MP fixed yet?

[WOLFHORS3]

So i was really excited to hear they released a real co-op mode. I also heard that it was riddled with bugs and glitches. I haven't seen much info from the devs but I might have just missed it. Has it gotten any better and have the devs mentioned, answered, responded or given any info on when it would would be patched or fixed? Or are we just waiting to see what happens?

[tatertots]

The devs havent really said anything about the steam version but have done multiple updates for xbox and playstation. They tried to fix some bugs for xbox and play station but after about 24 hours the bugs were back. Who knows how long its gunna take to fix the pc version.

[WOLFHORS3]

thanks

[SourceSeeker]

Yeah, thanks for the inofficial news and for asking and answering!

[Graves]

What bugs ? I have been playing on pc MP with a friend for over a week now and it has been fine. I have not seen any bugs. Not a fan of this water still having to use palms and food not giving you some water back but , thats my only two complaints.

[WOLFHORS3]

@graves Are your crate shelves on your raft correctly? I'll give MP a try. If your not having problems maybe I won't either. I just saw a ton of posts about MP being unplayable.

[Wolvyreen]

Yes, I just spent the afternoon with my 2 boys trying to play MP. What a total and utter MESS it was!!

So many glitches and bugs.
1. Sometimes our weapons would disappear out of our hands.
2. Sometimes the other player was walking INSIDE the floor or under the ground
3. Unable to place structures AT ALL while building while the other player could place the exact same structure without issue.
4. At one point we wanted to move the savepoint shelter and we destroyed it BEFORE saving first only to find we were completely unable to place the shelter down again because the game refused ANY of us to rebuild the shelter so we lost all our progress because we couldn't save again.
5. Disappearing mobs on one players screen and yet the other player could still SEE the mob.
6. Duplication of items when dropping them and then the other player picking it up.
7. Sudden disconnects without any reason.

I could go on and on.

Multiplayer is just unplayable at this stage. What a shame! I love SD but this is just ridiculous. feels SOO rushed.

[ShadowFox]

I cant even play without disconnecting and this is on the free to play edition on epic store we got

[HVAC999]

me and my friend play co op a few times a week. not everyday. he is the host. i join his server. i get disconnected about every hour or so. we can deal with that until they fix the bugs. when you have to enter a code to join an online MP game. it always self deletes. you just have to copy from chat window and click enter code and it should populate. we did manage to work around that issue of the code being entered in and just going away and having to enter the code 45 times. ( exaggeration) today was horrible. it took like 10 mins for anything to load. if i woould message him on steam it would cause him to lag. we both have ryzen amd laptops. the hardware is not an issue. disconnect as soon as the game loads up. just a bunch of weird stuff.. constant lag and disconnect issues are very prevalent

[BlackBeltPanda]

Originally posted by Graves:

What bugs ? I have been playing on pc MP with a friend for over a week now and it has been fine. I have not seen any bugs. Not a fan of this water still having to use palms and food not giving you some water back but , thats my only two complaints.

You are very lucky, then, and in the vast minority here. Almost everyone playing co-op is dealing with large amounts of bugs. It's practically unplayable for me; wife and I put about 18 hours into multiplayer and it's just been a horrible experience.

[WOLFHORS3]

So I went ahead and played MP with my son, we've played several hours in 2 sessions. I have not had any game breaking bugs or crashes yet. He was under the ground a couple of times and some sync issues where we couldn't see things the other could. We had the duplication bug once. other than that, we had no issues and an enjoyable time with the game.
Thanks @graves for talking me into it. This is on PC BTW and it was only the 2 of us. Are the people having trouble mostly consoles?

[Wolvyreen]

Originally posted by WOLFHORS3:

So I went ahead and played MP with my son, we've played several hours in 2 sessions. I have not had any game breaking bugs or crashes yet. He was under the ground a couple of times and some sync issues where we couldn't see things the other could. We had the duplication bug once. other than that, we had no issues and an enjoyable time with the game.
Thanks @graves for talking me into it. This is on PC BTW and it was only the 2 of us. Are the people having trouble mostly consoles?

So the troubles you had that you listed are:

1. Other player under the ground
2. Sync issues where items disappear (and this probably on a local lan)
3. Duplication of items

and you say this is an acceptable experience when you're only playing with 2 players????

Good grief man!

If this is the level of acceptance that the community has come to accept from multiplayer games then I am VERY worried about the future of SD.

[WOLFHORS3]

@wolvyreen I'm sorry you misunderstood (luv the name btw) I never said it was acceptable and it isn't. I would not play MP at all except my 9 yr old has been wanting to play and I wanted to make sure we weren't going to play something he wouldn't enjoy. He had fun.
But yeah it needs fixing bad. And the level of "bugs" people accept today is "unacceptable.
But gamers get what they deserve. The majority preorder games, buy Madden over and over again, continually make excuses for "early access" games and allow game companies to stick their hand in their pocket eternally. It's appalling. If gamers stopped preordering and only bought games after seeing gameplay and reviews all this would stop.
20 years ago, no game company would dream of releasing a game without review copies being sent to reviewers first. It would be the kiss of death. The first sign that a game sucked was no one was allowed to review it first. Remember when you bought a game went home and played it and never had to buy or pay anything else? Now buying a game is like giving someone access to your wallet. I could name a dozen games of the top of my head that would been complete flops if they had been reviewed by independant gamers first.
But These are the times we live in. The hype, the need to "play it first", The hugely overpriced skins, pay to win and cheaters online are what gamers deal with today. I remember being able to take my video game back and return it because it wasn't any good.
I have sung this song over and over again but no one listens.
GAMERS! STOP preordering, STOP buying games before you see gameplay. Anyone listening? show of hands... nope

[Omen3608]

Originally posted by WOLFHORS3:

... 20 years ago, no game company would dream of releasing a game without review copies being sent to reviewers first. It would be the kiss of death. The first sign that a game sucked was no one was allowed to review it first.

20 years ago was a time where magazines still ruled the game. That time has long passed and games are reviewed by their successors, YouTube and Twitch. Using just these two platforms you will find way more information about any game then you were able to 20 years ago.

Originally posted by WOLFHORS3:

Remember when you bought a game went home and played it and never had to buy or pay anything else?

That is true for many games today too. What is also true is that there was payed add-on content in the distant past, it just wasn't called DLC for obvious reasons.

Originally posted by WOLFHORS3:

Now buying a game is like giving someone access to your wallet. I could name a dozen games of the top of my head that would been complete flops if they had been reviewed by independant gamers first.

I'd love to see that list. :)

Originally posted by WOLFHORS3:

But These are the times we live in. The hype, the need to "play it first", The hugely overpriced skins, pay to win and cheaters online are what gamers deal with today.

Even though I'm absolutely no fan of that development over the past years, there is a market for it, otherwise it wouldn't exist. Except for cheating, that has always existed since humankind has started playing games. ;)

Originally posted by WOLFHORS3:

I remember being able to take my video game back and return it because it wasn't any good.
I have sung this song over and over again but no one listens.

You can return any game you've purchased on Steam within 14 days if you did not exceed 2 hours of playing time.

Originally posted by WOLFHORS3:

GAMERS! STOP preordering, STOP buying games before you see gameplay. Anyone listening? show of hands... nope

Just to come full circle here, 20 years ago you actually usually bought a game without seeing any gameplay at all, except maybe a crappy few minute video on a CD/DVD, totally relying on an article you read in a magazine, trusting that their ranking system would appeal to you.