So is multiplayer drop-in not a thing anymore?

[Slimurgical (Stormy)]

I've joined a friend mid-game in the past and had friends join mid-game before as well and both me and them could pick a survivor and play even during a teleporter event, but now I can't even do so period when I join a game in progress.

[Talithmara]

I've never been able to have working drop-in mid-game without mods specifically to facilitate it.

Sounds like your mods broke in the update.

[Slimurgical (Stormy)]

I don't and have never used mods.

[Ninja Zyborg]

Drop-in was never a thing in vanilla. sounds like the host had the drop-in mod. (which, like every other mod, is currently broken)

[Someguyinhere]

Originally posted by Ninja Zyborg:

Drop-in was never a thing in vanilla. sounds like the host had the drop-in mod. (which, like every other mod, is currently broken)

I miss Miner. And, Enforcer. And, Nemesis Enforcer. And, Goku. And, Paladin.

:(

[Slimurgical (Stormy)]

Drop-in should be in vanilla, makes no sense not to really.

[Kolo...]

Originally posted by StormyStrife:

Drop-in should be in vanilla, makes no sense not to really.

Drop-in was never a thing in vanilla and also I would argue, what's the point in joining mid-game? You are 100% only gonna get bodied as you do not have any items if they are beyond the 2nd or so map.

[Slimurgical (Stormy)]

What's the point? To join the lobby and have something to do before the run ends, and you're not going to get bodied on the 3rd map if you know how to move to avoid most enemy attacks at any speed on that level with no items You're really overestimating the power of the items, which you're really only guaranteed to get 2 green items by map 3, and if you're on monsoon, you'll probly only have maybe 5 white items by that point, of which without artifacts you have no reason to believe will be items that are entirely useful for your character.
You could be artificer and get a syringe, monster tooth, fresh meat, you may get glasses, and a repulsor, or you could get a medkit and cautious slug.

Aside from getting the skins though, I don't play Monsoon much because it's not my idea of fun to get 1-shot by blazing enemies who spawned right behind me whne I'm at at full health and it's 2 and a half minutes into the game, all because I stood still for literally 1 microsecond and dared not to keep jumping like a pornstar.
Getting hit by blazing enemies once is a literal death sentence without healing items or levels on Monsoon on most characters with low hp. But on medium difficulty it only halves my hp and isn't a guaranteed death.

[B〄F Altonator]

The way drop in works in this game is that you have to be present on the game start. Then you can leave and rejoin later.
It is possible but only for those that were there from the begining.

[Slimurgical (Stormy)]

I was in a game just last night and I disconnected thanks to the game's netcode messing up for no reason on level transition. I quit the game because it was being glitchy and I tried rejoining, which caused it to freeze on a black screen but not stop responding and then rejoined the game after restarting the game, and I was forced to spectate and watch the run end because I was the strongest character. The game lobby should just allow us to join mid-game and if we had played previously, we should naturally get the items we had because the game should manage that information that all lobby members would have a copy of said information during said run.

[pyr0kid]

its a shame the 24/7 pyre servers went down with the update, they had drop in and like a 10 person cap, it was lovely.