Co-Op release Date?

[Coldfang]

Anyone have info on a possible release date for Co-op? Been eagerly awaiting it to play with friends, kinda bummed that it doesn't exist yet.

[Nekogod]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Coldfang:

Anyone have info on a possible release date for Co-op? Been eagerly awaiting it to play with friends, kinda bummed that it doesn't exist yet.

They've said they have no plans for multiplayer currently. It'll likely never have official co-op

[josmith7]

Though there is a multiplayer mod called Nebula.
https://thunderstore.io/c/dyson-sphere-program/p/nebula/NebulaMultiplayerMod/

Amusingly the team maintaining that mod is reportedly over 10 times the size of the development team for the base game. :D

I haven't played the mod personally but some folks here have said good things about it (while admitting it sometimes has bugs or glitches). But if you want co-op multiplayer that's likely the best you're going to get

[LuxMiz]

I've played with the mod and it's crazy how a mod can do so well adding MP and very rarely have desyncs that can be fixed by rehosting. The only issue with the mod is the need for the host to port forward or use other things that does similar, other than that it's very easy to setup.

Just need the r2modman and search for the Nebula MP package and press launch with mods(after having launched the game once).

[Ashfal]

Mod works incredible well for co-op/mp! Tbf they should just hire them to implement it into the game for real.

[Nekogod]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Ashfal:

Mod works incredible well for co-op/mp! Tbf they should just hire them to implement it into the game for real.

That wouldn't be a good financial decision, increasing their staff costs by more than 1000% to implement a feature that isn't even really needed

[Shiroe]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Ashfal:

Mod works incredible well for co-op/mp! Tbf they should just hire them to implement it into the game for real.

Nah, the multiplayer mod is seen as fine _because_ it's a free/volunteer run thing; it probably does things at too surface level to be used as base game multiplayer.
Say there's a white science cube on a belt and 2 players pick it up at the exact same moment, what's the result? You probably don't want there to be 2 players each holding a white science cube then, nor that the player closest to the game host (lowest ping) always wins that, so essentially you want every item/building/etc at the core of the game to be aware that they can be manipulated by multiple players at the same time and how to handle that case.
(A one-person webshop can get away with sending an "oops, I had stock of 1 of that item, but 2 go ordered, so I need to cancel one" e-mail, while OTOH Amazon needs to automatically handle such a case at the latest at the order completion button press.)

[Dragonmaster]

Multiplayer is not planned was part of the base game per dev sources. Use the mod if you want multiplayer. Dev group is very small and I rather see content first befor multiplayer