What? No, mate. FIrst of all, all worked perfectly until 116 and I played with mates from steam/epic, on persistent empires and common multiplayer, all the time. Then now I play on PC again but with XBOX console players because they are also in the situation without latest release. In addition to the fact I cannot play with other PC players due to incompatible version of the game, I cannot even use mods, because they all were updated to 128 as well.
Taleworlds are just amateurs in product release, nothing like you are describing heree.....