Any news on the Multiplayer?

[John F. Kennedy]

I heard them talking about it a long time ago and if im not wrong I thought I heard them mention it releasing with the 7.00 release. I hope they didnt scrap the idea cause I think it would be an awesome concept

[Axeface]

Did you try it when it was tested? Out of interest. No no news.

[Armando Broncas]

This game doesn't need multiplayer it needs better UI, better tutorials (7.0 is a step in the right direction) needs to put faces and comms on mission rquests and on mission success, comms in combat, something that makes the universe feel more alive and engaging, better NPC's looks, more content for single ship gameplay etc. Multiplayer is not needed.

[chris23162]

Originally posted by John F. Kennedy:

I heard them talking about it a long time ago and if im not wrong I thought I heard them mention it releasing with the 7.00 release. I hope they didnt scrap the idea cause I think it would be an awesome concept

It's a bad idea and works very very badly in the game. All we got was you click and wait for a timer to tick down and give you some trash rewards, with the chance of seeing player ships controlled by AI in your universe. Considering my main base will have taken with continuous building and all the needed resources 12 REAL WORLD DAYS so 288 hours to build and another player could just destroy it for the lol's if real multiplayer was a thing I don't think they will ever make it happen.

[PeaceMaker]

Originally posted by John F. Kennedy:

I heard them talking about it a long time ago and if im not wrong I thought I heard them mention it releasing with the 7.00 release. I hope they didnt scrap the idea cause I think it would be an awesome concept

Next to nothing and hopefully it will continue to be next to nothing.

[Shev]

Except every contrarian on this topic always concludes for some reason that 'multiplayer' is some nebulous term that either means 'massively multiplayer online' with hundreds of random people connecting to the server to kill/grief you, or a pvp-centric multiplayer.

I've got twenty friends in my gaming group that love the concept of the X series; but they just don't want to play the X series by themselves. We'd love to play this game on our own dedicated server in an entirely co-operative mode; the game is amazingly beautiful and is very expansive, with so many things to do, explore and interact with.

An example of this is that I personally, don't like designing and piecing together stations; but afew of my friends LOVE planning that sort of stuff out. Another couple friends LOVE dogfighting and nimble ships, another loves being on a capital ship like a carrier or a large cruiser; and I personally love handling mining/salvaging/resource collection.

So if we were all playing together under a single empire; we could all help the empire in our own ways, and still have fun together.

As it is, when multiplayer was teased a ways back; those friends were all really excited because they'd have a reason to jump in and buy the game; and then when it was announced what the 'multiplayer' actually was, disappointing to say the very least.

So we've just not bothered, I jump in once or twice a year and play alittle bit; but I end up quitting because I'm just not having as much fun as when I play in a co-operative game with all my friends; and we've known each other for over fifteen years. I'm 42, I've known them since I was 22.

This game is exactly what we'd all love to play, because it has something for all of us; but again, none of us want to sink hundreds of hours into a game that would be enriched a great deal if we were all in it together. So, we buy other games like Valheim and sink our time into that, despite it being quite simple for what we're used to(we're EVE Online veterans from way back who played together, and now that we're older and have moved on from EVE and what it has offered, we've really not found any game that offers as much depth and variety in gameplay, X4 would offer that to us, but again, no multiplayer).

[Ketsa]

This is a game that would be very enjoyable in small scale multiplayer, group of friends on their own server.

[Mystozhaf]

i think the multiplayer you meant is the online mode? but it's pretty much just sending one of your ships on a commission and that ship will appear in some players world (iirc it's not available in ver 6 for some reason but will be available in ver 7)

[Hullu Ukko]

I miss the multiplayer test when mines were everywhere and your L ships got blown up by torpedo ships =)
Good times.

[cwsumner]

I think that the "playing with friends together" is now called "Co-Op" play, and not "Multiplayer". That might be what is causing the confusion...

There are several problems with multiple players in the X-Universe games, though. For one, you would each need "Cray Supercomputer" or something to run it with more than 2 fps.

