Potential for future update with multiplayer ?

[Hops]

Found out about this game today, gotta say.. its gets me very excited seeing gameplay.

Gives me hope to fill the Forager sized hole left in my heart, and some.
I know its a big undertaking, but if there's plans to add multiplayer at any point in the games life-cycle, it will be a must buy from me.

I look forward to seeing where this game goes :)

[returnONE]

I'm glad the game got you interested!
Multiplayer initially is not on the plans. It'd require the effort of basically remaking the game from scratch, so it's a hard one.

[Desolator]

Shame, would've been a nice relaxing game to play with friends. Really missing a game like this to play together

[Rudolf Fischer]

Multiplayer versus or coop would be great with 2-4 players. We are always searching for games like this with multiplayer-mode. We don´t like to play SP at all.

[DCI_Benway]

Everything can't be multiplayer. Game looks great as-is and the demos were a blast.

[sunfire]

Coding netcode is a lot of work and this is a 3-man team. I'm fine with it just being a singleplayer game.

[Rukio]

I'll add on to the interest of multiplayer. If a game wasn't made with it in mind it's a super hard addition.

I know some other slice of life exploration games mentioned they wished they developed with only SP in mind and they wished they bit the bullet and did MP from the beginning.

Something like this is super cool and would be fun to play with a friend or two. Setting up a base and exploring. Hope it stays considered!

[Mr. Fibble]

Games like this are either solo with balance to suit or around multiplayer at which point the balance for solo just becomes a tedious grindfest since the balancing usually means inflating the resource costs to compensate for multiple folk gathering.

Just compare the cost of a basic shelter in subnautica and a similar structure in something like ark.

[Rudolf Fischer]

Just double the costs for 2 players an d tripple them for 3 players, etc.

[Maluszek89]

Originally posted by returnONE:

I'm glad the game got you interested!
Multiplayer initially is not on the plans. It'd require the effort of basically remaking the game from scratch, so it's a hard one.

sad to hear that. meaby do some coop dlc or something?? even shared screen + steam remote play will be good option :)

[Mr. Fibble]

Did you deliberately choose to not read the bit where they said remake the game from scratch?

[Mal Function]

never understood why people want a game about automating away half the tasks to be multiplayer and reduce the amount they already do in the game by half or more.

Plus its a lot harder to balance between a multiplayer game and single player, make the boss encounters balanced for a single player and a fighter bot with upgrades, and its too simple for multiple players and their bots... balance it for multiplayer, and it becomes either annoying or too hard for single player... in between and both lose out,

[Mr. Fibble]

Small aside, you can also use the different creatures in boss fights. Cloned or pokeballed just get a stack and set them loose.

[Rudolf Fischer]

Originally posted by Mal Function:

never understood why people want a game about automating away half the tasks to be multiplayer and reduce the amount they already do in the game by half or more.

I can understand why people play such games in sp. But i dont like to. I only play such games in mp. I wan´t to have times with my friends and family. We are talking about the game, presenting our builds, and talking about completely other reallife things. We are planning together ingame-things, too. As a social beeing, talking to us and experiencing the thing together is a huge fun for us.

Originally posted by Mal Function:

Plus its a lot harder to balance between a multiplayer game and single player, make the boss encounters balanced for a single player and a fighter bot with upgrades, and its too simple for multiple players and their bots... balance it for multiplayer, and it becomes either annoying or too hard for single player... in between and both lose out,

Sure it is harder to balance. But you can. F.e. you could change hp or speed or damage oder stunds as simple things. I could live with meh balanced mp-boosfights and let the fights be good for sp.

[Herozen]

giving this game multiplayer would probably shut up the idiots who keep parroting "it's a forager clone kek"