Offline Mode

[Quality]

How do i play offline only? Do i have to change something at my options, just got the game couple hours ago. Ty for the help...

[Seamus]

The game defaults to a solo offline lobby.

You have to manually create an online lobby.

[Kuoga]

Originally posted by TheunknownM:

How do i play offline only? Do i have to change something at my options, just got the game couple hours ago. Ty for the help...

Iirc, by default when you log into the game, you're already in offline mode. To activate online mode, you need to explicitly visit the courier cats (Senri the Mailman, the cat standing on the red box at the center of the village) to find/create online lobbies or use join requests to instantly join public hunts in Gathering Hub so you don't need to worry about people randomly joining your hunts. As long as you don't touch the "Play Online" option at the couriers and create Hub hunts without join requests, you're totally solo. Village quests are solo-only too.

[Quality]

Originally posted by Seamus:

The game defaults to a solo offline lobby.

You have to manually create an online lobby.

ah nice, ty..

[Greb]

Yeah like Seamus said. You always begin in an offline lobby (which allows you to use two Buddies etc) and you have to purposefully visit that weird mailman Palico to enter an online lobby of your own, which will also make you only able to use one Buddy even if you're in the lobby alone and do quests alone etc.

It's pretty simple. I think (not 100% sure) that you can still send join requests on quests you host even if you're not in an online lobby, so it's not "true" offline mode, but don't quote me on that. For all intents and purposes, being outside of a lobby is functionally offline / singleplayer mode, though.