8-player mode

[Sawtaytoes]

Any plans on adding an 8-player local mode or a 4 and 4 online multiplayer mode?

I play a lot of multiplayer games these days and am finding it harder and harder to find time or groups to play 4-player local. I almost always have 5 or more people and amazing games like SpeedRunners get put on the sidelines for games like BlazeRush, Knight Squad, A Fistful of Gun, and Gang Beasts.

This is happening a lot and every time I see 4 player games on Steam these days, I think about how old they feel when I'm having an abundance of people wanting to play at parties.

It'd be fantastic, at least for me, if the game natively supported the ability to have 8 players at once.

[Sunshine]

good idea

[Khmera]

I've heard that the game cannot handle any more than 4 players.

[Plastic Shitlord]

They would have to recode all the game, which is really hard

[Theos 🪐]

The game can't handle more than 4 players.

[Sunshine]

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[Idiota125]

it here: https://www.moddb.com/mods/speedrunners-multiplayer-plus/downloads/speedrunners-multiplayer-plus-windows

[Sawtaytoes]

This says you can do 16 slots for players, but only 4 players at a time still.

Even 5-6 players would be great because you might have a few extra folks over. We're not being so competitive that a 4-max number of players is enough.

8 players would be crazy on-screen action, but it would still be fun.

[Idiota125]

Originally posted by Sawtaytoes:

This says you can do 16 slots for players, but only 4 players at a time still.

Even 5-6 players would be great because you might have a few extra folks over. We're not being so competitive that a 4-max number of players is enough.

8 players would be crazy on-screen action, but it would still be fun.

You think there can only play 4-players at the same time? - No, you can see from the video on that website, there could be up to 16 players. Lobbies use "slot pages", there are only 4-slot on page, (and 4 pages means 4 x 4 = 16) and it's easy to use. I already tested and got work 8 controllers instantly in the same game at the same time. It's amazing!

[Sawtaytoes]

8 controllers locally on the same PC at the same time?

[Idiota125]

Yes. Please try it.

[LivesForever]

Originally posted by Idiota125:

Yes. Please try it.

Hi, I just tried the 8 player mod for Speedrunners, but I couldn't get the game to recognize more than 4 controllers for local multiplayer. Were you able to get that working?

[TheComplexByte]

Who has more than 3 friends?

[Idiota125]

Originally posted by LivesForever:

Originally posted by Idiota125:

Yes. Please try it.

Hi, I just tried the 8 player mod for Speedrunners, but I couldn't get the game to recognize more than 4 controllers for local multiplayer. Were you able to get that working?

Did you follow the instructions:

"How to Install
Extract the ZIP File
First, download the mod from this page and extract it into any directory of your choosing.

Copy the Game Content
The game's assets, such as animations, images, and audio, make up about 650MB and have therefore been omitted from the ZIP file. We NEED them though. So, let's copy some directories.

You're probably using Steam to launch SpeedRunners, so this step will be pretty straightforward: In your Steam library, select SpeedRunners and click on the "Manage" button with the cog icon. By clicking Manage > Browse local files, the base game directory will open up.

In the base game directory, you should find a directory called Content. If you're using workshop items, there may also be a WorkshopContent directory there. Copy the content directories right into your modded SpeedRunners directory, so that SpeedRunners.exe and Content are at the same place."

NOTE:
I think I just deleted all the others files than WorkshopContent and Content files from the base game directory and copied all mod content from the mod folder to the base game directory. Launch from Steam.

We used to play with 4 PS4 controllers and 4 Xbox controllers. 8 Xbox controllers should work too. Also 8 PS4 controllers should work. Steam input should be on. All these information you can check here: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/11707935-More-Than-4-Local-Multiplayer/list/121103/

Remember there is 4 pages in the lobby. You can see only 4 players at the same time, 4+ players are on the next page.