Multiplayer support ... multi question.

[teddy]

Hi. I'm wanting to buy this game for my girlfriend and I to play. Several questions. Firstly, let me put this into context... we both have computers at the moment, but in 2 months we are moving to a pacific island without strong internet so looking to download possible games now to play offline when we are there.

1. To play this game together at the moment (from what I can see from the trailer, you control one character each)... is the only way to BOTH pay for the game on our individual laptops and link up online.

1a. This won't work once we get to the pacfic island without internet, right?

2. If we start playing this CO-OP, can our progress be saved and can we pick it up as a single player when we get to the pacific islands?

3. There is no way to play this CO-OP when we are in the pacific islands right? Ideas like connnecting computers together using a LAN cord?

Thanks for all your help.

[Anonymous Helper]

Originally posted by tayz:

Hi. I'm wanting to buy this game for my girlfriend and I to play. Several questions. Firstly, let me put this into context... we both have computers at the moment, but in 2 months we are moving to a pacific island without strong internet so looking to download possible games now to play offline when we are there.

1. To play this game together at the moment (from what I can see from the trailer, you control one character each)... is the only way to BOTH pay for the game on our individual laptops and link up online.

Yes, you both control your own characters on same raft in multiplayer. There is no split screen support if that's what you're asking. One player hosts others join in. Need to be Steam Friends to be able to join.

Originally posted by tayz:

1a. This won't work once we get to the pacfic island without internet, right?

Only online multiplayer is supported so you can't play multiplayer without internet.

Originally posted by tayz:

2. If we start playing this CO-OP, can our progress be saved and can we pick it up as a single player when we get to the pacific islands?

Host can continue game any time they want solo or multiplayer (as long as there's internet connection). If both of you want to continue same save, you can copy world save over. The saves will obviously become different if you both play solo on your own unless you play on different times and copy over the most recent save each time one of you plays. I'm not entirely sure how and where character inventory is saved though.

Originally posted by tayz:

3. There is no way to play this CO-OP when we are in the pacific islands right? Ideas like connnecting computers together using a LAN cord?

Game only supports online multiplayer and has no LAN multiplayer support.

Originally posted by tayz:

Thanks for all your help.

You're welcome. Do make sure you set your Steam clients into offline mode BEFORE departing as AFAIK, you need to be online to enable offline mode. If there's NO internet where you're going, you may not be able to set it up there.

[Kallur 3000GT]

1. You can host a local online game for friends only and both need to own the game.
1a. LAN is a maybe, never tried but instructions later on.

2. There are save files located in computer folders which you can copy & send if you wish to.

3. It should work with your normal crappy network connection if it is just you two.

Have one routerbox with connection, set LAN cord 1 & 2 from that to the laptops if normal wifi does not work straight for you :)

If even that fails try using hamachi/evolve then.

You should find maps normally in C:\Users\[Your username]\AppData\LocalLow\Redbeet Interactive\Raft\User\User_[SeamUserID]\World

Sigh, good luck

[Anonymous Helper]

Kallur 3000GT, have you actually tried any of the things you're suggesting? Raft does not have LAN support and it's multiplayer is entirely based on and reliant on Steam API so how would what you're proposing even work?

[Kallur 3000GT]

Map transfering works without any problems if you give the file to exact location.
We wanted to switch host computers so sent the file to current host (me)

On hosting we had bad connection on location & had trouble playing in large islands so 2 computers were hooked to a small routerbox, 2 LAN cords and given 2mb/s bad connection shared.

On games like chivalry, stardew valley and terraria in steam the hamachi/evolve worked in offline too when i last tested, so thought might work in this too.

[Anonymous Helper]

Chivalry and Stardew Valley support LAN multiplayer and Terraria supports direct IP multiplayer so those I can understand. I was wondering if you had actually managed to play Raft multiplayer without internet connection like OP is asking. 2mb shared internet is still and internet connection even if quite bad one. I'm actually rather surprised that having LAN does anything when playing Raft in multiplayer as it uses Steam for the multiplayer.

This won't work once we get to the pacfic island without internet, right?

[teddy]

A lot of interesting ideas here. Great advice about turning it to offline mode BEFORE I get to the islands!!!! clever.

It seems like it's a no-go in the islands. Couple more questions if you are able to support @anonymous helper. The islands has internet, but it's slow and data is expensive. If we were to play online two player (just my gf and I), does that require fastish internet and does it take up lots of data? (could possibly try and tether/hotspot to phone.

Secondly, you said "Host can continue game any time they want solo or multiplayer (as long as there's internet connection)" ... does the single player solo mode require internet?

[Anonymous Helper]

Fast and stable internet connection is recommended for multiplayer in raft and while I don't know how much bandwidth game takes, I would not recommend it if data is expensive unless you really can afford it.

You'll also have to take into consideration that if you connect to the net, your OS may try to update itself and if you let Steam connect to internet, it too may try to update itself and download any updates for the games you have installed. From what I've read, Steam game updates are a big problem as Steam won't let you play until you've downloaded the queued updates and game patches can go into multiple gigabytes in size. If your stay is not permanent, you're probably better off sticking to single player games and games that support multiplayer over LAN.

If you're staying permanently or for very long period of time, you may consider looking into GOG[www.gog.com]. On GOG games are DRM free, have offline installers you can download and use to install games when you want even without internet and (almost?) all games don't need internet to run if installed from offline installers.

Secondly, you said "Host can continue game any time they want solo or multiplayer (as long as there's internet connection)" ... does the single player solo mode require internet?

I have not tested it my self but few people have on the forums have stated that Raft worked for them in offline mode. Just remember to change 'Friends can join' into 'Nobody can join' when you start the game (the option does not stick currently so you need to set it each time you play).

[teddy]

This guy. So helpful. Thanks heaps man.