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Multiplayer Disaster (please fix)

Posted on Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Dear Stardock,

This game is now fast approaching 9 months old and with the release of the first expansion multiplayer is a disaster .  Here are new things I noticed in tonight's attempt to play a game with 3 other people all version 1.5.  Watch my twitch stream

Lobby Issues

  • The lobby can't support more than 2 human players period.
    • When adding a third the game will not show the 2nd human (you can't see they are there).
    • Finally when you have players exit and re-enter lobby so everyone can be seen this creates other issues...
  • Now that all of you show, the game will not see the correct faction on the list.  
    • The game kept showing the other factions as their faction.
    • In one case one player was choosing custom faction kept reflecting as terran.
    • This was all live streamed.
  • Chat is horrendous.
    • Colors bleed on next line.
    • Scrolling doesn't work.
  • Lobby will lock up although this appears to happen when someone enters with corrupted or changed files...
 
We will try another live stream on Sunday evening around 8 CST if you want to watch our struggles on 1.5 because not all of the players involved are founders.  
 
1.6 multiplayer seemed to have similar issues with lobby lock up and starting one player with Terran Alliance versus my custom faction.
 
 
Thanks...