Multiplayer. I heard it's limited.

[Ziack]

My wife and I want to play this game together, in short, but we're reading that you can only invite people into your world to "See what you have" kinda thing. We cannot build and experience the game together? If not, then that's a huge miss for us..

As an Aussie, I watched the trailer with a huge smile on my face, was ready to drop the dollars to get the game, but then saw a negative review regarding the multiplayer.. such a shame really. The trailer definitely suggested it was more Co-op than just "Hey come on over".
Hoping for something more like Stardew. Looking at the Roadmap. I hope that's what that first update means.

[Senka]

Originally posted by Ziack:

My wife and I want to play this game together, in short, but we're reading that you can only invite people into your world to "See what you have" kinda thing. We cannot build and experience the game together? If not, then that's a huge miss for us..

As an Aussie, I watched the trailer with a huge smile on my face, was ready to drop the dollars to get the game, but then saw a negative review regarding the multiplayer.. such a shame really. The trailer definitely suggested it was more Co-op than just "Hey come on over".

Not quite sure your meaning. After each player has completed their first day in their own play through and got the initial starting recipes, you'll be able to experience everything together as if playing single player. The only exception is the host has to be the one to place the housing deeds. Decorations, missions, everything else is played together.

You're getting the same experience, minus one player's ability to place the housing deeds. The joining player can even rearrange and place items in the main players house.

[Ziack]

Originally posted by Elalith:

Originally posted by Ziack:

My wife and I want to play this game together, in short, but we're reading that you can only invite people into your world to "See what you have" kinda thing. We cannot build and experience the game together? If not, then that's a huge miss for us..

As an Aussie, I watched the trailer with a huge smile on my face, was ready to drop the dollars to get the game, but then saw a negative review regarding the multiplayer.. such a shame really. The trailer definitely suggested it was more Co-op than just "Hey come on over".

Not quite sure your meaning. After each player has completed their first day in their own play through and got the initial starting recipes, you'll be able to experience everything together as if playing single player. The only exception is the host has to be the one to place the housing deeds. Decorations, missions, everything else is played together.

You're getting the same experience, minus one player's ability to place the housing deeds. The joining player can even rearrange and place items in the main players house.

Are there no NPC's? Story events? etc. The impression i'm getting is that progress is not shared.

[Senka]

There's numerous NPC's that all visit your island randomly. Once you become friendly with them, you'll be given the option to place their housing deed. It's a bit more like minecraft in that you have a very limited narrative to get you going and your fun is entirely defined by what you want to do and how you want to progress. Seasonable events and what not are in the roadmap but have yet to make it into the actual game. I've sunk quite a bit of time and I'm not bored in the slightest, and have only barely begun building my town.

The price of the game is less then I'd pay for a movie ticket and snacks for roughly 1-3 hours of entertainment. I've been able to get my moneys worth and then some. I'd highly suggest the game.

[Ziack]

Originally posted by Elalith:

There's numerous NPC's that all visit your island randomly. Once you become friendly with them, you'll be given the option to place their housing deed. It's a bit more like minecraft in that you have a very limited narrative to get you going and your fun is entirely defined by what you want to do and how you want to progress. Seasonable events and what not are in the roadmap but have yet to make it into the actual game. I've sunk quite a bit of time and I'm not bored in the slightest, and have only barely begun building my town.

The price of the game is less then I'd pay for a movie ticket and snacks for roughly 1-3 hours of entertainment. I've been able to get my moneys worth and then some. I'd highly suggest the game.

Yeah I'm sure it's great and I wasn't really debating if it was worth the money. It's just something my wife and I want to play together from start to finish.

[Wakitri]

My partner and I are playing together for a couple days now. While the host (me) has to be the one to do the deeds as previously mentioned, I still think it's worth playing together. There's joint progress in most other aspects and there's tons of content to work through together. :) A couple of features I love is that there's a pop up when one person donates to the community fund (for buildings and things), and also there's a bulletin board you get with missions from villagers and when one person accepts a quest it comes up on both screens. Plus the dev has said that the first content update we get in early access is adding guest houses for multiplayer. :)

[Ziack]

Originally posted by Wakitri:

My partner and I are playing together for a couple days now. While the host (me) has to be the one to do the deeds as previously mentioned, I still think it's worth playing together. There's joint progress in most other aspects and there's tons of content to work through together. :) A couple of features I love is that there's a pop up when one person donates to the community fund (for buildings and things), and also there's a bulletin board you get with missions from villagers and when one person accepts a quest it comes up on both screens. Plus the dev has said that the first content update we get in early access is adding guest houses for multiplayer. :)

Yeah we were thinking to wait for that first update :D Well, sounds like you're having fun, so that's great!

