Co-op multiplayer

[Zibnewski]

Any thoughts of adding online co-op? It's the only thing holding me back from buying the game, looks great otherwise.

[Invader Zim]

It's not a racing game, you are trapped alone for the duration of the game, there is no multiplayer aspect.

[Anachronomalous]

...The entire point of the storyline is that it's you--the lone Breacher--and three other nerds squabbling over the intercom while you dodge random acts of LIM in an eerie environment.

If the devs wanted multiplayer, they would've included it.

[Neca]

There is a game on roblox called drive, its a copy of this but you can play with three other players

[joshua.selvan]

Originally posted by Anachronomalous:

...The entire point of the storyline is that it's you--the lone Breacher--and three other nerds squabbling over the intercom while you dodge random acts of LIM in an eerie environment.

If the devs wanted multiplayer, they would've included it.

Which is to say that the optimum way to play the game is to stream your screen to 3 friends over discord who criticise your every move :p

Pacific Drive, as a game, is pretty much a distributed obstacle course generator. This doesn't lend well into co-op as there is nothing for multiple players to co-operate on. If you being attacked by a flock of raging chickens in a game, there is inherent co-op potential in fighting the chickens. Your team can do things like split the chicken's attention, go to the aid of a team mate being overwhelmed by chickens or lead the chickens into a trap which a friend will detonate once you passed the danger zone. Combat in inherently good for co-op. Dealing with an obstacle course of stationary booby traps on a map has no inherent multiplayer potential - which means that every intended multiplayer interaction needs to be individually added in instead of naturally arising from the available generative interactions.

There are variations of the Pacific drive formula which would make for great multiplayer experiences (like a large truck full of players fleeing down an endless straight highway from an encroaching storm, efficiently stripping down the buildings they pass as they flee and defending and repairing the truck while its moving) but multiplayer setups are so different from the current base game that it would probably be more efficient to create a completely different game then add multiplayer to this one.

[NiketaS]

Originally posted by Zibnewski:

Any thoughts of adding online co-op? It's the only thing holding me back from buying the game, looks great otherwise.

WHY? Did Pacific Drive need a multiplayer?

[Permyack]

Co-op mode could make the game experience more fun and interesting, but to implement it, the optimization bar needs to be raised significantly, otherwise players who may be more or less satisfied with everything now will shift to the central category, the central category will shift to players whose FPS leaves much to be desired (Just low FPS), as well as their configuration, and players who are already not very sweet will not be able to afford it at all.
Yes, it's all pretty rough, but this game is not a benchmark of good optimization.

In theory, you can come up with a cooperative mode, where several players will use the same vehicle (This is the LEAST forgiving for performance). But it is worth replacing the vehicle itself, or trying to somehow adapt the existing one.

[Permyack]

Originally posted by Onikage:

Originally posted by Zibnewski:

Any thoughts of adding online co-op? It's the only thing holding me back from buying the game, looks great otherwise.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ why does every well-made SOLO game always have to have you "Make it MP or I won't buy it!" children? The entire CONCEPT of the game is you're alone, that's part of what makes it a challenge. I'm sure there'll eventually be mods or something for you ridiculous kids but in the meantime, just know there's a ton of entitled toxic folk like you and if they devs wanted your money, they'd have made it MP already. Now how about you make sure that, when searching for new games to play, that they're NOT SP only.

That's a pretty harsh and rude answer. Although I understand the idea behind the comment - You shouldn't give up on a game just because it's single player. Although it is also the player's right to prefer multiplayer and cooperative games, as it gives a completely different experience.
To be fair, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is as much a single-player project as various RPGs like Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout, but the community has shown and still shows some interest in multiplayer mode in all of them.
Somewhere they've even managed to succeed

[Stimmed]

I think it's a great idea, AND - what's not to cooperate on?? Multiplayer crossed my mind within the first couple of hours. Only puzzling thing was *where would your friend sit? Then that made me think - caravan type vehicle from same era

[Zibnewski]

Originally posted by Onikage:

Originally posted by Zibnewski:

Any thoughts of adding online co-op? It's the only thing holding me back from buying the game, looks great otherwise.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ why does every well-made SOLO game always have to have you "Make it MP or I won't buy it!" children? The entire CONCEPT of the game is you're alone, that's part of what makes it a challenge. I'm sure there'll eventually be mods or something for you ridiculous kids but in the meantime, just know there's a ton of entitled toxic folk like you and if they devs wanted your money, they'd have made it MP already. Now how about you make sure that, when searching for new games to play, that they're NOT SP only.

I get your criticism. But I'm just saying it like it is. I play games to socialize together with friends, and while the idea of this game sounds great I won't spend time on it by myself. I think there are others with the same mindset and even though the dev deem it impossible to add it for the game, it might be something to keep in mind for a future sequel. Having the conversation is great, for both us and the dev.

[Zibnewski]

Originally posted by Onikage:

Originally posted by Zibnewski:

I get your criticism. But I'm just saying it like it is. I play games to socialize together with friends, and while the idea of this game sounds great I won't spend time on it by myself. I think there are others with the same mindset and even though the dev deem it impossible to add it for the game, it might be something to keep in mind for a future sequel. Having the conversation is great, for both us and the dev.