In a sense, though, the "co-op" is these forums, we talk a lot here. 8-)

[Captain Canard]

Originally posted by Shev:

This game is exactly what we'd all love to play, because it has something for all of us; but again, none of us want to sink hundreds of hours into a game that would be enriched a great deal if we were all in it together. So, we buy other games like Valheim and sink our time into that, despite it being quite simple for what we're used to(we're EVE Online veterans from way back who played together, and now that we're older and have moved on from EVE and what it has offered, we've really not found any game that offers as much depth and variety in gameplay, X4 would offer that to us, but again, no multiplayer).

Have you heard of Space Engineers?

[Shev]

Originally posted by Captain Canard:

Originally posted by Shev:

This game is exactly what we'd all love to play, because it has something for all of us; but again, none of us want to sink hundreds of hours into a game that would be enriched a great deal if we were all in it together. So, we buy other games like Valheim and sink our time into that, despite it being quite simple for what we're used to(we're EVE Online veterans from way back who played together, and now that we're older and have moved on from EVE and what it has offered, we've really not found any game that offers as much depth and variety in gameplay, X4 would offer that to us, but again, no multiplayer).

Have you heard of Space Engineers?

Yes, we played that a lot. Had our own dedicated server and made machines so big and vast that they actually brought the dedicated server to it's knees when we used them; we had a large one that basically ate entire large asteroids; and then we had one that was basically a drone-carrier that sent out little mining drones that targetted specific ores, and that too was so large and sent out so many drones that it brought our server to it's knees.

We've played a LOT of these games over the past decade or so; Empyrion, Avalon, Space Engineers, ARK, 7D2D, Conan, Project Zomboid, Valheim etc. Pretty much big, open-world game that allowed us to host our own server, we've jumped into and had a great deal of fun with. It's just that the X series, particularly X4 has always been the one that has everything we'd want, at the fidelity(graphically) and depth(of gameplay, planning and gameworld size) that would really dig it's hooks into all of us for years; we all love what X4 is, but we just don't want to spend 300-600 hours playing by ourselves; and it's a shame because that game is exactly what we'd play endlessly together; especially with the amount of mods and customization it offers from the community.

[Carlsberg]

I don't believe X4 can be multiplayer as is. It would i think, need to be developed as a multiplayer from the start and it wasn't. Asking for mp to be added is unrealistic and IMO the people asking/hoping have no clue as to the enormity of the request.

[BadDudesaBomBa]

Old thread, I know, but I have to say this because I find this "anti-multi" sentiment both ridiculous and infuriating.

Every single ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ time someone mentions that a great game could benefit from a multiplayer game mode, all these ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ troglodytes crawl out of the woodwork to let everybody know that they don't want it and the game is somehow BETTER without THE OPTION to play with your friends.
It's an OPTIONAL GAME MODE, you jabronis. Why do you always assume that whoever suggests multiplayer actually wants the game to be a full-on MMO? Very few people actually want that, but everybody who has at least a certain level of social life would LOVE to play co-op with their friends. I don't understand why that hurts you guys so much.
And don't try to tell me that if the devs would start working on a co-op game mode they would stop working on everything else. I'm pretty sure whoever is working on the game would know and understand exactly what to prioritize without you throwing a temper tantrum every ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ time someone so much as mentions the idea of co-op.
Not to mention that in this case the game's been out for YEARS, it's pretty much done. They're just putting out DLC, so it's not like it would halt their progress completely if they would, god forbid, actually implemented an extra, OPTIONAL game mode.

[zpc]

*crawls out of the woodwork*

There shall be no distraction for the dev team besides singleplayer aspects!

We pay them for improving the core X game and still wait for perfection in a lot of areas! As soon as another can of worms will be opened financial support of the core audience will drop and hurt the game a lot as it is a niche product and can't compete for many years in the multiplayer segment.

*crawls away*

[Captain Canard]

X4 is not a multiplayer game. Get over it. There are plenty of multiplayer games out there similar to X4, including Elite Dangerous which is adding system colonization this year, so go play one of those if you don't like X4 as a single-player game.