How well is coop mod works for this game?

[Killer0pro]

Can u enjoy game and progress with friend with no issues?

[dreamrider]

Reports are you can enjoy it OK.
No issues - Nope. It isn't a finished product yet.
AFAIHH, you cannot finish the game story within Nitrox yet.

[Killer0pro]

Originally posted by dreamrider:

Reports are you can enjoy it OK.
No issues - Nope. It isn't a finished product yet.
AFAIHH, you cannot finish the game story within Nitrox yet.

Is it sorta like dying light 1 cant finish story, where player has to do final mission solo? Or how much story can u progress together?

[Amanoob105]

It's fairly common knowledge around here (unless something changed when I wasn't looking) that the MP mod for this game, due to effectively trying for force a square peg though the round hole, is very buggy.
So it's not a case if "if" you have an issue, but "when".

But we also know that over all it does work. So when I say 'you' I do mean the both of you and your friend.

[Amanoob105]

Originally posted by Killer0pro:

Is it sorta like dying light 1 cant finish story, where player has to do final mission solo? Or how much story can u progress together?

For this you would likely be better off looking for answers in a modding comment section and/or on the site you got the mod from.
Most of us on here are happy playing this game solo.

[Killer0pro]

Is someone who played in solo and coop, would u miss out on alot game has to offer doing coop as your first play?

[Amanoob105]

Originally posted by Killer0pro:

Is someone who played in solo and coop, would u miss out on alot game has to offer doing coop as your first play?

Short answer, yes. The game is built around the idea that you are alone on the planet. Everything from he odd throwaway jokes to the big experiences.

Long answer, depends very heavily on how much you care about that "first time" experience, which is a thing pretty much all of us on this forum wish we could wipe from our memory and experience all over again from scratch with no idea of what we are going to run into.

If you want me to go into detail on any of this, that will very quickly stray into *spoiler* territory.

[Dirak2012]

I imagine that experiencing the game for the first time with coop would be like watching a horror movie in your phone in the middle of the day.
You could do it, but why?

[admiral1018]

Originally posted by Killer0pro:

Is someone who played in solo and coop, would u miss out on alot game has to offer doing coop as your first play?

Depends on what part of this game you are interested in. It's designed as a lone survival experience where you are by yourself on an alien world. That experience will certainly be ruined, as will the story itself since you can't progress.

However, if you just want the underwater Minecraft part of this and don't care much about the story, the coop mod will generally be fine.

[QueenPixxa]

As a first run I'd say absolutley not! You really need to exprience the game the way it was intended, before adding a mod that makes Subnautica something else. You would be very confused and probably bored as well.

[FranqC11]

Originally posted by QueenPixxa:

As a first run I'd say absolutley not! You really need to exprience the game the way it was intended, before adding a mod that makes Subnautica something else. You would be very confused and probably bored as well.

subnautica was actually initially thought out to be a coop experience but the mode had to be cut for "development time issues"

[Amanoob105]

Originally posted by FranqC11:

Originally posted by QueenPixxa:

As a first run I'd say absolutley not! You really need to exprience the game the way it was intended, before adding a mod that makes Subnautica something else. You would be very confused and probably bored as well.

subnautica was actually initially thought out to be a coop experience but the mode had to be cut for "development time issues"

This is complete nonsense.

Whether a game is single or coop is one of those thing that has to be decided right back before any coding can be started.
We know the devs made a conscious choice to go down a single player path. If it had been "always meant to be" then the MP mod wouldn't have been nearly so hard to get working.

Plus as an indie game the only time limit for development were those set by the devs themselves.

[MycroftCanadaNS]

Since the dev released the living large update the latest Nitrox mod no longer works however you can revert back to a legacy build before the dev killed the online mod.

Epic users can't go back to a legacy build so if your friend has the epic version they are out of luck.

The dev for the mod is working on 2.0 but they don't have a release date.

Sad thing is leave it to dev's to go the lazy route like this dev for subnautica where it takes a modder to do what the dev thought even said was impossible to do which is why I no longer supported the developer of subnautica, and never bought their second pile of poo.

I only buy games from developers I can trust, and this dev isn't one of those developers.

[dreamrider]

It wasn't "lazy". The concept that they settled on was for a solo game.
That is the story they wanted to tell, the atmosphere they wanted to create, and the style of gameplay they thought fit best.

It is clearly so marked.

If you didn't want a solo game to start with, you should have invested your time in a different game, rather than trying to shame-blame the dev team...for doing what they intended to do, and doing it well.

[deepdive0777]

I would never have bothered to play this game if it was coop. It was advertised as a survival game and took them at their word. Coop games are a dime a dozen and if i want coop plenty of titles to choose from.

[Sputnik]

Just in case anyone hasn't worked it out, this particular game is a riff on the Robinson Crusoe castaway survival story (the latest of a very long line of them). Sure you could hammer it into a multiplayer game, but why trash the whole reason for it existing in the first place?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2896251741