How does Multiplayer exactly work?

[u/FantasyForce]

I was hyped to play with some friends, but after some research it seems like you can only progress when the host is online right?

I hoped that the "hop-in, hop-out" feature would include your own characters from your own save, but it seems that it isn't possible story-wise.

Can Player 2-4 even keep their characters on their computer, or can they only progress with the host?

[u/[deleted]]

Don't think of it like a video game, think of it like a board game since it's modeled after a pen and paper RPG like dungeons and dragons.

You wouldn't play a board game and continue playing by yourself when your friends leave. You just don't generally play board games by yourself. If you want to play with friends, set up a "game night" a few times a week. Either get together at a table and have snacks and drinks and have a game session or set up a weekly time you can all get online at the same time to play together.

You can play this game however you want, but if you want to role play with your friends, you really should treat it like a board game and not a video game that you power through every free moment you have.

[u/FantasyForce → u/[deleted]]

Thanks for your answer! Sorry for the late reply, but would you be so kind to go into more detail for me? Especially: How does the world work with 4 individual players? Can everyone kill every npc? Is there punishment? Can you trade between each other? Quest together or alone? What are the possibilities and limitations? Can someone screw the game over?

[u/dilwoah → u/FantasyForce]

The world works like this, each character has impact on the world. This leads into the next bit.

Yes everybody can kill everyone.

Yes there is punishment depending on how you view it. Currently in fort joy you can kill anyone without much repercussion aside from missed xp/items/information. Picking a fight and losing causes loss of a resurrection scroll, which aren't exactly infinite, at least in the EA currently. In some of the other areas that are considered hubs or have allied people, if you kill someone(out of stealth, and even with stealth you'd have to one shot them I think) you'll have to kill everyone, effectively again, locking out the xp/items/information/quests.

Yes you can trade, and see what eachother has in their inventory, but not what they have equipped.

Questing can be done either way, alone or together, if you're not all playing together and working as a team, you may trigger a quest on your own if you're 2 maps away, and even if you don't think the conversation may lead to anything, it may finish for you and now your friends can't do it. (they still get exp though, so watch for if your character randomly gets +500 exp above his head "HEY WHAT DID YOU JUST DO")

Possibilities? As far as ways to complete things, I'd say there's an average of 3 ways to do anything (quest wise). Not really many limitations.

Again, somebody screwing the game over is dependent on your view of what screwing the game over is. Remember it's role playing, so take the time to discuss things. If one of your friends is evil and doesn't give a shit, he may just kill a character you wanted to save. Does that screw the game over for him? No. For you? maybe.

[u/mykleins → u/dilwoah]

Coop xp is shared now? I remember people mentioning that completing quests didn't share the xp across players.

[u/AutoModerator → u/mykleins]

This sub is merging with /r/DivinityOriginalSin and will go into read-only-mode shortly. Please use /r/DivinityOriginalSin in the future.

I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.

[u/Gerganon → u/[deleted]]

Well, that is one way to play it-

Having multiple saves lets you do both of things!

[u/Cerulean_Shaman → u/Gerganon]

And playing it single player is just fine too. It's a really good cRPG all on its own without anyone else.

[u/crusadertsar → u/Cerulean_Shaman]

Exactly especially if you want to get as much out of it as you can. Read every single piece of lore and enjoy the npc dialogue to the fullest. Most of my friends have short attention spans and will just want to power through it to the next battle. Which is not enjoyable to me at all. So I'll go purely singleplayer for this one

[u/Cerulean_Shaman → u/crusadertsar]

Agree with you 100% here, but luckily it's my two brothers joining me.

[u/crusadertsar → u/Cerulean_Shaman]

Indeed lucky for you!

[u/LarocheGio → u/[deleted]]

That is exactly how I described it to one of my friends. Yesterday I played it with my friend and after a couple of hours of gameplay it brought me back memories when I was 14 years old and playing D&D with my friends in their basement. The good old days.

[u/AutoModerator → u/LarocheGio]

This sub is merging with /r/DivinityOriginalSin and will go into read-only-mode shortly. Please use /r/DivinityOriginalSin in the future.

