About to buy CK2 on steam sale, quick Answers needed!

[Synario]

Hey as the title says, I have 25 dollars in my steam balance and am about to buy CK2, either the original, or the complete edition, or maybe the original and then the rome or islam dlc..

My question is, whats the main multiplayer DLC at the moment? In other words, do you have to pretty much own all the DLC (Rome/Islam) to find a decent number of multi-player games to choose from?

 

[James The 1st]

I don't know about the MP part, but you might as well get SoI and LoR while they are cheep.

 

[Synario]

I know, I pretty much intend to buy both, but tonight I wanted to start up a game and wanted to know whether I should get complete, rome, or islam..Personally rome looks like it adds the most important features and gameplay changes.

 

[Synario]

even if you don't plaY MP could you just pop in the MP forum (since I can't access it) and tell me what DLC the most recent games require?

 

[Korbah]

None, Paradox have enabled it so that if you don't have the DLC but the HOST has the DLC, you can still play with DLC features iirc.

 

[unmerged(509501)]

I was under the impression that only one person needed to own a copy of the DLC and that it would then apply to all the players in game.

 

[flame7926]

Yeah, you can play any MP game no matter what DLC's you have.

 

[Korbah]

I was under the impression that only one person needed to own a copy of the DLC and that it would then apply to all the players in game.

I thought they said it's if the host has the DLC active?

 

[Synario]

Awesome! Not to worry, I will still eventually buy all the DLC.

 

[riknap]

I thought they said it's if the host has the DLC active?

that's pretty much it and the same thing. obviously if the DLC isn't ticked then it won't be detected by the game

 

[Korbah]

that's pretty much it and the same thing. obviously if the DLC isn't ticked then it won't be detected by the game

There's a difference between what I said (Host having DLC active), and what someone else said (anyone having the DLC active). I'm almost positive that it was the former, the host requires the DLC, but anyone else doesn't.

 

[riknap]

There's a difference between what I said (Host having DLC active), and what someone else said (anyone having the DLC active). I'm almost positive that it was the former, the host requires the DLC, but anyone else doesn't.

yeah, I realized I glossed over his post and didn't notice that he just said "... only one person ...", without specifying if that one person was the host or not (my mind is fond of jumping to conclusions way too often :laugh.; I focused on him saving a player should just "have" it (since for example, I have the Aztec DLC but I don't even plan to activate it since it just isn't to my taste but I just bought it for patronage and a misunderstanding on the screenies [I actually thought they'd get musketmen since an event screenshot preview mentioned aztecs with "thundersticks", so I was curious to see how they'd implement that])


anyway to wrap this thread up, so long as it's the host who has the DLC and it is active, ie. ticked in the launcher, then anyone playing that game will be able to access the relevant features (ie. Muslim mechanics and events from SoI, retinues and Byzantium flavour from LoR, and std's and ritual surgery from SI)

 

[DarkPhoenix]

None, Paradox have enabled it so that if you don't have the DLC but the HOST has the DLC, you can still play with DLC features iirc.

Yes, and this is why P'dox is awesome. We came across this by chance while starting a MP game (I was the first one to own LoR, and the host of course), and all features (except some graphics stuff, IIRC) was available to everyone (retinues, ..).

 

[smeggy]

The host limits the DLC usage, the clients expand the players options with DLC. Example if the host has the Swords of Islam, he can play islamic dynasties, but clients who connected without this DLC cant pick those, only the Christian.

 

[unmerged(75409)]

Yes, and this is why P'dox is awesome. We came across this by chance while starting a MP game (I was the first one to own LoR, and the host of course), and all features (except some graphics stuff, IIRC) was available to everyone (retinues, ..).

It's a sneaky way to get players hooked on DLC features... Have them play it with friends first, and then when they play singleplayer again they'll go and buy them

 

[Lord Finnish]

It's a sneaky way to get players hooked on DLC features... Have them play it with friends first, and then when they play singleplayer again they'll go and buy them

It's also very gentleman-like behavior from the devs. They don't want to ruin someone's fun just because he doesn't have the exact same DLC as his friends.