is multiplayer in a working state yet?

[Hootin Harold]

i tried it maybe ~1 year ago with a friend and it was so buggy and unplayable, wondering if its mostly working now or if its still broken

[cos φ]

still broken! Fix it pls

[Ahroovi]

Problem with trying to add multiplayer in a game that it wasn't planned for in the first place. There's a LOT that goes into multiplayer, it's not just dropping another player ingame and syncing them up. You have to deal with tickrate for updating objects and players, everything has to be trafficked back and forth from player to server at some point. Everything needs replication across the client/s.
And much more than that.

[Hootin Harold]

Originally posted by Ahroovi:

Problem with trying to add multiplayer in a game that it wasn't planned for in the first place. There's a LOT that goes into multiplayer, it's not just dropping another player ingame and syncing them up. You have to deal with tickrate for updating objects and players, everything has to be trafficked back and forth from player to server at some point. Everything needs replication across the client/s.
And much more than that.

im aware its not an easy thing to implement, was just curious if the dev had figured it out yet

[Ahroovi]

If they did I'd imagine it would be available still. I wouldn't hold your breath for it though. It doesn't seem like it was planned out ahead of time, and with the jank and bugs ingame I doubt it would be a fun experience for long.

[Zajaka]

Originally posted by Hootin Harold:

i tried it maybe ~1 year ago with a friend and it was so buggy and unplayable, wondering if its mostly working now or if its still broken

Multiplayer has been removed for now, it might return one day.

[Viking]

So here is the situation right now
Multiplayer is not removed,
It takes a long time to load big saves (cant figure out how to send packets faster)
cars can freak out if both players are tinkering with them in the same time
desync can be issue however I've seen players having sessions of couple of hours without it.
So almost all MP games just sync positions of various gameobjects but here we have to sync a lot of things, like attaching parts to one another. how many bolts are tight. which bolts are tight, what is condition of part, if part is crashed that also has to be synced - , fluid levels, there is so much stuff that I am surprised that I got it working at all.
And the last thing - this has never been planned as a multiplayer game and that is not a priority at all.

[Hootin Harold]

Originally posted by Viking:

So here is the situation right now
Multiplayer is not removed,
It takes a long time to load big saves (cant figure out how to send packets faster)
cars can freak out if both players are tinkering with them in the same time
desync can be issue however I've seen players having sessions of couple of hours without it.
So almost all MP games just sync positions of various gameobjects but here we have to sync a lot of things, like attaching parts to one another. how many bolts are tight. which bolts are tight, what is condition of part, if part is crashed that also has to be synced - , fluid levels, there is so much stuff that I am surprised that I got it working at all.
And the last thing - this has never been planned as a multiplayer game and that is not a priority at all.

yeah ik its a complex thing to get working, its not like i have super high expectations
i was just curious if itd been figured out yet

[Viking]

Well it work a lot better now. some players claim they don't have problems at all (they know the few things to avoid like avoid working on same car at the same time)

[Hootin Harold]

Originally posted by Viking:

Well it work a lot better now. some players claim they don't have problems at all (they know the few things to avoid like avoid working on same car at the same time)

noted, ill try it again with him in a while and see how well it works. whenever the hell hes free

[Ahroovi]

I did find it's in the escape menu instead of a separate build now. But the ingame warnings are a pretty good indicator to steer away for now.

[PerfectK1773R]

How do. You join eachother

[Ahroovi]

Very carefully.