[Ziack]

Originally posted by Wakitri:

My partner and I are playing together for a couple days now. While the host (me) has to be the one to do the deeds as previously mentioned, I still think it's worth playing together. There's joint progress in most other aspects and there's tons of content to work through together. :) A couple of features I love is that there's a pop up when one person donates to the community fund (for buildings and things), and also there's a bulletin board you get with missions from villagers and when one person accepts a quest it comes up on both screens. Plus the dev has said that the first content update we get in early access is adding guest houses for multiplayer. :)

If You can already do a lot of stuff together, what is the point in the upcoming guest house? I haven't played yet, so unsure what that would mean.

[GonzAnt]

can anyone verify that although you can unlock deeds as not the host of the island, you cannot place them as Fletch keeps saying "we will leave that to people that live here"?

On top of that the host doesnt get access to the deeds unlocked by other?

This pretty much breaks coop

[GonzAnt]

Originally posted by Elalith:

Originally posted by Ziack:

My wife and I want to play this game together, in short, but we're reading that you can only invite people into your world to "See what you have" kinda thing. We cannot build and experience the game together? If not, then that's a huge miss for us..

As an Aussie, I watched the trailer with a huge smile on my face, was ready to drop the dollars to get the game, but then saw a negative review regarding the multiplayer.. such a shame really. The trailer definitely suggested it was more Co-op than just "Hey come on over".

Not quite sure your meaning. After each player has completed their first day in their own play through and got the initial starting recipes, you'll be able to experience everything together as if playing single player. The only exception is the host has to be the one to place the housing deeds. Decorations, missions, everything else is played together.

You're getting the same experience, minus one player's ability to place the housing deeds. The joining player can even rearrange and place items in the main players house.

what about deeds (in my partner and I's case. mining deed for deep mining) unlocked by the nonhost not being present in the host's available deeds list? (if the point is that the host has to have the same licenses as the nonhost again it breaks the point of coop)

[Ziack]

Originally posted by GonzAnt:

Originally posted by Elalith:

Not quite sure your meaning. After each player has completed their first day in their own play through and got the initial starting recipes, you'll be able to experience everything together as if playing single player. The only exception is the host has to be the one to place the housing deeds. Decorations, missions, everything else is played together.

You're getting the same experience, minus one player's ability to place the housing deeds. The joining player can even rearrange and place items in the main players house.

what about deeds (in my partner and I's case. mining deed for deep mining) unlocked by the nonhost not being present in the host's available deeds list? (if the point is that the host has to have the same licenses as the nonhost again it breaks the point of coop)

Hmm sounds troublesome..

[Gir-nade]

So from my 20 hours of purely co-op experience, the only things that visitors are restricted from doing are buying/selling farm animals and placing/moving buildings. That being said, the latter end of that I end up communicating with my "visitors" (My friends are practically residents themselves) as to where we wanna place the buildings and it all works out. Other than those two things, everything else is available to other players that join your island.

[Stormzilla]

Originally posted by Gir-nade:

So from my 20 hours of purely co-op experience, the only things that visitors are restricted from doing are buying/selling farm animals and placing/moving buildings. That being said, the latter end of that I end up communicating with my "visitors" (My friends are practically residents themselves) as to where we wanna place the buildings and it all works out. Other than those two things, everything else is available to other players that join your island.

So as a visitor if you unlock a deed say the deep mining license, can you get the deed from fletch and give it to the host?

[Gir-nade]

Originally posted by Storm:

Originally posted by Gir-nade:

So from my 20 hours of purely co-op experience, the only things that visitors are restricted from doing are buying/selling farm animals and placing/moving buildings. That being said, the latter end of that I end up communicating with my "visitors" (My friends are practically residents themselves) as to where we wanna place the buildings and it all works out. Other than those two things, everything else is available to other players that join your island.

So as a visitor if you unlock a deed say the deep mining license, can you get the deed from fletch and give it to the host?

I've not tested something like that yet. If a visiting player unlocks deep mining the deed may only become available on their island. If not then I would assume its just as you said. If you get to test that out though let me know what the result is like!

[GonzAnt]

Originally posted by Storm:

Originally posted by Gir-nade:

So from my 20 hours of purely co-op experience, the only things that visitors are restricted from doing are buying/selling farm animals and placing/moving buildings. That being said, the latter end of that I end up communicating with my "visitors" (My friends are practically residents themselves) as to where we wanna place the buildings and it all works out. Other than those two things, everything else is available to other players that join your island.

So as a visitor if you unlock a deed say the deep mining license, can you get the deed from fletch and give it to the host?

I havent been able to find it cause Fletch says "we leave that to the residents" or something like that. And the owner only sees their deeds and no mine. Next step is that my partner is going to unlock deepmining and see if the deed pops up. Then it should anyway but it proves it. It could be a balance feature eg to prevent people with far advanced skill trees to just min max growth. But havent tried to play alone still so dont know if this is AC inspired yet :D

[Teralitha]

Each player in the MP game progresses at their own pace. They buy their own licenses, have their own bank account. They can donate funds toward the town debt, share storage boxes, workstations and the main players house. It doesnt appear that each player gets their own house, which is sad.