Can't Play w a Friend, slight version difference

[MordridBlack]

My friend and I want to play a game of Stellaris together but for some reason he is on Butler 2.8.1 (dfce) while I'm on Butler 2.8.1 (0f3b)

We are playing with mods and he doesn't have all the dlc (I do) but I haven't seen an issue like this in awhile.


I think the only solution for him to fix it is to uninstall and do a clean reinstall but if there are any other suggestions that can be given to try and fix it (beyond doing a verifying file integrity) that would be nice

 

[MordridBlack]

never mind

it seems to be a weird issue on my end with one or more of the mods

but my friend doesn't get the same result despite having the exact same mods, so it might be due to the missing dlc he has not registering right with some of the mods

 

[AndrewT]

FYI DLCs do not affect checksums at all. But any mods in use must be identical of course, even their load order may need to be the same.

 

[MordridBlack]

FYI DLCs do not affect checksums at all. But any mods in use must be identical of course, even their load order may need to be the same.

we had the exact same mods

and i don't think the launcher orders the mods in any particular way...and if there is a way to change that i am unaware of it

 

[AndrewT]

The launcher CAN preserve mod load order, but I believe that is implemented in some games and not others, according to the wishes of the developers of each game.

Anyway you do have a mod issue if you can play MP together unmodded. Try both enabling just one mod, test, enable another, test - you should be able to pin down which one is the problem that way.

 

[MordridBlack]

we tried a different mod playset (taking out some mods that hadn't yet been updated for 2.8.1) and got the same mini-version thus fixing that problem


now however we have a new issue is that with or without mods, we can't play together


whenever he tries to join my lobby (either through steam or just finding my game on the server list and putting in the password) within a minute or two the game boots me back to the desktop

we've tested it with mods, without mods, switching who hosts, and even getting someone else to host and it always results in either me being booted back to the desktop, him being booted back to the desktop or the other person being booted back to the desktop

i've even gone as far as to do an uninstall and clean reinstall with no change

we think it might be something with the connection given this is the only game this happens with, possibly due to the peer to peer connection style of stellaris...as server based games; like the master chief collection, we can play together just fine

 

[AndrewT]

What if you both opt into the stellaris_beta version, in the Steam Betas tab for this game? That uses Paradox MP services instead of Steam's.

 

[MordridBlack]

What if you both opt into the stellaris_beta version, in the Steam Betas tab for this game? That uses Paradox MP services instead of Steam's.

i'll suggest this the next time we're both online

we hadn't tried that as of yet because i know the beta builds can be a bit buggy

 

[AndrewT]

stellaris_beta ought to be identical to the current Steam version, except for using Paradox MP instead of Steam.