Multiplayer Campaign With Yourself

[Cal Paquette]

So, something I've been trying to accomplish is setting up two instances of TW: Warhammer and playing a head-to-head campaign, with myself, so I don't get burned out on one faction versus the other.

There's obviously some roadblocks in the way, so I was hoping someone could tell me if there's ways around them.

My first obstacle is that I need to invite a friend, presumably a friend on steam. Is there a way to invite myself?

[Ruinae Retroque Rursus]

It is definitely possible to run two instances of WH2TW on the same PC. You need a special bit of software to do it, but it's possible. From there, it's just a matter of hosting the lobby as The Pretender on one instance of WH2 and joining the lobby as The Pretender on the other instance of WH2.

You do, however, need a PC twice as chunky as it is quite literally running twice what WH2 would normally use

I am trying to dig up a link but so far I haven't found anything. :/

[Ruinae Retroque Rursus]

Some digging later, I've found references to Sandboxie, which should allow you to run multiple instances of most things, which hopefully includes WH2.

https://www.sandboxie.com/

I am sure I remember something of this ilk but cannot find it. :/

[Cal Paquette]

I'll give that a try and come back to report my results!

[cb4n28]

CA should just add hotseat local multiplayer that. Obviously only one person can play in battle (other would have to be AI controlled) but hotseat would be lots of fun

[Cal Paquette]

I f*cking did it! There's a minor hickup; if you launch two steam clients from the same machine, one will register as offline, meaning that you can't make it an online game. However, you can instead make it a LAN game and then it will work like a charm! I'll continue testing this solution and get back to you again!

[Cal Paquette]

Alright, so, several observations; the sandboxed game has some trouble staying in the right monitor (I have dual setup, for reference). Since I have to confirm most decisions between the two clients, I have to constantly swap back and forth. So, it's best to use the sandboxed instance at the highest fidelity, I've found, with the unsandboxed instance at the lowest fidelity, so you can move the low fidelity version to the side so you can swap between them easily. It's possible Sandboxie tries to minimize it's instance whenever you switch to another screen? If so, that's a pain.

Furthermore, forget playing on Legendary difficulty, since it doesn't allow saving in case you need to emergency exit one of the two clients because your system can't handle it anymore.

I think this is a possible solution, but I would want to have two separated machines instead of trying to run both on the same machine. But I didn't need a separate steam for both; it worked perfectly fine if you're playing on LAN.

I know now that it at least works in theory, so my curiosity has finally been satisfied. I really do want this to just be possible from one computer, though. So, maybe I'll eventually do something with this, just to show to Creative Assembly I'm will to deal with all of these pains to play the game this way so that they maybe put a hotseat back in.

Sidenote; I never realized that playing the Court of Lybaras in the Eye of the Vortex campaign mode locked you out of multiplayer with anyone except Tomb King factions because their objectives are completely different. I know that it isn't balanced, but it'd be fun, I think?

I am pleasantly surprised to see that I can still play Court of Lybaras and play Co-Op in Mortal Empires. My RP justification is that the Court of Lybaras is secretly funding the expedition through their Arabyan agents without Markus knowing about it, to buy the Huntsman's hunting trophies for use by the necrotects. And if they ever fight alongside? Stacking all the ranged fire bonuses!

[Saturas am Mic]

Hi, maybe someone sees this after these years. Can someone explain to me how I can play LAN? I have two instances running via Sandbox, but in local network theres I can't find my opened lobby