Multiplayer Or Coop

[Robocon1a]

Before you release the full game, please consider making it a multiplayer or a coop game, this game has so much potential if it was multiplayer.

[Myth E Bear]

i second this.

[Edward Forqueez]

i third this

[Blamass]

I fourth this

[FeelinPeachy]

Never going to happen over the network, physics games like this are not easily networkable. Only way this could ever happen without massive game-play changes or physics reductions would be if the game was running solely on a server (no clients) and streamed to all players, which would induce lots of latency....think Google Stadia.

In typical multiplayer games, each player has an instance of the game running on their machine, all talking to a server which is also running an instance of a game and is treated as the authority. This means the game can stay responsive on your end, since your machine is running a game locally. However, if there's a discrepancy between your game instance and the servers, you get corrected (often in the form of rubber banding). Unfortunately, with physics heavy games with lots of complex non-deterministic interactions, with pcs and servers all running at different frame-rates and with packet loss and latency, there's no real way to keep everything in sync. You'd be seeing one thing, the server would be seeing something else, and the other players would also be seeing other things, making combat near impossible with all the corrections constantly happening.

Could be possible to do local multiplayer though, or steams weird multiplayer support where the game is running on one players machine and streamed to another....

[Felky]

I choose to ignore every logical explanation and fifth this because it would be giga fun

[Boxfiller]

What do you mean bro???.
It already is multiplayer.