Multiplayer PLEASE ION LANDS!

[🥤ʑ ɨ ł 🌊 ✡🔯☪ bȍgъdȃrъ 👌]

At least give us co-op this time around, but if its possible a MMO would make this game way better IMO.

[Retrogon]

MMO? lol I hope the devs stay as far away from this idea as possible. That being said, I wouldn't mind optional co-op with a friend.

[🥤ʑ ɨ ł 🌊 ✡🔯☪ bȍgъdȃrъ 👌]

Originally posted by Astroman:

MMO? lol I hope the devs stay as far away from this idea as possible. That being said, I wouldn't mind optional co-op with a friend.

So how many hours do you have in Cloudpunk?

You can be a loner playing pretend with or without your friends in Nivalis for less than 24h before you leave the game behind for another. I want to see how people interact with the game. Not be in solitude; posting clips/photos/essays on external sites. I would like a world that feels alive. I would like to interact with the creativity, imagination, and experiences in-game with a community of players. I want to jump into Nivalis and question what will happen today in the community. Instead of predetermined algorithms guiding me to the same outcomes, which will only entertain the 1st couple playthroughs.

But thats my opinion, and knowing ION LANDS you dont have to worry about it since they aren't inclined to take such a epic venture. So you can be at peace knowing you'll get to play Nivalis for 12h all by yourself (and maybe a few viewers if streaming).

[toot]

I hope it is obvious for the "Ion lands studio heads" that MP in the Cloudpunk environment is not only fun for players, it will fit the Nivalis concept perfect and make the game better.

It could be the difference where all the effort made to enjoy all the beauty this studio creates is from moderate into legendary. Because it will be played with others. And accidently the whole studio team will be milionairs, because they deserve it!

Cheers

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[leathers14]

People ask for multiplayer in pretty much every game nowadays but the fact is that unless the game was built from the ground up for multiplayer, the game will take a significant overhaul to do so. Most of the time if the developer plans to add multiplayer later to a game it extends the development time 6-12 months, if not more. Another 6-12 months of development is a huge cost for a small studio to incur and the more staff involved the worse the expense. This isn't mentioning the performance/optimizations issues that come with dealing with multiple players in a world where a ton of npcs and traffic are moving around.

They haven't advertised it multiplayer so unless this game does really, really well I would not expect it later down the line. Just because a game has multiplayer does not mean that it will justify the expense of adding it. I'm not trying to be mean, just trying to keep people from expecting too much.

A multiplayer Nivalis experience might be a good idea at some point, but I would not expect it in their next product.

[babycat]

Originally posted by 🥤ƶчК👌:

But thats my opinion, and knowing ION LANDS you dont have to worry about it since they aren't inclined to take such a epic venture. So you can be at peace knowing you'll get to play Nivalis for 12h all by yourself (and maybe a few viewers if streaming).

This is such a weird take lmao. Not all media needs to be endlessly reusable - Die Hard is a fun action movie, but if you watch it 30 times back-to-back it's gonna lose some of its luster. Similarly, I'm having a great time with Cloudpunk even if I don't think I'll ever replay it. If Nivalis ends up being a fun little 10-20 hour motif of life in a cyberpunk dystopia, I'll have gotten my money's worth.

For the record, multiplayer would be fine. Probably even fun! But I don't think it makes sense to judge a piece of media based on the length of time you can engage with it.

[KiddingJust]

can we get a multiplayer please, would really have the city feel way more alive

[MontroseChloe]

My hope is that this game will have some co-op and as they grow, some years down the road, they can make it a MMO. - MMO's take a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE amount of work. They would need to significantly expand. Adding content and features and ideas over time leading up to a MMO would be the way I think. They can do SO much with this world they have built.