Strange bug in LAN games after last patch

[Karmah]

Me and my girl we play quite a lot of civs (she has 3,5k hours of civ and I have 2k).
We tend to play lan games of every kind.
After last patch , everytime she hosts a game , Civ uses our Windows login names. When I do Civ uses our steam names as it alwyas has.
What happens is that if she tries to host it goes ok , but when loading a LAN_mp Saves , I m suddently identified by my steam name (even so she hosts) hence not matching the windows name I have on the save , making it impossible to rejoin the game as my civ.

This is really a bug a wrong variable interpolation somewhere I guess

 

[Karmah]

OK found a vodoo solution...I m gonna post it in case someone comes here having the same problem (Names do not match during the load of a saved lan games)
Jump around your chair and recite three psalms ...seriously now , just host a new game (a small map ofc) , launch it, quit to main menu , load the desired save and for some reasons it works. Apparently once you launch a game , some id checking process must be triggered and you are then identified properly for your whole civ session.
You have to do it all over again once you exit civ.

 

[Lord Katana]

Can confirm solution posted. Had it too. Game would identify me with the wrong name (hence not able to get into my own civ). Loaded up a single player game, turned, exited to main menu and then i could rejoin the MP game in the right slot

 

[Frdmlover]

Multiplayer is the biggest disappointment for me.
I can't begin to imagine why they tried to make a turn based game into a real time game.
It just doesn't work and is really a drain on the player.
The only version of MP I enjoy as much as single player is Hot Seat...sadly that is not an option for LAN or Internet games...if it were then I would be perfectly happy and never have even posted.

As it is, I can only play the hot seat game with my friend when I am home on vacation provided he has the time to invest. So I miss out on playing one of the best MP TBS games I have ever encountered, even with all its flaws.

Firaxis..Please make Hot Seat a Lan and Internet option, and fix the MP so it works right. What's the hold up?

 

[Reggaepocalypse]

^ Irrelevant...might as well be it's own thread.

To the point, my girl and I not only sound exactly like you and yours, but we have the same exact issue. We also get put on the wrong team...the player joining the game becomes the player with the highest score instead of the team he/she originally played as.

At least we're not the only ones, so it's likely to be fixed with the next big patch.

 

[Meceka]

I had this issue and found some workarounds. In some games with my 3 friends on LAN (total 4) when loading a saved game, we could hardly continue the game, because our names have changed to windows login name(user name) and steam name randomly (both host and other players), but we have found many workarounds for this. I have shared every workarounds that I've found in my site. (three of them) so that others receiving this issue can find workarounds via google. Here is the link:

http://www.civilization-tr.com/en/civilization-name-alias-bug-fix/

Those workarounds have worked for us and many other people, notify me if it doesn't work