Larian Studios Forums Divinity: Original Sin 2 Divinity - Original Sin 2 - Game Master Gamemaster Mode: More then 4 Players?

Hello dear Fellaz,
i wanted to know if u can play with more then 4 People as Player in a Campagne.
Can someone tell me more? Thanks :)

Hello and welcome @RagnaroekIV.

For now the max players we can have in multiplayer are 4 players + GM. Nobody knows if they are gonna expand this further, they are working on their priorities right now.

I have read on other forums of people loading the campaign that came with the game, then deleting everything. Then starting fresh to get 4 players and a GM. But...who knows what sort of bug issues you will face, or what will happen when they fix the 5 player issue.

I understand that the main campaign is made with a max of heroes in mind, but that limitation is absurd in custom campaigns. That should be a priority since many roleplaying groups that are thinking to switch to Divinity are more than 5 people.

Priority? no, at least not now. There is a huge list of priorities right now for Larian, and increase the number of players is not one of them I guess.

This is not a game designed to create persistant worlds or servers with 20 players. I would love to see an small increase of maybe 1 or 2 players more (GM + 5/6 players max) but thats all I would ask for a near-perfect game.

Yes, i hink a small increase of 2 players i see very much a priorty. Or at least show how to mod that without giving official support.
A second GM would make it near-perfect for me.

You already can invite GMs to a campaign

So you say it's possible to have multiple GMs at the same time. Or one is just spectator?
How to do that ?

I hope this is HIGH on the priority list. As pointed out, many groups who would utilize this as a VTT are 5 (or more) players with sweet spot usually being about six people.

This GM client / engine definitely has the nascent potential to becoming "NWN 3" spiritually speaking of course, but with such a harsh limitation in player count it will look more like Sword Coast Legends DM mode in short order. The magic formula of a truly graphical virtual tabletop is aaaaalmost in reach. NWN missed many key points. Baked in dice rolling, TURN based combat, etc. that have been remedied here.

Let's hope they see the criticality of player count if they wish to make this into something that has a community years from now in the way that even ancient NWN still does 10 years on now.