I know it was mentioned in Discord that devs will be looking into this, but I just want to get the request on record here - please please find a way for friends to join the same Crossroads. Right now, unless you are the "primary", the "travel to crossroads" button is basically dead for group members, and (I think) it's forcing me to keep our respite on the original abeyance realm so we end up in the same storied realms.
Thank you! The update is amazing!
Edit: sorry my post is here as well as in reply, my phone wouldn't let me type here last night.
Once you get portals you can build a portal by your respite and use an address card you made in your friend's abeyance realm to make it MILDLY simpler and not rely on your friend being online to invite you, but really we should be able to do something click on the "Crossways" lodestar and say "Return to this crossroad in the future? Yes/No", similar to building a new Estate Cairn and then activating it to move your respite.
I’ve noticed this as well and will be looking forward to the fix though I wanted to share the workaround my partner and I figured. If you put a lodestar down, it can teleport to the crossways of that abeyance so we put one down at our base and he will simply go to it to port to the crossways instead of using the direct port UI feature. A bit convoluted but it’s working out fine for us at the moment.
I'm going to play devil's advocate for the devs here. I don't think the dev team ever thought people would want to play Nightingale together, because most people don't want to play together. So they're still working on the multiplayer experience because it isn't what the game was designed for. Nightingale was designed to be solo and alone most of the time, not all of the time, but most of the time, I would say a good 50 to 60%.
So far this is my biggest issue. The crossways has made things appear to be so much more fluid only to make this so much more difficult and frustrating for co-op. Previously it was so lovely being able to build a base together in co-op in the same abeyance but now we have to constantly join each other wherever we go rather than just walk through portals from our home which seemed easier
happening here as well, would definitely prefer for my crossway realm to be the one i did with my friends instead of a separate one, i don't want to have to clear them a 2nd time by myself.
I second this. My friends and I are all playing together, and it feels very disjointed when we need to go to our own crossways rather than being able to sync up together.