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How to see and join a friend's game! (pre 1.0.2)
By Ryuichiro
Short ToDoList how you can play with a friend.

Kurze ToDo-Liste um mit einem Freund zu spielen.
   
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Ryuichiro
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Category: Multiplayer, Walkthroughs
Languages: English, German
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10 May, 2016 @ 5:22pm
23 Feb, 2019 @ 3:15pm
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English 
Deutsch 
Screenshots 
Alternatives (not personally confirmed) 
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English
  1. Host opens a game or loads a savegame.
  2. Player enters multiplayer menu. (DON'T refresh the list)
  3. Host sends invite through steam.
  4. Player accepts invite.
  5. The game will show up on the list and you will get a Hotjoin message
  6. Player cancels the Hot Join message.
  7. Player joins the game in the list.
  8. Host accepts Hot Join Request. (Only necessary with loaded savegames)
Alternative to 3./4.
  • Player joins though Steam.
If the host hasn't set a password all steps after 4. are skipped.
Deutsch
  1. Host öffnet ein Spiel oder lädt einen Spielstand.
  2. Spieler betritt Mehrspieler "Spiel-Browser". (NICHT nach Spielen suchen)
  3. Host sendet eine Einladung über Steam.
  4. Spieler akzeptiert die Einladung.
  5. Das Spiel wird in der Liste erscheinen und du erhältst eine Hotjoin Nachricht
  6. Spieler schließt die Hot Join Nachricht.
  7. Spieler tritt dem Spiel in der Liste bei.
  8. Host akzeptiert Hot Join Anfrage. (Nur nötig wenn ein Spielstand geladen wurde)
Alternativ zu 3./4.
  • Spieler tritt dem Spiel über Steam bei.
Wenn der Host kein Passwort festgelegt hat entfallen alle Schritte nach 4.
Screenshots


If it's a new game / Wenn es ein neues Spiel ist:


If it's a loaded savegame / Wenn es ein geladener Spielstand ist:
Alternatives (not personally confirmed)
Everyone has to be in the same Region under
Steam > Settings > Downloads > Download Region.
Now you should see the game without problems.

It could also help to disable the preorder DLCs.
17 Comments
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-=EDF=- Kouta Seto 28 Aug, 2020 @ 3:17am 
Simple: If its a friends game go to your steam friendlist, click on Play, you join automaticaly. If you want the complicated way, go into the multiplayer menu and look for the name said friend gave the game. There are not many MP games, so its easy to spot someone, even more so when its a modded game.
Ryuichiro  [author] 23 Feb, 2019 @ 3:13pm 
One of you has a gameplay-mod enabled which the other one doesn't. Paradox games allow async UI mods, but everything that disables achievements has to be enabled by all players to play the game together.
Memekip 23 Feb, 2019 @ 8:28am 
my friend cant join my game because it says "the host has another version of the game" even though we have the same version plz help
Ryuichiro  [author] 20 Mar, 2018 @ 11:44am 
oO and extremely outdated, did you still have problems today?
SP41K 20 Mar, 2018 @ 11:40am 
nice guide
.Shogu 23 May, 2016 @ 9:26am 
Thanks for the discription!

Some time I didn't saw my friends in the serverlist, maybe to refresh the list is not the way it should be done.

Same as Veroxis, we done it per server-id, it much easyer and you can not miss your friends games. :)

Greetings

Vertoxis 17 May, 2016 @ 6:40pm 
we have been semi-succesfull using SERVER-ID hot joins
SaM 15 May, 2016 @ 1:44am 
Before 1.0.2 , there was also a Direct Connection Feature.. somewhere hidden. You needed to klick on any password-secured Server, hit Join, and then you had to change the server ID in the password-window... ^^
Ryuichiro  [author] 12 May, 2016 @ 12:20pm 
Since 1.0.2 we have the Direct Connection Feature, so we shouldn't need any workarounds. But I haven't tested it yet.
Kepos 12 May, 2016 @ 10:13am 
Thx @Ryuichiro, found it out the hard way, that you can't see hosts with higher DLC.
Friend of mine opened up a game, but couldn't see the game, annyway I used the OP way. After he disabled exclusive alien race it worked. So...the 3 versions have to check to use exactly the same DLC as the host, otherwise I fear you won't see the hosted game.