How is the multiplayer/co op?

[Mr.Death]

Anybody got any experience with it? Are there even players online to play with?

[War Monk]

Tried multiplayer. I was not able to save any progress when I started my own public server. Meaning coop players my friends can't save progress so you always start anew. That's a real problem and game breaker. Game is fun for being free but only in single player can you save. Developer commented that servers save automatically. NOT SO. At least I can't see how to do that. If anyone knows otherwise would be happy to hear how to save in multiplayer

[Welch's Grape Ghost]

My MP session auto saved and manually saved just fine

[Mr.Death]

Originally posted by Tweak Bob:

My MP session auto saved and manually saved just fine

Are there other players running about?

[( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)]

Originally posted by Mr.Death:

Originally posted by Tweak Bob:

My MP session auto saved and manually saved just fine

Are there other players running about?

Only if they join the world lol...

[Mr.Death]

Originally posted by Howard HiNC:

Originally posted by Mr.Death:

Are there other players running about?

Only if they join the world lol...

In your experience do you every play with others or see anyone else online to play with?

[maeharaprojekt]

A LOT of features are being worked on or have yet to be added. Multiplayer is not guaranteed to be stable, so if you were expecting there to be a large MP community with stable servers everywhere, you should wait several months (maybe even longer).

From our perspective, consider Vein to be in an early alpha state. There two people working on the game and it is best to assume that they have lives outside of working on it.

As best as I have been able to figure out, it is currently a self-funded project.

The whole reason why it's a demo is that the devs feel it's unfair to ask for money for their project until they get it to a point that they can comfortably label it as "Early Access."

[War Monk]

So please clarify for me on multiplayer saves. When you re create the server you started you save your progress. Then after shutting down VEIN then later start a new multiplayer server your character re spawns with same inventory? And friends who rejoin your same named server get their inventory back as well? In my experience this does not happen. MY multiplayer server saves my inventory on exit but it only gets reapplied to me when I re-enter and it only gets reapplied in a single player game. If I restart my multiplayer server I have to start a new character. Again what am I missing?

[Black Rain]

Hard to find friends oooooooooooof!

[Form]

To clarify, when you go back to multiplayer after quitting it, that makes A NEW CHARACTER.
To continue a multiplayer save, go to load game, click multiplayer YES, then select the save you want to load. This also allows the same people who were in the game with you to retain their inventories.

Also, multiplayer is kind of buggy, works like 90%. But we've had our base reset like 3x, and desyncs happen, invisible cars, and a bunch of other stuff. Still great fun, but not like, let's invest a ton of time into our base kind of fun, yet.

[AirborneMuffins]

after an update, you'll have about a 48 hr period to find populated servers to play on before everyone scatters again.