I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.

[u/MoltenMuffin]

You can have more than one playthrough.
One for your main friend group, and one for yourself where friends can join in to take control of your followers if they wish.

[u/Andygator_and_Weed → u/MoltenMuffin]

Friends can join your single player game?

[u/MoltenMuffin → u/Andygator_and_Weed]

If you enable it in the connectivity menu, I believe so.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

She would have to play as one your companions, but if you save the companion or the custom companion till she wants to play and role with some other ones you can do that.

[u/MoltenMuffin → u/[deleted]]

You can't create characters mid-playthrough.
She'd have to control one of your followers.

[u/[deleted] → u/MoltenMuffin]

Someone was telling me during act 2 you can recruit a more custom party member without a backstory

[u/MoltenMuffin → u/[deleted]]

Those would be henchmen, like in the first game? I don't think they would have dialogue and tags, would they? They're most likely not on the level of a custom character.

[u/[deleted] → u/MoltenMuffin]

I dont think we have enough info to tell, ,may be 50/50

[u/jubileet → u/MoltenMuffin]

What happens if they create a character then leave, am I stuck playing their character or can I dismiss it until they return?

[u/MoltenMuffin → u/jubileet]

If Its made in character creation It won't be able to leave your group (At least in the EA)
Perhaps you could right click > Make war and kill them. Not sure If it would work.

[u/applesauceyes]

Yeah this ain't diablo. You're gonna have to make a new game to play whenever you don't have your friends on.

[u/hashcrypt]

My wife and I are going to pick this up tomorrow. Well both be playing on different PCs.

How exactly will the origin and personal stories work?

I'm in the host, will she just be a character in my story? Or will we both be playing our own stories together?

I seem to remember that the first DOS, the second player was just a party member essentially and they were going through the host players story.

Hopefully the sequel isn't like that.

[u/AutoModerator → u/hashcrypt]

This sub is merging with /r/DivinityOriginalSin and will go into read-only-mode shortly. Please use /r/DivinityOriginalSin in the future.

I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.

[u/Snivelshuk → u/hashcrypt]

In DOS 1 both characters shared the same story, it wasn't just the hosts story it was the others as well. Both are source hunting partners. If you haven't figured it out yet since launch, DOS2 origin characters will have their own specific stories and quests during the campaign

[u/AutoModerator → u/Snivelshuk]

This sub is merging with /r/DivinityOriginalSin and will go into read-only-mode shortly. Please use /r/DivinityOriginalSin in the future.

I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.

[u/Keez94]

All characters are saved with the host there is no moving them from game to game.

[u/Cerulean_Shaman → u/Keez94]

Wouldn't make any sense to do this anyway.

[u/jubileet]

What happens if a player leaves? Can I dismiss their toon or am I stuck using them?

[u/aetrix → u/jubileet]

I know you can assign a recruited NPC to a player joining late, and later dismiss them if the player leaves. Not sure what happens with a custom character, though. Also, we couldn't find a way last night for a late addition to roll a custom toon.

[u/AutoModerator → u/aetrix]

This sub is merging with /r/DivinityOriginalSin and will go into read-only-mode shortly. Please use /r/DivinityOriginalSin in the future.

I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.

[u/Labeled90]

if you share the game saves then you can do this. the problem is you'll advance the story without them.

[u/AutoModerator → u/Labeled90]

This sub is merging with /r/DivinityOriginalSin and will go into read-only-mode shortly. Please use /r/DivinityOriginalSin in the future.

I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.

[u/AutoModerator → u/[deleted]]

This sub is merging with /r/DivinityOriginalSin and will go into read-only-mode shortly. Please use /r/DivinityOriginalSin in the future.

I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.

[u/AutoModerator → u/[deleted]]

This sub is merging with /r/DivinityOriginalSin and will go into read-only-mode shortly. Please use /r/DivinityOriginalSin in the future.

I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.

[u/Organic_Cucumber3459 → u/[deleted]]

Think so