I had hopes this game would improve its multiplayer over Warband, but I never expected it to regress by a mile. The multiplayer is completely awful. Stay away from this title and stick to Warband if you wanted decent multiplayer.
If this game hadn't been in development for such an extreme length of time, I might give the game some leniency for the "early access" and "beta" arguments, but we shouldn't be here after this much "work." If it's not good after this much time, then I'm dubious it'll ever be better. Prove me wrong, Taleworlds. Please.