How does the game decide who plays Jason?

[☠djb204☠]

Does the game choose at random? Rank?

Can I choose to be Jason when playing Solo?

Can I set up a private match with friends and set the CPU to play Jason?

[Dead/Stick]

1: In a public match, it chooses randomly, not based on rank or anything.

2: Solo as in a public match? No.

3: No, there is no AI Jason or survivors but in a private match with friends, you can pick who plays Jason.

Basically, in a public match, you pick both your counselor character and your Jason character. The it just randomly
picks someone and you can remain in the same lobby when the game is finished.

[☠djb204☠]

So there is no AI fill-ins in private matches either? One of us MUST play Jason?

[Dead/Stick]

Originally posted by djb204:

So there is no AI fill-ins in private matches either? One of us MUST play Jason?

Correct. AI is not an easy thing for devs to do at all. It would take a lot of time. Also an AI Jason would be very difficult on it's own.

I think you'll come to find that having one friend as Jason is actually really fun.

[Democratic Catboy]

1. I'm not sure, I know they said they have a preference system though and you can opt out of Jason or for him.

2. You probably could in a private match, by yourself.

3. No, there is no AI Jason or survivors.

[Pesky Fox]

As others have said before, in a public match, it chooses randomly, however you can opt-in to be Jason, which increases your chances of being Jason, but it is still random at the end of the day.

In private matches, the host can choose who is Jason, or the above happens as normal.

There is no AI unfortunately, but that is hard and expensive to code

[Mutzadel]

I remember that whoever has the least jason hours or experience gets picked

[OofstinGames]

Originally posted by Pesky Fox:

As others have said before, in a public match, it chooses randomly, however you can opt-in to be Jason, which increases your chances of being Jason, but it is still random at the end of the day.

In private matches, the host can choose who is Jason, or the above happens as normal.

There is no AI unfortunately, but that is hard and expensive to code

Yeah how would a jason Ai work? Would they make it just randomly roam around or would it always know where you are?

[Shreddy The 13th]

Originally posted by Deadpaww:

Originally posted by djb204:

So there is no AI fill-ins in private matches either? One of us MUST play Jason?

Correct. AI is not an easy thing for devs to do at all. It would take a lot of time. Also an AI Jason would be very difficult on it's own.

I think you'll come to find that having one friend as Jason is actually really fun.

atleast until single player releases and you are either A. playing as jason witha bunch of AI counselors or as a counselor playing against an AI Jason. its possible just probably not at launch

[☠djb204☠]

So at the end of the day, I guess it's safe to say that this game will be an "online only" game at launch? At least until or if a single player mode gets released?

[OofstinGames]

Originally posted by djb204:

So at the end of the day, I guess it's safe to say that this game will be an "online only" game at launch? At least until or if a single player mode gets released?

Yep, pretty much

[Dead/Stick]

Originally posted by Ferd Mertz:

Originally posted by Deadpaww:

Correct. AI is not an easy thing for devs to do at all. It would take a lot of time. Also an AI Jason would be very difficult on it's own.

I think you'll come to find that having one friend as Jason is actually really fun.

atleast until single player releases and you are either A. playing as jason witha bunch of AI counselors or as a counselor playing against an AI Jason. its possible just probably not at launch

It's possible yes

[☠djb204☠]

Originally posted by RaptorJesus:

Originally posted by djb204:

So at the end of the day, I guess it's safe to say that this game will be an "online only" game at launch? At least until or if a single player mode gets released?

Yep, pretty much

I wonder if the game will have LAN support? Hmm

[MMGoverRsquared]

Originally posted by Epex aetonix:

Kinda sucks you can't be the killer if that's what you really wanna play.

Yeah especially because some people are probably gonna exit the game if they didn't want to play the role they were given..

[MMGoverRsquared]

Originally posted by Epex aetonix:

If this is how it's going down I'll have to just reconsider pre-ordering the game and wait to read some of the reviews before making the purchase.

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[☠djb204☠]

We could start a F13 group where we get together for private sessions and rotate the Jason role equally?