Add solo mode already, we've waited for long enough!

it wouldn’t even take longer that 5 minutes, it was promised, it’s just changing a 2 player requirement to a 1 player requirement, which is literally just changing it from “Players Requred: 2” to “Players Requred: 1” which, i don’t know about you, but i find that to be a pretty simple thing to do after making your players wait for about a year and a half for something you promised before the game was fully released.

i know that there are people who are dumb enough to say that you don’t need solo mode in a game like this, to that, i say this. every horde shooter that ISN’T darktide has a solo mode and in many cases, these can be played without forcing people to be online.

some examples of horde shooters with solo modes are: the left for dead games, the helldivers games, the payday games, every CoD Zombies mode, the killing floor games.

there will also be people to say to just use mods to play solo mode. my response is that console players can’t do that, nor should people have to go out of their way to learn how to mod darktide because fatshark decided that they wanted go back on what they said would be in the game.

there might be some people stupid enough to say that nobody would play it. i will say now that i and many others would play it, along with many people would come out of the woodwork to play darktide because there are people who want to play, but there’s also people who just don’t want to deal with people at all, so they don’t get the game, in spite of the interesting game.

by Swedish Law, the lack of the promised feature does constitute as breach of contract and thus the player base can in fact form a class action lawsuit that i am willing to be a part of.

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Adding this one to the Book.

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I would be playing the game far, far FAR more than I do now if they added a solo mode. Especially with the new narrative rework and the overhaul of the mission menu.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, even if it was just Sedition with the shitty default bots, I would be all over a solo mode just because I’d actually be able to play the game at the pace I wanted to, instead of everyone who wants to just rush through the levels as quickly as possible or do things in a very specific hyper-optimized meta way.

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AGREED! honestly, i hate playing zealot and having to slow down for everybody else or playing my ogryn and holding everybody back. i would rather just play at the pace i want while also looking around the map in every nook and cranny for plasteel and the such. i do really wish that we could direct the bots to pick up/hold grims and scriptures though.

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Especially necessary considering devs refuse to change Malleus Monstorum and Just a Flesh Wound to be obtainable through normal play, locked behind asinine private game requirements.

Would be easy to get with solo mode.

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yeah, just go to damnation, get the bots to get downed or blown off the map, don’t let them back up until you’ve gotten your penance, job done! it’s dumb that obese water creature refuse to add this.

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Would be good if they allowed us to have our other characters as team members with the builds we picked, which is how Vermintide 2 did it. Would motivate me to try them all.

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As nice as it would be, at this point I just want literally any kind of solo mode to be added to the base game. Get Fatshark to actually deliver on a promised feature first, THEN we can worry about making it better/more interesting/etc.

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what’s so hard about implementing a single player mode anyway? yes, it takes some work to adapt the maps to a single player, but there’s a lot mods solved already,.
just think about what speedruns people would come up with. there are a lot of good players who just prefer to play alone.

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It isn’t. Turning the requirement for private games from 2 players to 1 player would be enough, iirc it’s LITERALLY just changing a number.

Would it be a bad experience past malice? Absolutely! Would it still technically be A Solo Mode? Also true!

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the maps are already adapted for solo, it’s just that some of the martyrs skulls and penances require you to have at least one other person.

We need this, as well as better bots.

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The main issue might be the online component, as in not wanting to host a server instance for just one person.

A self-hosted headless server exe on same PC or 2nd would likely solve this issue, but would probably require EAC for the server to keep things legit, and even then there’s the danger I suppose of making a server executable public.

IDK if there are porting issues or security or political implications or all, but I would have killed for a game server a year ago to pick any maps+mutators for privates multiplayer matches. Monday’s changes still fall way short.

Solo mod already exists as you said, if you’re just looking for a 0ms ping (ed:+ simulated latency or a 0ms fix) experience for fun. OFC none of the penances and stuff and you can do whatever the hel you want there as there are zero blocks to modifying everything and anything so bragging rights are moot, a solo mod game cannot be considered “legit”.

I personally don’t care about solo mode as I could do that with the mod for my own personal enjoyment, but again, I’d live to be able to host a dedicated “legit” server for me and my buddies.

I wonder though: do people want a self-host or dedicated 0ms ping solo game or just solo instances for the current servers?

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30-40ms is kinda required for the game to function as designed.

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I would love to be able to host a server for my friends. I could even host another instance or 2 for other players in my region. Given the complexity of the backend I doubt that’s going to happen.

Changing a 2 to a 1 is simple, but that would produce a pretty shitty experience for 99% of the players who would try it. The game isn’t designed to be played with 1 human and 3 shitty bots who can’t help with completing objectives. It would still require connecting to the FS servers and instead of 1 instance supporting 4 players it would just be 1. The result will be a handful of happy people, and a bunch of disappointed players asking for a refund and giving bad reviews.

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Changing a “2” to a “1” is not acceptable, Solo mode should be like Vermintide where the bots aren’t brain damaged and their slots can be filled with your own characters with their weapons & talents.

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I think most people who want a solo mode don’t expect they should be able to beat some high difficulties with bots? It’s more to grind materials or pennances on their own pace, etc.

Cause i’m not sure bots in V2 can handle crunched up Twitch mode, or Deeds on Cata. But people are somewhat fine with it.

V2 bots were braindead for a long time, they were fixed by modders first, classic.

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@FatsharkKitefin I’d really be trying to push for an official explanation on where solo mode is if I were you. This silence has got to stop

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Funny thing is, Id probably still play pugs most of the time. I tend to play a couple solo games on V2 after a long break to get my bearings again.

I also would play harder difficulties beyond my skill level to push myself until I felt a bit more comfortable to pug it.

Even if I rarely used it myself, people deserve even a bare-bones solo mode. It was promised after all.

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I would like a solo mode. I don’t have a lot of time to play this game due to my kids & family, sometimes I just feel like just pissing around with a weapon or try out new builds and then be ready to dip out any moment if the kid wakes up. I don’t want to do that with others because it’s an inconvenience to them and therefore I just don’t boot it up at all.

What’s really getting me with this is how they literally said that it was almost done and would be ready on or immediately post launch. Like, cmon man.

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