When loading a save game characters are not assigned to the correct players. If I as the host try to reassign the characters to the right players all the characters become transparent, and freeze in place. No one can move their characters. If at that point I try to load a game I can click load game, select a game, hit load, but the screen closes and nothing happens. I just sit there staring at the characters in the normal gameplay screen.

Now. A friend hosted a fresh new game and we tested this. It worked fine. When he would load the game and we (my wife and I) joined we had the correct characters. The only time it bugged was when he tried to change our characters as we were loading in.
My wife hosted, no issue. We can load the game with 3 people and everyone gets assigned the correct characters.
And now we get to my PC. When I load a game the character that is active on load is not who I should be playing. (this is from main menu load game) As long as I select the correct character before my wife joins the character assignment almost works correctly. I usually have to assign a NPC back to myself but thats ok. The issue is when I hit load game while in a game. Because we are both in the game simultaneously I dont get a chance to change my character as we are both loading in simultaneously so we get assigned the wrong characters and when we try to fix it the characters freeze in place, go invisible (transparent), and we cant move. At that point loading the game or hitting main menu goes into a stuck loading screen at 0% and I have to kill the process with task manager and start over from the main menu.

I have verified the cache. I have deleted all appdata folders from my system. I have tried creating brand new campaigns. I have redownloaded and installed the game fresh. graphics drivers are updated.

Nothing seems to change this weird character assignment bug.

I truly hope you guys can help as having to go out to the main menu every time we want to load a save is tedious.

update: I can reproduce this on my wife's pc now as well as my laptop which is using wifi instead of wired connection. Reproduction is dead simple. New game, make characters, load into first area. create a manual save. exit to main menu. load game, load the save. notice that you are player 2's character. if you dont select your character before player 2 joins they will be assigned your character. trying to fix the assignment in the multiplayer screen causes both characters to go semi invisible and freeze in place. The client can go back to main menu but the host will hard lock if they try to load game or go back to main menu.

Last edited by sudson; 12/10/23 03:14 AM.