Transferring Characters in Multiplayer

[Scipio]

Has anyone figured out a way to bring characters from the Single Player game into a multiplayer session? This seems like it would have been a no brainer decision for the initial release, but apparently not.

Hopefully there's a method out there, whether official, or in the form of a save-game editor. Otherwise, this will spoil half the enjoyment for my friends on the LAN.

Thanks,

Sean

[Hacknshoot]

I haven't seen a method yet, but I am sure that you can manipulate the character of the savegame into the roster to play. But I haven't tried this. I guess I should now. :)

::Edit:: Well, scratch that, unless someone knows the whole set of values for the character alone, and can find a way to import them into the MP roster. :p I don't know how to Hex edit.

[chamr]

There is a method to transfer characters from computer to computer via LAN which I think will get you what you want. Search around in this forum and maybe over at typhoon's forum and you'll find it.

However, for Internet/Gamespy, we're all screwed. Hopefully they'll address this before they stop patching as it's quite a drag to not be able to hop into a random game with strangers and have whatever character you want to bring into the game available.

[Kronos]

Wow all you hafta do is go into multiplayer, internet, and the IP option then click load character :rolleyes:

[ephron]

I play on a lan with my other PCs and there are a few ways to exchange characters, but other then the tride and trude copy&paste it is complicated.

"Load Character" loads the last character that you loaded into a game with that you didn't host. If you host your character doesnt go into the character cache and so you can't 'load character' them. I'll explain.

I play DL solo more often then with my brother or cousin but sometimes they want to play with me. But I can't just load my character to their game, nor can they load their character to my game, why? See above. It complicates it, the only way to get your character into the character cache so you can 'load character' them, is to pick them in a game someone else hosts. You with me so far?
To get our characters together I will host a game, load my save with my character in it, my brother makes a new character or just loads whatever happens to be in the 'load character' default (remember that which character is in the default is the last character that was loaded in a non-host game on that machine). We load in, me on my character, him on his level 1, i save on a blank slot, exit. I rehost that same game that we just exited, but I play the level 1 and my brother plays my character. We've switched. Then we load in, exit again. Now my character is on his cache and then he hosts a game with his character, i load his character and he 'load characters' mine. We enter, we save, we exit. Now our characters are in both our caches just need to swap em. So what do we do? He host game, load the game we just saved but this time he can load his character and I can load mine.

It all sounds really confusing, and it was for me for a little bit, but once you realize that whatever character you load to the pc that doesnt host will have that character available on 'load character' it makes it simple. I have a save with the first elder in the house of the tiger trial with 30 hp left, load 2 characters in, kill one, and have a level 1 kill the elder for 700k advernture points and bam, level 9 in a kill. You can easily repeat this too. You save the game with the elder at 1-30hp, save game. Make your save file shared on network, make a copy of it on the other pc and then all you have to do is switch back and forth on which pc you kill it and you make 700k exp a kill every few minutes. It is cheating though.

[Dungeon crawler]

Honestly Ephrons post needs to be stickied it explains what i have seen on every **** Dungeon lords forum , it will clear up what ought to be cleared up from the beginning in this game.

It has the basic fact of how the load character works and i just realized it , thank you ephron. The only part that might not be too healthy for stickying is the cheat part :D but that is up to those that can sticky

Now this is assuming there are people who can sticky and care to read as well. I have faith in the likes of Jeremy DC so ill be on the believer side

- DC