue how engrained into the engine and net code the 2 player cap on campaigns is. Best case, they may add it in for WH3, but I do doubt that it's something as easy as just throwing together a DLC.

Not enjoyable? That is entirely subjective. Even if you don't have more people you'd want to co-op with, how would other people having the option to play with more friends detriment you at all?

I imagine adding more players would really mess with the engine due to the fact that the camppaign mechanics aren't designed really with more than 1 player inmind in all honesty.

And yes it would not be enjoyable... imagine Having Civ without simul turns, every single war, and battle takes 10-15 minutes, even more for the bigger ones and you are merely a spectator, you could have a very long wait between turns, etc etc. that is not fun... People complain about turn times already being to big for mortal empires, and thats without having to see every battle the AI takes part in. And Simul turns aren't really an option either...

So all of us with friends should not be allowed to play with each other because you think it won't be enjoyable.

[Dr_Kira]

Anyone complaining about it not being playable is wrong for the simple fact it was donw over a decade ago lol. The only thing I agree on as to why this is not done is :

1 : Maybe it takes lots of work i dunno im no programmer and they judge it's not worth it.
2 : maybe it causes issues with the coding making it not possilbe ? I would not know, might and magic seemed more simple (again im no programmer)
if it ain't a tech limitation or a time/money investment that would not be worth for CA the argument is pretty much not valid.

[PureH]

Originally posted by Greg:

Originally posted by PureH:

I imagine adding more players would really mess with the engine due to the fact that the camppaign mechanics aren't designed really with more than 1 player inmind in all honesty.

And yes it would not be enjoyable... imagine Having Civ without simul turns, every single war, and battle takes 10-15 minutes, even more for the bigger ones and you are merely a spectator, you could have a very long wait between turns, etc etc. that is not fun... People complain about turn times already being to big for mortal empires, and thats without having to see every battle the AI takes part in. And Simul turns aren't really an option either...

So all of us with friends should not be allowed to play with each other because you think it won't be enjoyable.

If you want to put yourself through an incredibly boring experience be my guest. But they wont add it in because they know it will boring and isn't worth the time/money.