Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Bug: Multiplayer - Cant give npc control to other

Dear all,

in multiplayer-mode the host controls all chars but the one char created by the other player. In Menu I can give NPC control to the other player. But this is not working. The other player can't control the NPC as I can. There is no action bar and no way to steer the movement.

Kind regards,
Chip

Playing a LAN game, two of us made new characters. When we were at 4 with two NPCs added, I could move the NPCs, assign them either to the host or the player that joined.

The bug I found was Hosting a saved game with two PCs and 2 NPCs, and wanting to assign one of the NPCs to a third player. Loading a saved game, the lobby was at 1/2. After one player joined, the lobby told them it was a 2/2 game, and there was no room. We tried with one PC and one NPC added, with two free slots. In the lobby, that game was treated as a 1/1 game. At present, the lobby only works for PCs.

I can see my friends all wanting to play their own games, but on a Friday or something, doing a LAN, and loading up one of our current games, and having others play the NPCs. But at present, the lobby is not open. It would read as 1/1 instead of 1/4.

This seems to work the same way as D:OS2 did. The person who recruits the companion to the party will be the only one that can control them. The solution is to dismiss them back to camp and have the other person recruit them to the party. The other person should then be able to control the companion as normal.

I would like to have the option to create a multiplayer game using PCs created by individual players, I.e. join together to continue someone's adventure, but this does not look like a current option.

Depends...we've had some weird glitchy saves... at one point we had been adventuring with 2 PCs, 2 NPCs and the lobby when first set up read 1/4 which was NOT accurate.