Is the game good for a solo player ?

[Emperor of Frogs]

Everyone looks to play it in COOP, is it fun to play solo ?

[Nicholas]

I am gonna try that, gonna let you know if it works out

[Prydain]

For sure ya. Just need to learn the bots limitations and work around them. They are best at simple tasks such as repairing and manning the guns, but not so much anything outside the sub unless they are directly following you. But even that you can work around once you get used to the game since I usually bring at least 1 with me all the time now when doing more dangerous missions.

Definitely go through the tutorials and be ready to restart some missions a few times until you get the hang of everything. Game is honestly its most fun when your trying to fight a sinking ship and its pure chaos lol.

[Megghi]

No.

[Spark Sunbright]

Yes, the game is plenty of fun solo. This game is comparable to many solo RPGs in which you control the team/party as a whole to accomplish various goals. The bot AI, while rudimentary, manages most tasks without any major problems. If you enjoy single-player games like Sheltered or Kenshi, the solo experience in this game may be right up your alley.

[FuBi0]

Unpopular opinion, game is better solo. It's more of a survival and resource management game that way. Online games I've played so far boil down to people stealing essentials and witholding them or treating this like Space Station 13. Solo it's a game, Multi is just chaos and people pretending to know what they're doing.

[Kill "people" with hammers]

Originally posted by FuBi0:

Unpopular opinion, game is better solo. It's more of a survival and resource management game that way. Online games I've played so far boil down to people stealing essentials and witholding them or treating this like Space Station 13. Solo it's a game, Multi is just chaos and people pretending to know what they're doing.

While people stealing everything they can get their hands on is annoying, multiplayer is fun. Multiplayer is the best way to experience the game. As long as your captain is half competent.

[Biggity Swigger]

no

[Profugo Barbatus]

I've really been trying, but its an absolute nightmare to figure out what, if anything, you're doing wrong. Roll out with a starter sub and starter crew on a low danger mission, get swarmed by something that can shoot right through the sub, that nobody manning the guns can seemingly kill. Grab a diving suit, disembark, gun them down by hand, and chase the sinking sub. Barely get aboard, find the sub is falling apart and everyone is drowning - they had breather masks, but didn't use them. Try to get things repaired while they flounder about, but by the time the leaks are patched, the ships completely flooded, there's no electricity to run the pumps, and the reactor is shorting out against the entire ocean, no way to get it running hot enough to have positive power to run the pumps to fix anything.

Repeat that for multiple tries, with manual gunnery to try and kill them before they arrive (too fast and too many to kill them all, and they are smart enough to find and abuse a blind spot), try blasting past them (They're too fast for that to work, and don't lose interest), try sneaking past them at minimal speed with the sonar off (No dice, found us anyway), try a decoy charge (seemingly no effect), until I finally said to hell with this, used the console to kill them all. Finally tried to move on, there's a second group. Alt-F4'd and said ♥♥♥♥ this.

Tried a few more runs, one managed to get two missions deep when I was able to effectively kill some big thing that attacked me by bottoming out on the sea so it couldn't get at a blind spot. Finally felt like I was making progress. Then I got slapped by a pirate with some sort of disabling charges, before the corpse of the big guy was even cold. Couldn't do anything about it, died on the sea floor.

Eventually got frustrated enough with failed attempt after failed attempt that I thought "well maybe the little starter sub is just garbage and a noob trap", so tried something that looked good from the workshop that purported to be easier and AI friendly. Hired an extra starting hand, grabbed a few supplies and a gun to cover a blind spot, and tried to go off on my first mission. Only for something to bug out, the extra crew member to never join the roster, the 'extra' gun to have replaced one of my coilguns instead of having taken the empty slot, and the supplies I ordered, including the ammo for the Machine Gun, to have not been delivered at all. Cue Alt-F4.

I don't have tens of hours or hundreds of hours in this game, so its very possible I'm doing so many things wrong. Maybe running with limited active sonar use, directional pulses for sticking along narrow terrain, watching approach vectors and shifting crew to the appropriate guns, moving to cover blind spots, and taking one-skull missions for a starter ship on easy are all the wrong things to be doing. But if they are, there is absolutely no feedback as to what I'm doing wrong, and what I should be doing right. I'm desperately trying to find the fun, and all I'm finding is seemingly soft-locked encounter after soft-locked encounter where I was dead before I even realized it, with little hope of recovery and few options. When I try to change things up, the game ♥♥♥♥♥ the bed.

I want to believe I'm just eight layers deep into some noob traps, but if the entire beginner tier and evident tactics are solo noob traps, I don't know where to begin digging out.

[ajping]

It's good training for multiplayer. My feeling is that you must play captain, however, and let the bots handle engineering, mechanical, etc. Navigation is very, very important and using sonar sparingly is the key to avoiding the deadliest encounters.

[Саныч]

Solo - you can, but not for a beginner (or get ready to suffer and overcome). This game is definitely made for multiplayer

[Yumemirareru]

So most people, on attempting a blind solo run of this game (and at any difficulty), are going to die over and over the moment they get a mission that is actually somewhat stressful to the submarine.

If you're willing to fail again and again and again, and figure out the game's various mechanics (which will require outside resources, ie guides and perhaps asking people), then you may have fun playing solo.

[Kaİra]

bots dont make mistake,sometimes its easier than online.

[Emperor of Frogs]

Thanks for your feedback, i've tried several games but i've the feeling the bots are not god at all and it makes the solo games so hard

[Nightsbane]

Originally posted by Megghi:

No.

The first and only honest answer here

[Wondervice]

My two cents:
I never played Barotrauma before 1.0, and I have played 15 hours since I got it, all solo.
I did the tutorials which do a reasonable job of explaining basic stuff. I did one run where I softlocked myself by taking a swarm mission too early.
Now I am doing my second run and I just crossed over to the second biome with a five man crew and a very well upgraded starter sub. No one died so far.
I didn't use any mods and I never did any crazy rewiring/automating engineering work.

So far the game is absolutely playable solo, and it's nowhere near the galaxy brain suffer-fest people make it out to be. You need to be patient, and careful and have a reasonable grasp on the game's systems.
You also have to be okay with doing a lot of inventory management and some tedium of staying in one place while managing your sub. If you want the crazy mayhem of clowning around and everyone doing different things simultaneously, well you won't get that with solo play.