This recent release of the dlc and patch have completely rendered multiplayer unplayable. During the free weekend me and my friend tried to play together and the game physically couldn't handle even going through 3 turns before desyncing or mass crashing upon any and every decision from battles to diplomacy.

So even if you can get into a game with your mate. There is likely no guarantee you'll even be able to get anywhere.

Our asynchron mp game works fine so far. But we dont take control of AI.

I have a simultaneous turn game going with one other person. It... goes well now.

At the beginning though, I as the joiner had severe desyncs on the first 1-3 turns. After reconnecting those away, it hasn't had any visible desyncs up to our current break at turn 33.

We have the AI takeover on, but neither of us have dared to use it.

yes, mp is still broken. the unplayable kind of broken. with lots of desyncs and game locking itself in unsolvable situations.
revert a turn tool doesn't work as intended iether. revert many turns instead at once.
last game it reverted from turn 15 to turn 9 after a gamebreaking bug that prevented us to continue playing.

It's a bit of suprise for me, because on the singleplayer the game looks very polished. My friend said that he won't buy because of desync issues. I'll wait

Originally posted by Phantom:

It's a bit of suprise for me, because on the singleplayer the game looks very polished. My friend said that he won't buy because of desync issues. I'll wait

Honestly, id settle for peer to peer so i can play with my brother no problem. Unless the issue isnt with their servers.

Originally posted by Gargoyle:

Originally posted by Phantom:

It's a bit of suprise for me, because on the singleplayer the game looks very polished. My friend said that he won't buy because of desync issues. I'll wait

Honestly, id settle for peer to peer so i can play with my brother no problem. Unless the issue isnt with their servers.

aow planetfall mp works well. even with mods and lots of AIs, desyncs are very rare, no crash, manual battles works witohut issues, end battle screen comes fast too. revert tool does work as intended (revert only one turn instea of multiple ones.)
and it does use the same kind of servers as AOW4... the only big difference is that you cannot play your turn in planetfall if all players aren't in the game.
but p2p could work too, yeah.

invite me lets test it

Originally posted by Vampiric Squid:

invite me lets test it

are you talking to me or op?

i play MP very regularly with my family, i just got this game recently, but almost all, say 99.9% of the desync bugs ive encountered were directly related to both of us trying to do something when one was in an attack screen. once we figured out to tell the other person when they were attacking, practically all the desyncs and crashes stopped. the other 0.1% of the bugs were caused by me being on fast and him on slow for battles.