I don't think you can just JOIN a game as a custom character mid-game, but I'm pretty sure that if you've joined at game start (As in during chargen) you can in fact use a custom character then and during any subsequent runthroughs. Like you join during chargen, and make your custom character. They save with you around, and from then on you join the game when they load and you're in.
Oh I know you can't, thats why I'm asking this feature to me implemented.
But letting you 'import' your character from another save would be work they didn't do / is actually pretty hard to do, so it's not in. Plus level balance is hard, and if you export a character at level 7 you basically CAN'T de-level it to fit with a level 3 party (that's just not how the game is currently statted to support, to my knowledge) so that's part of it.
Ehhh, im sorry but it's not.
Its actually pretty simple. You just need to equalize the level of the chacacter to the current level of the game you are playing. The only "issue" you may find is the itens you are carrying.
And those items, your gear, can have a penalty according to your level.
Say you are 10 and playing on a 5 game, you get 50% penalty on every stat of your itens. Sure you can balance that somehow.
So if you want to use a custom character in your friend's game, long and short of it? Join when they're first starting the game.
I know that too, and thats sound more a workaround than a proper solution.
Can you imagine the amount of friends of mine Im gonna have to ask..
"hey man, don't star the game without me, so I can join you in the future!"...
2...4...10 times...
Can you imagine how hard is to make new friends?
You are not gonna ask a stranger to restart its game just so you can play with the character you want.
Roleplaying speaking, im huge fan of fighters, barbarians and humans, I don't feel confotable join a game and playing (by randoness) a lizard wizard...a dwarf battlemage....an elf Rogue... or w/e the person of that game created. I can´t choose who im going to possess and I can't bring my own and beloved character... I don't care if he's coming naked, zero gear. I just want to be possible to play with him.
Hence why, try to join a multiplayer game.
"you have been kicked from the party" over and over again.
Then it was in the Hall of Echos, now I suppose it will be on your ship. So it is entirely possible that you can change everything about your characters (barring the origins) if you join a game after leaving Fort Joy.
I think thats not the point.
I don't want to respec the npc so I can play with the class, race, gender etc. Besides imagine if someone enters your game, respec one of your npcs for something you don't want/need... nah.
It's much better if someone joins the game and takes plance with his own character the current place of that npc. If the guy leaves the game, the npc comes back. It's pretty simple and a elegant feature for multiplayer.
