I can't play custom chars in MP!

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freepower

First time out of the vault
Basically, after all the usual faffing around with ports and hamachi, me and my good friend have been able to play FoT online, most enjoyably, and everything works absolutely fine apart from one thing -

We can't use custom chars.

As long as we stick ENTIRELY to the prefabs, we can play all we like. But they're lame and we want to match my deathclaws against his 50k muties... Anyone have any ideas that could help with this? We're both patched up and are running no mods.
 
I'm sure this problem seems "extremely bizarre" to you, but how about making the thread title more informative, like "I can't play custom characters in MP!" ?
 
*shrug*

Sure, no problem. How'd you like it? And isn't it a bizarre problem? I've searched as many combinations of "custom" and "multiplayer" as i can handle and i can't see anyone else with the same issue...?
 
Ask a silly question but do you have a copy of his muties, and does your friend have a copy of your deathclaws?

How did you make these custom characters? With the character editor in the mulitplayer section or use the FT Tools? Are they .ent or .chr files?

Custom characters = custom game = modding = moved!
 
All the chars for both of us have been created through the standard MP char creation, and they're all .chr.

We did try the long shot of swapping chars, and we've still been unable to play even though our multiplayer custom chars options are exactly the same.

We did consider somehow modifying the prefabs, although that, understandably, seems to be quite hard to do - unless im missing something blindingly obvious. Me and this friend are only going to play each other (no lame all-hume, all gauss, all power armour games for us, heck no), so if editing the prefabs and then swapping THEM would solve our problem, then thats fine if it can be done.

Thanks for the quick replies, both of you.
 
No, we're well aware of that.

If custom chars are allowed, and we take them, then neither team can spawn, although the map loads.

If custom chars are allowed, and we take only prefabs, then both teams spawn and the games runs perfectly.

If custom chars aren't allowed, see above.

Anything else?

(and why is this modding?)
 
It's modding because you were talking about custom characters, 50k muties. I'm not one for multiplayer but I thought the limits were 2k or 10k.

If I'm wrong I'll move it back.

Have you tried different maps, or creating cheap custom characters, the map editor gives options for points limits and allowing/disallowing choosing squads and you may just be over the limit.
 
^ no, limits can be set to up to 150K.

Basically, we've tried every map, and every squad possible on each map that involves customs, including mixed prefab custom, solo customs, etc, etc...

No joy.
 
Okay moving back.

Can you start a multiplayer game, offline? Just you, don't link to another game just start up multiplayer, host a game and choose your custom characters.

Then see if they spawn, if they don't it's most likely a problem with the characters. If they do then try connecting with your friend without using hamachi. Or contact a hamachi support forum.
 
^ yeh, that works fine, actually.

Speaking of testing chars, is there any way i could solo my MP chars for an extended period of time? I'd like to check some drugs effects, HtH effectiveness, etc, and the single player custom mission doesn't (i presume) allow your MP chars?
 
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