LESS DLC MORE CO-OP

[Bestdadever]

like really its going to be 2025 before it comes out?? they said it would be 2022.. or am i missing something?

[goatfish]

where did they say it was going to be 2022?

[Bile Titan]

Originally posted by goatfish:

where did they say it was going to be 2022?

check out the pin topic, they said sooner then Q4,2022

[Uriel]

If coop is so easy to add, why don't you just code it for them ?

The game was initially intended to be solo, and mighty fine as is, thank you very much. But for some reason there is a crowd of brain-dead people who whine for coop in each and every game, pestering devs and review-bombing if it's not added within minutes.

The only mistake the devs did was to say they'd oblige. If it were me, the reply would have been "this game is solo andalways will be". They're being way too nice.

[Sn!ck[CH]]

This devs still add a ton of things to the game, patch it etc. And also are more or less rewriting the whole code so coop will be playable (not just "there is coop" and it craches, like other devs did). Therefore I'm happy to wait longer but then getting a full working game with coop. And don't forget: There are still game out there that promised a ton of things and never even added it.

[Ainz ooal gown]

Originally posted by Sn!ckCH:

This devs still add a ton of things to the game, patch it etc. And also are more or less rewriting the whole code so coop will be playable (not just "there is coop" and it craches, like other devs did). Therefore I'm happy to wait longer but then getting a full working game with coop. And don't forget: There are still game out there that promised a ton of things and never even added it.

I agree with you fully and if the ones complaining about coop not being in game yet could just read the posts about it from the devs they will hopefully understand that the entire game and engine has to be rebuilt for coop to be possible (posts can be found on discord and steam)

[Aerkanz]

When they released the game they said the first thing to come was coop

[Uriel]

Originally posted by Aerkanz:

When they released the game they said the first thing to come was coop

No, they didn't. I was following this game long before it was released, and that was not the plan. They gave in to adding coop "when it's done", and certainly not "first thing", because a lot of ding-dongs kept pestering them about it.

I'm sure they are interested in doing it too, else they would just have refused. But it was most certainly not intended to be included in the first place, and absolutely not "first thing to come".

[MeatRack84]

Yeah, I could care less about co-op. Amazing solo game.

Co-op mode doesn't even align with the story - you're supposed to be a lone explorer of an alien planet. Your only buddy is your mech suit.

Seems like "every-game-must-be-multiplayer" is an ideology for some gamers.

[Bearsuit]

Read the pinned topic, christ

[Gorem]

People are still playing this game? Surprised its not entirely dead by now. Though it makes sense with how few sales the DLC is getting considering it has like 10 reviews only. This is still a play once you've experienced everything, all 3 DLC's have added nothing worth playing as its just powercreep in an already easy to beat game even playing as hard as possible. You have to mod difficulty increases to make it have a semblance of enemies not just walking into death.

We asked for coop back at launch, and still nothing but 3 DLC's that no one was asking for. We wanted content after the end game of the original story. doing DLC's before just makes the already beatable end game, even more beatable.

It truly makes no sense as the one thing people wanted was coop, and they have let this game die off before giving it.

[Gordon Freeman]

Originally posted by Gorem:

People are still playing this game? Surprised its not entirely dead by now. Though it makes sense with how few sales the DLC is getting considering it has like 10 reviews only. This is still a play once you've experienced everything, all 3 DLC's have added nothing worth playing as its just powercreep in an already easy to beat game even playing as hard as possible. You have to mod difficulty increases to make it have a semblance of enemies not just walking into death.

That is 100% my issue with the game.

[tiger199835]

Originally posted by Bile Titan:

Originally posted by goatfish:

where did they say it was going to be 2022?

check out the pin topic, they said sooner then Q4,2022

Actually the pinned topic and the very old roadmap people may be referring to both say no sooner than Q4 2022.

Also, the release of DLCs do not delay the progress of coop development as much as people think. See this article posted in 2023 https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/780310/view/3683429634490247606. There was also an article or discussion thread posted earlier that goes into this in much more details but I could not find it.
Basically, as of 2023, the studio had 15 staff, only 6 of them are programmers. These 6 programmers have been focusing on coop. The remaining 9 people cannot really contribute to coop development because they lack the technical skills, so they make DLCs and other patches instead.