How is Multiplayer?

[tibilicus]

So what happens when you log multiplayer theres a list of games and doesent show whos online you just enter or host game and cant chat till in game?

Just presents a list of games and tells you who the host of that game is.

[Swoosh So]

Really sad to hear, what were they thinking :\

This game needed a better and more user friendly foyer not the removal of the most basic of features :\

[Togakure]

It sounds to me like a short-sighted attempt to mitigate the kind of balogna that went on in main lobby chat--if you can't chat til your in game, you'll join a game hosted by someone you know and all chat would be contained therein. This eliminates the constant haranguing that went on in the main foyer, but (lol) also eliminates all the legitimate communication that took place. As I wrote, a rather short-sighted solution if this was their line of thinking.

[t1master]

it's broken up by regional servers, so it divides the small mp community even further. divide and conquer is the simplest of tactics. ;) i think it's more a steam thing than a ca thing, but it appears mp has been tacked afterwords, like the last two titles. a small module, but look at the discrepancy in posts between mp and sp here and in every other total war forum.

[Swoosh So]

Im starting to hope that this game is terrible in multiplayer because it would be an absolute sham to have a gem of a totalwar game again with no lobby or ways for the community to interact divided by region etc.

I wonder how much of this is under cas control, if they would be able to patch in a chat lobby. They obviously knew the game would come without using stream. So i guess wont be as easy as just patching 1 in.