3 players

[Hammer Goblin]

Homies out here making a 4 player game into a 3 player game?
Make it make sense, money was blown to get 3 other of my friends this game, and one of us has to get left out. Dead Island was once a 4 player game. What sprouted that change eh? Make it make sense.

[Purple Monkey]

My guess is they lowered it to three to improve performance.

[Hammer Goblin]

Originally posted by Purple Monkey:

My guess is they lowered it to three to improve performance.

I *Heard* "through vigorous play testing we found that the game remained difficult with the perfect amount of zombies" - unconfirmed but sounds like Deepsilver...

--But real ♥♥♥♥, didn't they have a metric ton of zombies in the last game, on 4 players + increased difficulty per player? Hell they added the Masochist Card, for "Added Difficulty". I'd LOVE not to leave out the player I asked to play. Lol

[Ogmok]

my guess is that the reason is the the development nightmare (8 years of development; the developers switched several times).

Maybe one of those (at least) 4 developers was used to create 3-player-games and they did a big part of the multiplayer section of the game.

[HunterFromAbove]

My best guess is that it is due to balancing reasons, maybe because this game has much smaller areas than Dead Island 1, but tbh apart from this guess I have no idea why. I mean it really is odd, most games like this have max 4 players and here it is only 3.

[Hammer Goblin]

What I don't like about all this is even playing with 3 players in shifts is naey-possible because of the dog water online service. Can't play with friends if the servers won't let me, and I do in fact blame the servers for this one, as there are points where I can and can't play with friends; but can on other games. I'm not hosting, either.

[Purple Monkey]

Originally posted by Doctor Hammer:

Originally posted by Purple Monkey:

My guess is they lowered it to three to improve performance.

I *Heard* "through vigorous play testing we found that the game remained difficult with the perfect amount of zombies" - unconfirmed but sounds like Deepsilver...

--But real ♥♥♥♥, didn't they have a metric ton of zombies in the last game, on 4 players + increased difficulty per player? Hell they added the Masochist Card, for "Added Difficulty". I'd LOVE not to leave out the player I asked to play. Lol

Wait, what? People find this game difficult? It's insanely easy.

[Hammer Goblin]

Originally posted by Purple Monkey:

Wait, what? People find this game difficult? It's insanely easy.

Snip.
Well I sucked in the beginning stretches. It got easy when you can find a gimick to shred enemies, but jokes aside. I feel bad because they downed one player xD

[Whiterabbit-uk]

My group did exactly the same. We assumed it would be like Riptide and the original with four players. So we all bought it as we loved the first two. We finally got a session running but discovered the fourth player was unable to join; in fact it would crash the game. Very very disappointed, we always play as a group of four, so this game will now be shelved.