Does multiplayer have a story?

[BeeKing]

I like the look of the game, but mainly interested in building because of multiplayer.... Does the multiplayer also have a story? Is it the same as SP?

EDIT: They made the decision to remove the story completely...... Weird choice, we are not going to buy.

[Sketch Elder]

It's my understanding that there is no story in multiplayer. I recommend giving single player a try if you're interested in a story.

[BeeKing]

Yeah I don’t enjoy these games single player…. That’s the thing… first world problems 😂

[Jonathanlh]

MTAS does have one of the best singleplayer experience and I have played my fair share of farming sims/life sims you'll be hooked once you get into and well you might not want to stop either

[BeeKing]

Originally posted by Jonathanlh:

MTAS does have one of the best singleplayer experience and I have played my fair share of farming sims/life sims you'll be hooked once you get into and well you might not want to stop either

I believe it, yet the farming games with these social aspects in the end always feel.... empty

[Delight]

Originally posted by BeeKing:

Originally posted by Jonathanlh:

MTAS does have one of the best singleplayer experience and I have played my fair share of farming sims/life sims you'll be hooked once you get into and well you might not want to stop either

I believe it, yet the farming games with these social aspects in the end always feel.... empty

maybe you just need to find a game thats focused primarily on farming and not games that are created for single player use, with mutliplayer as a forethought in the background (there arent that many). There's farm together? also some phone games that focus on letting you add friends...

[ZakValentine]

While Sandrock multiplayer doesn't have a story like the main game, it is highly entertaining for what it is.
I was a little turned off at first about there being no story, but i've had a decent time exploring things in a more relax mode with my significant other.

[Falaris]

Sandrock is a city around a small oasis. Once upon a time, they found artifacts in the area - lots of them.

People flocked to the area, and started digging. Many made their wealth there. This period is the one covered in the multiplayer game. However, the water dried up, and people left, leaving a few diehards to try to survive in their city. Then a new builder comes to town, hoping to make a difference. That's the start of the singleplayer game.

Both are supposed to have their own stories and quests and such, but I understand it's very early in development for the MP bit yet. I have not actually tried it.

[BeeKing]

Originally posted by Damsel:

Originally posted by BeeKing:

I believe it, yet the farming games with these social aspects in the end always feel.... empty

maybe you just need to find a game thats focused primarily on farming and not games that are created for single player use, with mutliplayer as a forethought in the background (there arent that many). There's farm together? also some phone games that focus on letting you add friends...

No, we are looking for an interesting story too, not just the farming. Phone games are definitelynot what we're looking for

Originally posted by Zak Valentine:

While Sandrock multiplayer doesn't have a story like the main game, it is highly entertaining for what it is.
I was a little turned off at first about there being no story, but i've had a decent time exploring things in a more relax mode with my significant other.

I understand that and I believe it will be entertaining for alot of people, but doing sandbox things in this game to me feels empty. Would be a lot more fun if we had a story to it, a goal to follow. I love how new things get introduced in those stories and interesting plots develop.

Originally posted by Falaris:

Sandrock is a city around a small oasis. Once upon a time, they found artifacts in the area - lots of them.

People flocked to the area, and started digging. Many made their wealth there. This period is the one covered in the multiplayer game. However, the water dried up, and people left, leaving a few diehards to try to survive in their city. Then a new builder comes to town, hoping to make a difference. That's the start of the singleplayer game.

Both are supposed to have their own stories and quests and such, but I understand it's very early in development for the MP bit yet. I have not actually tried it.

Yeah it's still early, but they decided not to add the story and completely remove it from MP.

[Wanderlust]

What's your source for concluding "they decided", did the devs actually announce somewhere that MP will have no story? Or is this more a result of the fact that the two games are essentially different builds with many other differences, some of which may be reconciled at release and some which may not be?

Personally, I'm fine with no story in multiplayer mode. When my wife and I play together, we have found universally that reading is NOT a fun multiplayer experience, it gets in the way, even though we are both voracious readers. When we play together we want to do stuff, not read stuff or listen to peoples' warstories.

But this raises a bunch of questions for my wife and I, who just yesterday started playing this game. Nearly every video we watch references things that don't appear in our game, and it's thoroughly confused us. Now I understand why. We have been looking at a different game. For example, is there a "Construction Junction" in MP? I haven't seen it. According to videos and the wiki, I can start mining at the Abandoned Ruins after doing the Crane questline, except, there is no crane questline in MP.

So, while we're on the topic, where do I go as a multiplayer to mine ores? Anyone know?

Thanks for any insights or suggestions.

[Dimensional Traveler]

Originally posted by Regnor:

So, while we're on the topic, where do I go as a multiplayer to mine ores? Anyone know?

Thanks for any insights or suggestions.

The first abandoned ruins in MP is The Breach. In single player it is a hazardous ruin inside Sandrock, between the Civil Corp and the stairway up to the Church.

Other ruins, both abandoned and hazardous, in MP can be access via specific missions/commissions in the Urban Development screen. That becomes available after a triggered event with Trudy.

[JVC]

Originally posted by Regnor:

What's your source for concluding "they decided", did the devs actually announce somewhere that MP will have no story?

Here's the announcement.
https://steamcommunity.com/games/1084600/announcements/detail/3680048764135937738?snr=2_9_100015_

The multiplayer story was shorter than the singleplayer one and the singleplayer and multiplayer stories didn't work well together because some NPCs appeared in both but the stories were set at different time periods. E.g. Sandrock's founder Martle appeared in the multiplayer story and so did her husband Mort but both were much younger. On the other hand some of the NPCs from the singleplayer story also appeared but were at the same age as in the singleplayer story. That's just some of the issues.

The singleplayer story was much better crafted and with a few months to release it would have been impossible anyway to do a new multiplayer story from scratch. If we ever see a third "My Time" game, they'll no doubt plan the singleplayer and multiplayer much differently and much more integrated and make sure both modes can work within the same code base.

[Wanderlust]

Great, thanks for the info. That makes much more sense now.