It Is Possible to Play Single-Player Offline?

[D.A.R.K.]

Like Left 4 Dead, or I need to be online all the time?

[_oBSOLEte_]

You can play Vermintide 2 offline on the consoles version. Since then Fatshark has been obsessed to make a successful live service at last that they're forcing online on all their games. This one doesnt even permit solo online, you only get a private lobby on a crappy amazon server with a group of two minimum.

[D.A.R.K.]

Originally posted by Artificial:

That feature was originally announced and and advertised with a release date of December 2022, however, its since gone completely MIA with no updated ETA.

Originally posted by Fatshark:

Now we are confident in our Dedicated Servers, we would like to take the time and answer those recurring couple of questions that remain; “Can I play Darktide solo?”, “Can I play a private game with one or two of my friends?”.

The answers will be Yes, and Yes.

We’ve been working on an option to play exclusively in Solo Mode, where you will be hosting locally your own instance with bots. Because you will be hosting the AI and other game systems locally, this will increase performance cost. However, we continue to monitor and improve the performance where we can. Solo play is in its final stages of testing as we fix the last issues that remain. We aim to release this at Launch. If not, a patch shortly after that in December.

https://steamcommunity.com/games/1361210/announcements/detail/3467237196849592011

Recently, someone on Fatshark's forums was able to drag an update out of a Fatshark community Manager. The feature is no longer on their to-do list, despite their earlier announcement.

Originally posted by Fatshark:

RIght now being able to play solo with boths is not on our priority list, this could change in the future though!

https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/im-seeing-fewer-posts-asking-for-solo-mode-is-it-being-filtered-or-are-those-players-finally-giving-up/82940/10

Thanks, good to know, this game is out of my wishlist.

[D.A.R.K.]

Originally posted by M4st0d0n:

You can play Vermintide 2 offline on the consoles version. Since then Fatshark has been obsessed to make a successful live service at last that they're forcing online on all their games. This one doesnt even permit solo online, you only get a private lobby on a crappy amazon server with a group of two minimum.

Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, Vermintide, Vermintide 2, GTFO, all of those "Left 4 Dead-like" games allow us to play with BOTs offline, but this one. It's a common feature that should come with the game. Literally is harder to implement online coop than single player.

The developers went the hard way to make online coop but forgot the most common feature in almost all games... Single-Player. ♥♥♥♥ them.

[SaLaĐiN]

There is a solo mod on Nexusmods, BUT YOU WON'T GET any rewards no progression towards your rank, penances which kinda makes it pointless. Not sure about it working offline.

[D.A.R.K.]

Originally posted by 👊😎SaLaDiN😎👊:

There is a solo mod on Nexusmods, BUT YOU WON'T GET any rewards no progression towards your rank, penances which kinda makes it pointless. Not sure about it working offline.

Yeah, makes it pointless =/

[DeathRow]

its a coop game haha 😄

[D.A.R.K.]

Originally posted by DeathRow:

its a coop game haha 😄

Is Left 4 Dead 2 a coop game? Or Vermintide 2? How about GTFO?
Your argument is completely invalid.

[Weltraummann Sareth]

Originally posted by D.A.R.K.:

Originally posted by DeathRow:

its a coop game haha 😄

Is Left 4 Dead 2 a coop game? Or Vermintide 2? How about GTFO?
Your argument is completely invalid.

Those people are invalids alright.

[s0laris]

Originally posted by D.A.R.K.:

Originally posted by M4st0d0n:

You can play Vermintide 2 offline on the consoles version. Since then Fatshark has been obsessed to make a successful live service at last that they're forcing online on all their games. This one doesnt even permit solo online, you only get a private lobby on a crappy amazon server with a group of two minimum.

Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, Vermintide, Vermintide 2, GTFO, all of those "Left 4 Dead-like" games allow us to play with BOTs offline, but this one. It's a common feature that should come with the game. Literally is harder to implement online coop than single player.

The developers went the hard way to make online coop but forgot the most common feature in almost all games... Single-Player. ♥♥♥♥ them.

Its not a "common" feature. The games you mentioned are hosted on the player's machine. Darktide, on the other hand, is hosted on servers paid by Fatshark. And if they can chose between one player per server or 4 players per server, theyll choose the latter. They didnt forget anything, it was a deliberate decision to not have solo play in Darktide. Its not just the game's architecture, but the lack of bot support.

Its okay though, its a 4man coop, advertised as a 4man coop. Im not sure why they said in the beginning that there will be solo options, if that was a deliberate lie, but they had drastically different plans in the beginning before the whole backlash thing started.

[Weltraummann Sareth]

Originally posted by s0laris:

Originally posted by D.A.R.K.:

Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, Vermintide, Vermintide 2, GTFO, all of those "Left 4 Dead-like" games allow us to play with BOTs offline, but this one. It's a common feature that should come with the game. Literally is harder to implement online coop than single player.