You're still entitled and ignorant. Asking for a mode for a game BEFORE buying it and supporting the Dev is the equivalent of saying "Make some changes for me and then maybe you'll get my money". That's not how it works if you're not a selfish child.
As long as people like you say "Add MP or no money for you" I'll gladly call you out and hopefully you'll stop doing it. Now go search some other Single Player Only games and demand MP from them too.

OH and be sure to go to Restaurants and tell them they need to add items to the menu you want before you eat there. And thank you for the entertainment of being a spoiled child with zero self awareness lol

You demand a change from me but I am not allowed to suggest a change for the game? I coudnt care less what you want tbh.

I wish the dev all the best and I'll come back when it suits me, as a consumer and customer.

[Kyle]

Going to "You're entitled, ignorant and DEMANDING changes" from 'Any thoughts for x feature? It's holding me back from getting the game.' is wild. o(￣┰￣*)ゞ

This is like the most calm inquiry if there are plans to add something I've read in awhile.

[Kyle]

Originally posted by Onikage:

Oh and before you go defending a child like OP, I suggest you check their post history:

This is a kid who just goes over and over to great SP-ONLY games and tells them to add a mode that isn't advertised. I told them to go do what they have been doing and "demand" mp from other devs, which I'd say they clearly have done with other devs.

EDIT: Oh and to be clear, they only have a page and a half of post history to see that. That took me less than 2 minutes to copy/paste and less than 30 seconds to find in the first place.

Honestly, I'm struggling to understand how you can look at their post history and interpret it in such a horrible way. I don't think their history is relevant to this post, but even so, the majority (including the ones you posted) are calm and casual inquiries.

'We want X!', 'It looks cool, any plans?', 'It looks great, but I only want to play it in multiplayer.', how do you see these few posts spanning multiple years as entitled?

The only ones I could understand being taken negatively are the few like 'I'm not buying unless it's co-op', but even then it's mild at best - it's not like he's baiting, arguing or even trying to campaign the developers to change it.

Meanwhile, I'm looking at your posts here, it's full of you losing your mind, name calling them with several different words, proclaiming their entitlement and immaturity simply over one sentence in the OP as you trawl through their post history for things to attack them with.

I understand that you're probably angry with people who actually demand MP, but it feels like you're missing the mark here, at least to me. So in the same way you don't mind calling out stuff, I don't mind pointing out this type of horrible behavior either.

[Aleuvian]

Originally posted by Onikage:

As is obvious from your pathetic post history, keep going to other SP Only games and keep asking for MP. I didn't pull that out of nowhere, it's what YOU actually do constantly.
I didn't ask you to change anything lol and don't blame the language barrier on that.
Buy the game and see if you actually like the concept/mechanics.
Saying Multiplayer is a REQUIREMENT to even enjoy a game is pathetic and sad.

This is the saddest and most pathetic thing I've seen someone post and I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ post long-form lore explanations and guides for niche games. You're digging into a person's post history to shame them for asking if a game might receive a major feature they want when adding said feature does not detract from the game, but rather detracts from the way YOU want other people to experience the game.

You are not an arbiter of the 'right way' to play a game. There are a ton of single player games I like that I would love even more in multiplayer. For example, Skyrim or Hardspace: Shipbreaker would be amazing to play with my friends, but I can't because those are singleplayer only experiences.

Is it bad that those are singleplayer only games? No. In fact, many games like the Outer Wilds are best played in singleplayer both because the style of game is technically impossible to recreate in multiplayer and because the core game is ruined by multiplayer, but I'd argue this is not the case for something like Pacific Drive.

At the end of the day, there is an incredibly unfortunate lack of cooperatively focused multiplayer games and competitive PvP is just not appealing to a lot of people due to either toxicity or cheating running rampant. Things like Helldivers 2 are successful because you can jump in and play them with your friends without worrying about it being a competitive slugfest where you aren't having fun because the matchmaker is putting you into stomp after stomp of a match.

[Aleuvian]

Originally posted by Onikage:

Also it almost sounded at the end there like you wanted to get PVP into Pacific Drive, but that's such a dumb idea I don't want to quote it and repeat it so no one else's brains needs to see it again.

What are you smoking that you think that's where that was going? That was a short commentary on the lack of COOPERATIVE multiplayer games in the modern market when everything is a competitive slop-fest. Not only are you hilariously inept at your own analyses of other people's intent and messages, but you clearly need to take some basic language structure courses.

Here are some useful resources to get your started:
A tutorial on diagramming a sentence.[www.masterclass.com]
The same, but with pictures.
A simple sentence tutorial.

I wish you the best of luck into your very late start into higher reasoning and basic literature, and I hope your journey in education will also cure you of your insufferable ego.

[Kyle]

Originally posted by Onikage:

Got it. If you see someone enjoying talking down to a childish doofus and think that's "Losing their mind" then I don't know what to tell you.

I don't know what to tell you either, is there a world where someone abruptly appears to hurl abuses and go on a rant about a group of people as their first post is something other than an outburst or having 'lost their mind'?

Originally posted by Onikage:

But since I know you're gonna take all this and make it sound like I'm being super mean to you now probably, just don't bother replying at all.

o(￣┰￣*)ゞHonestly usually I get really stressed out during arguments, but for this one I feel fine, which is strange.

I did have a bit more here, but since all the posts were deleted, I shrunk it to reduce the space. Thanks for the argument though.