Hey everyone, Last week we have released an Open Beta branch on Steam, marked as "open_beta - 1.3.2 Multiplayer Improvements". Many of you participated in the initiative, and we have collected a great amount of insights coupled with your very valuable feedback. Thanks to these data, we are now exploring an option to improve the Networking. This change applied only to this open beta branch on Steam will increase Save Game Transfer Speed for all players participating in a multiplayer game. This improvement is now available. We are eager to read what you think of this change and hear your thoughts. If you are timed out from the server when trying to join a multiplayer game, please let us know. Note that we are still working on tweaking the Multiplayer experience for CK3 in this given branch, and so players could encountered a known issue preventing players from seeing any game in the MP lobby or kicking them back to the main menu from the loading screen. We wanted to thank you for taking the time to raise your report to our teams, and for participating in the open beta! :) You can access it by right-clicking Crusader Kings III in your Steam library, selecting Properties, entering the 'Betas' tab and selecting "open_beta - 1.3.2 multiplayer improvements" from the list.
We do ask that if you do participate in this Steam branch that you PLEASE RE-REPORT ANY MULTIPLAYER ISSUES YOU MAY BE FACING - provided they reoccur for you on this build, of course - as it will help us determine how the fixes on this particular branch are going in real time. This Beta branch is entirely voluntary and you are under no obligation to participate if you do not wish to do so.