**Any news on promised solo mod? Anything at all.**

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide General Discussion
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Now we are confident in our Dedicated Servers, we would like to take the time and answer those recurring couple of questions that remain; “Can I play Darktide solo?”, “Can I play a private game with one or two of my friends?”.

The answers will be Yes, and Yes.

We’ve been working on an option to play exclusively in Solo Mode, where you will be hosting locally your own instance with bots. Because you will be hosting the AI and other game systems locally, this will increase performance cost. However, we continue to monitor and improve the performance where we can. Solo play is in its final stages of testing as we fix the last issues that remain. We aim to release this at Launch. If not, a patch shortly after that in December.

We have recently begun implementing Private Games as an option, and we’re in the middle stages of development for this. When launched, you can start a private game with 2-4 of your friends. We expect to be able to release this later in December.

We heard your feedback on these topics and needed some time to investigate the solutions we had available to us. We hope you enjoy these features when released and welcome further input on them.

İt was promised and said to be ready, what happened?
Discarded? Dropped? Delayed? if so how long? I’ll take anything at this point.

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News on solo mode? Probably never.

Or 3 weeks before it’s added in, they’ll post about it.

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I want solo… I am at 10 missions to have completed all penances (except Havoc but I don’t feel enough masochist to play it actually) and I will switch to solo soon (I already started for a while to be honest).

Actually, or I play “Many more try”, so in solo… or I pick my zealot with loner aura.

Many more try is not a solo mod, but if you pick a mission generated 2 hours ago and that nobody starts the same mission you picked, you can play darktide solo and get progression.
But actually, with random players, we get players that never take 10 seconds to check a chest. As a result, I stopped playing other classes than zealot, picked a build based on loner and movement bonus, has chosen weapons to face any situation (to be honest, I always do that, but here I take no risk) and now I play missions without paying attention (at all) to coherency.
I continue to help teammates of course, but my way to play darktide is more “solo”.

But still, what we can see in darktide code is that there is 3 game modes:

  • regular
  • private
  • solo
Part of code that let me think this

From story_mission_play_view.lua

StoryMissionPlayView._set_play_button_game_mode_text = function (self, is_solo_play, is_private_match)
	local play_button_legend_content = self._widgets_by_name.play_button_legend.content

	if not is_solo_play and not is_private_match then
		play_button_legend_content.text = Utf8.upper(Localize("loc_mission_board_play_public"))
	elseif is_solo_play then
		play_button_legend_content.text = Utf8.upper(Localize("loc_mission_board_toggle_solo_play"))
	else
		play_button_legend_content.text = Utf8.upper(Localize("loc_mission_board_play_private"))
	end
end

Private has been limited to 2 or more players. I want that they remove this limit.
The solo game mode seems something different… so maybe a game mode without any bot? that would be cool a game mode without bot and with little changes considering this (I think about disablers, demonic bulbs objectives by example).
But I would be very happy just if they change the requirement of 2 players for private games.

However, and cause I often play solos… let’s say it. Most of the maps become really hard when you play them as solo. But there are several close to impossible at damnation while playing solo. All that have demonic infestations are really hard to complete at damnation difficulty cause the demonic tentacles come back too fast and bots don’t help you…
Maps with mini games are harder than usual in solo, but totally feasible.
Other maps (no demonic infestation / no mini game) are more accessibles… except gloriana (first event is a little hard with bots)

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If anything I want TRUE SOLO, as in NO BOTS!

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This is the correct answer

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First, welcome to the resistance. We don’t have jackets yet, they were ready over two years ago but aren’t a priority.

Second, I’ve been annoying Strawhat for a response for a while now and the best I’ve gotten from her and Julia is “we’ll ask the team” or a heart on my comment lol. So, the best thing we can do is continue to be vocal about this missing feature and hopefully the suits will take their head out of their ass and actually listen to the community. Realistically we’ll get a Versus situation where it’s added after 5 years with fanfare like it was never promised before launch.

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i wanna support this idea, but i can’t find the internal gumption to do it… what would the point be?

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True Solo/No Bots was a very common solo/duo category of gameplay in VT2. Most of the runs you see online are true solo or true duo runs.

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The idea is that you

a) can have a true Single Player experience

and

b) can really, REALLY test how well you hold up alone.

Personally, I think the bots tend to hold you back and are sometimes even a hinderance.

Example:
The “No Rebreather Required” - Penance.
“Complete the Orthus Offensive final battle without triggering more than 3 mines”

You can do that with a team that knows what they are doing OR
You should be able to do it solo.
But the bots will fAck it up every time.

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This one, too, is going in the book.

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was legit about to post asking same. its th SOLE reason i refuse to play. i don’t want to have a step back from vermintide and mandatory features in a game of this genre.

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+1 because… yeah it was promised and one of the reasons why I actually purchased the game.

Then, while I prefer co-op as it’s meant to be and way more fun: to each their own and sometimes you can just get tired of latency issues, errors 2001, 2014, etc. We’ve suffered so many of these and still are…

But then again, Obese Fish would have to get decent bots with basic commands (picking up stuff) and decent AI, which can only be very challenging compared to V2 with the added complexity and mechanisms.

Not sure it will ever happen at this point…

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If you’re fine with Modded Realm type of stuff like that was then there are similar mods for DT:

Same idea as Modded Realm, no progression or rewards but you can just about anything you want. Even play solo.

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which is a shame as its literally the baseline requirement for this genre now.

how we went backwards from verm 1 and 2 to this i will never know but fatshark is def a cautionary tale in what NOT to do.

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Coming out of lurker retirement just to say that this exact topic is literally the only reason I even pay attention to this game anymore.

This is a feature that was explicitly promised before, during, and shortly after launch. I bought the game specifically because of that promise.

At this point I would literally just take a private lobby with myself and the shitty default bots, as long as it was a solo mode with progression.

I’m tired of people acting like mods and hacky pseudo-exploits are an acceptable alternative to a company not delivering on a feature they promised. A feature all of their direct competitors have. A feature THEIR LAST TWO GAMES IN THIS EXACT GENRE HAD.

Its utterly infuriating.

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100% agree Tyler. i lurk just for this also and the fact my screen says 2 years since last post for this shows how pathetic it is fat shark failed the fandom.

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Yeah, I’ve mostly been watching the forums, subreddit, and steam news posts for this game for a while, figured with the new year I’d try and come back more full-time, see maybe if things shape up.

Hopefully we get some actual news on this front, someday. TBH I’d even be fine if they just flat out said “solo mode is never coming” because at least then I’d have some closure. Its the fact that they won’t even admit that they messed up back at launch by promising it when they did, and that they keep kicking it down the road with this “Its not a priority right now” noncommittal echo.

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Well, I for one welcome you both to the crusade. Having more people actively fighting for solo mode will help prove that this promised feature is wanted and needed. I’m sure the suits don’t care because solo mode won’t “make them money”, but considering they’ve already given me a refund and won’t get another cent out of me until solo mode is added. I’ll go as far to say that even if they release a new game WITH solo mode, I won’t buy it until the promise is fulfilled in this one. After all, why would I continue to give money to a company that has repeatedly shown they don’t give a crap about upholding promises to their community?

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FS’s communication style is non-existent, Sure @FatsharkStrawHat pops in now again to say “Hey we got notes, don’t worry” but after this amount of time and hearing it more than once it now seems hollow and more like a tactic to avoid having to live up to past promises. Shame so much time has passed that you can’t get a refund because of their marketing tricks

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