The developers went the hard way to make online coop but forgot the most common feature in almost all games... Single-Player. ♥♥♥♥ them.

Its not a "common" feature. The games you mentioned are hosted on the player's machine. Darktide, on the other hand, is hosted on servers paid by Fatshark. And if they can chose between one player per server or 4 players per server, theyll choose the latter. They didnt forget anything, it was a deliberate decision to not have solo play in Darktide. Its not just the game's architecture, but the lack of bot support.

Its okay though, its a 4man coop, advertised as a 4man coop. Im not sure why they said in the beginning that there will be solo options, if that was a deliberate lie, but they had drastically different plans in the beginning before the whole backlash thing started.

"We’ve been working on an option to play exclusively in Solo Mode, where you will be hosting locally your own instance with bots. Because you will be hosting the AI and other game systems locally, this will increase performance cost. However, we continue to monitor and improve the performance where we can. Solo play is in its final stages of testing as we fix the last issues that remain. We aim to release this at Launch. If not, a patch shortly after that in December."

[s0laris]

Originally posted by Spaceman Sareth:

Originally posted by s0laris:

Its not a "common" feature. The games you mentioned are hosted on the player's machine. Darktide, on the other hand, is hosted on servers paid by Fatshark. And if they can chose between one player per server or 4 players per server, theyll choose the latter. They didnt forget anything, it was a deliberate decision to not have solo play in Darktide. Its not just the game's architecture, but the lack of bot support.

Its okay though, its a 4man coop, advertised as a 4man coop. Im not sure why they said in the beginning that there will be solo options, if that was a deliberate lie, but they had drastically different plans in the beginning before the whole backlash thing started.

"We’ve been working on an option to play exclusively in Solo Mode, where you will be hosting locally your own instance with bots. Because you will be hosting the AI and other game systems locally, this will increase performance cost. However, we continue to monitor and improve the performance where we can. Solo play is in its final stages of testing as we fix the last issues that remain. We aim to release this at Launch. If not, a patch shortly after that in December."

Read the whole comment before replying. Thanks.

"but they had drastically different plans in the beginning before the whole backlash thing started."

[SaLaĐiN]

Originally posted by s0laris:

Originally posted by D.A.R.K.:

Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, Vermintide, Vermintide 2, GTFO, all of those "Left 4 Dead-like" games allow us to play with BOTs offline, but this one. It's a common feature that should come with the game. Literally is harder to implement online coop than single player.

The developers went the hard way to make online coop but forgot the most common feature in almost all games... Single-Player. ♥♥♥♥ them.

Its not a "common" feature. The games you mentioned are hosted on the player's machine. Darktide, on the other hand, is hosted on servers paid by Fatshark. And if they can chose between one player per server or 4 players per server, theyll choose the latter. They didnt forget anything, it was a deliberate decision to not have solo play in Darktide. Its not just the game's architecture, but the lack of bot support.

Its okay though, its a 4man coop, advertised as a 4man coop. Im not sure why they said in the beginning that there will be solo options, if that was a deliberate lie, but they had drastically different plans in the beginning before the whole backlash thing started.

L4D1/2 singleplayer IS NOT BEING HOSTED by the computer, it is being RUN. Which are two different things.

You can CHOOSE TO HOST a MULTIPLAYER SESSION, be it coop, versus or other mp modes.

And yeah, solo/offline play is a standard in coop games, just the amount of games not having such feature could be count as per mille decimals starting with 0.00x.

[D.A.R.K.]

Originally posted by s0laris:

Its not a "common" feature..

This broke me.
It seems you don't know much about video game.

[Weltraummann Sareth]

Originally posted by s0laris:

Originally posted by Spaceman Sareth:

"We’ve been working on an option to play exclusively in Solo Mode, where you will be hosting locally your own instance with bots. Because you will be hosting the AI and other game systems locally, this will increase performance cost. However, we continue to monitor and improve the performance where we can. Solo play is in its final stages of testing as we fix the last issues that remain. We aim to release this at Launch. If not, a patch shortly after that in December."

Read the whole comment before replying. Thanks.

"but they had drastically different plans in the beginning before the whole backlash thing started."

You really believe they had different plans? Yeah, they probably thought people would fall over each other in awe because they demand so little money for such beautiful skins and that it's completly normal to release a finished game with "Feature comes later" signs ingame.

Companies are just getting used to it that they can get away with pretty much most things.

[DeathRow]

Originally posted by D.A.R.K.:

Originally posted by DeathRow:

its a coop game haha 😄

Is Left 4 Dead 2 a coop game? Or Vermintide 2? How about GTFO?
Your argument is completely invalid.

lol those are not coop games if you play them alone haha 🤣