Multiplayer Settlers 3 and Settlers 4 | Forums

[hQFragZ]

Are there any news regarding lobbies in settlers 3/4 ??

Much appreciated not to get any general answer ..

[SOSolacex]

I doubt it, but I'd also like to know if there is any progress regarding the AI in multiplayer desync issue.

[Kashir1987]

They said they're looking into it... don't be persistent... it takes time... and community managers can only tell you as much as they're informed from Ubi @Mrau

[Ubi-Thorlof]

Both topics are not off the table, we hope to soon have news regarding the lobbies, we know you've all been waiting a while for news already.

The desynch topic is an ongoing thing but unfortunately also not that easy to fix since there are quite a few possible causes for them and finding them takes time.
Feel free to send us savegames of affected matches at thesettlers-alliance@ubisoft.com so our team can investigate those.

Thank you for being so patient in this matter

[CMacnair]

In the meantime, for those who are interested in connecting online, there are a group of players who play Settlers 3 online using an alternative lobby:

https://lobby.siedler3.net/en?lan=en

This is a very well established community with hundreds of players.

I don't think this works with the history edition though; you'd have to buy the original on gog.com

[Bengo89]

yes you can play settlers 3 online via the Alobby, I would have liked the lobby system from the past, but I think ubisoft just doesn't want to put in the money and time anymore which I think is a shame, via the Alobby there are many people who are online on a regular basis so it is still played enough. greets Bengo1989 (for settlers multiplayer via the Alobby you need either the version of GOG or the regular CD of settlers)

[glory1988]

Guys, they dont give a damn about desync or anything like that, sad to say its been ove 2 years... if they they cared it would have been solved a long time ago.

[jerrygreenest]

Yeah, unfortunately, still no lobbies. I've bought the game long time ago as a CD disk, and it was my most favorite game on a par with starcraft1 and warcraft3, but unfortunately I had no friends to play with, and official servers gone long dead before I actually had quality internet connection, so I never played this game with other people.

As soon as I found this:

> Supports multiplayer with Ubiservices including new UI flow

In this news page:

https://www.thesettlers-alliance.com...story-edition/

Then I instantly bought this game again here on ubisoft.com. It was unpleasant to find out that multiplayer doesn't work... False hope. I have almost like de-ja-vu. And I don't want to bother anyone refunding the game ofc, - it's still quite good, has all expansions included, which I never played, so I'll keep it anyway. But it's still unpleasant I'm still not able to play multiplayer 😂

Also I noticed shadows look a little weird, too much transparent, and some buildings (like Roman Sheep Ranch) look like they have no shadows at all.