So Saints Row 2 Online is supposedly working nowadays, with mods. I don’t know if works but I want to try it. I managed to host a game and play alone but I don’t know if other people can join.
The game is at a really good discount on GOG if you want to participate (like, 0,79$ right now). I’m using the GOG version.
If enough people are interested, I can try to host a server (or anyone else) and we get to play it. Or at least try to play it…
Why is this so interesting? Well, the whole lobby can be made of chubby women and/or men! Also, you can customize your character however you want.
I’ll try to be available in this Saturday (tomorrow) at 4:00 to 6:00 PM BRT UTC-3, or from 16:00 to 18:00. I’ll create a group on Steam to organize it better. Hopefully it works.
Brief explanation for the multiplayer of this game:
Co-op - 2 Players only. You and your partner get to play through the main missions, sidequests and explore the open world together. You can customize cars, eat food (really, there’s drive-throughs and restaurants!), buy clothes, shoot gangs and explore the world in general.
Multiplayer - It seems that this one can be played up to 12 players depending on the mode chosen. It has deathmatch (Gangsta Brawl), team deathmatch (Team Gangsta Brawl) and the Strong Arm mode that teams must complete missions to get more money to win.
Mods needed, both of these are important to play:
Juiced Patch - Fixes performance, glitches and other things including the multiplayer mode which now uses OpenSpy.
DXVK - Increases performance. (If it doesn’t work, remove the d3d9.dll from the modpack)
Optional mods but recommended:
SuperUI - Improves the game interface.
High Quality Radio Mod - Fixes the radios being low quality 
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I’ve made a modpack which contains all of these mods and to install them, just open the game’s folder, drag the contents inside and overwrite (or make a backup if you want) everything:
You might want to configure juiced.ini if you want to. I recommend going to the end of the document and setting “FreeMPClothing” to 1, if you more customization options right at the beginning for the multiplayer mode (co-op doesn’t need this).
Important: First execute the game through it’s executable on the folder “sr2_pc.exe”
If a CMD appears, then it is working.
That should be it! Now you can play the game (it plays fine in single player). Below are the instructions to play multiplayer:
- Either go to co-op or multiplayer.
- Go to “Online”.
- Go to create account and fill out the necessary fields and make sure the e-mail ends with @openspy(dot)net; if it doesn’t accept your username for some reason, try another one unti@openspy it works. And the (dot) is a dot, like this .
- Log in and now you can play the multiplayer. Though it shows the IP of the server.
- For co-op you can already open it from the main menu just go to the coop part and put it open to all.
Some tips:
The main character is different from the multiplayer character, but you can import only the physical appearance of your main character to multiplayer. It doesn’t seem to be possible to import clothing, but I don’t know.
Play the tutorial up until you free Gat from the court, that should give you a basics on how the controllers for this game works and should be enough to play the multiplayer modes.