Multiplayer

[Mandarin Blue]

I have to be honest. The Multiplayer experience is extremely frustrating in every incidence I have participated as a visitor to another players world (3 so far), yet every experience as the host has presented me with no trouble at all (twice). The multi-player is extremely glitchy, and in many ways frustrating. I doubt I will continue as it is, because even as a host, I do not enjoy myself as I hear the other player complain about all of their own frustrations, over all of the same things I have experienced. My accomplishments feel hollow without a level playing field.

When I first log into a game, I am often stuck within my own body, with only a waist high view, and a camera that will not function, The good news is that now, after only one or two more tries to enter, I am back to normal.

When I try to water my crops, my watering can often decides not to function. When I try instead to use the hoe, in hopes of waiting for the watering can to co-operate, it also decides not to function.

When I harvest my crops, the produce usually sticks to my waist in a shivering type of animation. Usually, I can move or hop around to remove it, then pick it up or jump to get it, but the very next item does the same thing constantly.

When I leave my farm to forage or find something else to do, I am often transported right back to my farm, even if i am currently, successfully purchasing seeds for example, then I have to run back to the store before it closes, to try to complete the purchase. This seems to be a newer development, yet has occurred at least once per in-game day.

When mining, swinging the axe often blasts my character back several paces, and sometimes over into a nearby area, which gets very disorienting. Other activities have caused this relocation as well, but I do not recall the specific circumstances at the moment.

All of these things cause big in game time loss as far as daily productivity.

I fully agree, from my experience, that this game is ready for release in single player mode, and hands down my favorite game made so far, however, the multiplayer mode is not ready for release.

Edit: I just read the 1.0 Release patch notes, and given that the devs have stated they will continue to be working on the game, and full release was prompted by current financial restraints, I fully trust that the multiplayer experience will, one day soon, be just as amazing as the single player experience.

[Sillysally]

Excellent description of our harrowing, frustrating experience we have been having the past few days.

I finally had several other people respond to my open game request.

Now they are having a very frustrating experience with it. We as a team of two to begin have both hosted and joined the others games.

Host is ok but other players is a frustrating world of difference.

We have tried it all and feel bad. sorry I cant explain better.

I have asked my tekie son to play with me sometime and make a list of what the real problems are that could perhaps he could communicate them with you for hopefully a better discovery of what the problems may be.

I'll have him or he will use me to communicate what he finds if anything to you.

I also adore this game, and really love the new people it has brought into my daily enjoyment.

[Pumpkin Days]

Sorry about the bugs we'll look into it for next patch.

[Blask]

going in to test with Sally it looks like a combination of load on the game engine as well as latency stacking up. when i was testing it with sally hosting rather then throwing me backwards the game outright crashed so you'll have a set of logs from the reports on that. in the mine it didn't really seem to kick in that i saw but when a large tree was falling it kicked off and 6 times out of 10 crashed the game out.
if its running the locally the latency was likely lower then 10ms.

[Sillysally]

Were trying to help you guys and we will keep you informed of what my son finds. Hoping it helps you guys, and looking at it from another guys perspective with fresh eyes. Thanks for all your hard work guys.

[Mandarin Blue]

My cow and my goat are stuck on the roof of my chicken coop, so I bought the bell, but not a single animal responds to it. I recall early on in EA where you mentioned that a full night's sleep cycle was necessary to clear up some of these issues, and that is something we no longer have practiced in the current multiplayer game, due to food availability.

All of my barn and coop animals empty their feed troughs daily, even though I still continue to fill them enough for two days each morning.

My chicken has never gone into the coop (I don't know how she eats the feed), day or night, rain or shine. I bought her fully grown, and in the span of two in game weeks, has only laid two eggs on the outside stoop. She never shows hearts when petting or brushing, but my journal does record her as attended to. I finally just sold her and got a new one. Too early to tell whether that is the solution.

The cows and goat give milk on schedule (at least until I was unable to reach them). For a few days earlier on, I would try to place food in the troughs (barn and coop), but it didn't show up visibly. I wasn't sure if the animals were being fed. The cows continued to produce milk daily, so I guessed it was only a missing animation problem.

When I pick up a trough to relocate it, the feed disappears, as it used to in single player.

When i open my storage or refrigerator, it often closes again before I can get the item I am trying to place transferred from my backpack.

NPCs are often passed seen running in place. For example once I was talking to Evan at the museum, while at the very same time, the other player saw him stuck running in place in PV. I once passed Dee stuck walking over a bridge, or more accurately, stuck IN the bridge up to her waist.

Some of the issues I have noted are similar to issues that at one time occurred in the single player game, but have since been corrected. All from this current list are occurring in a game I am Hosting, not playing as visitor as posted above. I didn't yet have the animals in the earlier post.

Edit: Even after a full night sleep cycle, the cow and goat are still on the coop roof.