The higher-ups fairly transparently want to engage in ensh*ttification of the product, adding FOMO, RNG tricks, and constant grind in a fairly incompetent manner.
They don’t have the capacity to actually make a ‘live service’ that updates frequently enough so we get outsourced cosmetics every couple of weeks and once a quarter maybe a new map or something else they slapped together.
Meanwhile because they’re incompetent at actually doing cohesive development nothing holds together long-term, it’s a series of slapdash inclusions.
yeah it super BS that this game STILL lacks solo mode and we have to back door/add the feature for them. like its proven not even hard to do it at basic level.
ok i was intrigued and investigated, that mods actually very clever, it’s sort of offline, you need to connect to the servers to get in and to get out, but the actual gameplay is indeed offline even took the cable out to check and it keeps working
And you’re right, it has damn near no CPU overhead.
It’s not actually hosting a server though it’s using a self authenticating client this is why it only works solo and why you don’t get progress, I’m actually impressed how well it works, but its only running that AI and director assigned to that(tutorial) so it’s not a true like for like experience, but it seems pretty close to me.
So you can’t host offline, and it won’t ever be useable for multiplayer, but the problems with solo offline are not as I thought with the overhead, turns out it’s pretty well coded into the client. (for solo at least)
The issues are they would need to redo/add to the front and back ends, which i seriously doubt they would be willing to do. but an online solo mode shouldn’t be hard
I feel that there will be radio silence, which I consider truly disrespectful. After 2 years and a clear promise, even ChatGPT told me that the solo game mode should come soon, we still haven’t received any news.
Well, although I still love Darktide, I must say that with each mission completed, I play Darktide less and less. I’m tired of having to follow rushers… I just want to play at my own pace. I even bought several games trying to find something to replace Darktide.
I still have AC Shadows to finish, but it’s not something that will replace Darktide. I just hope Dune will be good enough, and even if it is not Darktide… because honestly, the game has reached its limit… Havoc, no balance, power fiesta, spawn fiesta…
I’m really sad… I just don’t enjoy running behind players who are always rushing anymore and I don’t enjoy the current direction of the game. And as I always say, better to play something else than forcing to play a game.
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The prosecution would like to present another piece of evidence for why solo mode should exist.
Some of us want to do things without 3 wannabe sweatlords being “helpful” every 5 seconds. So its either risk getting saddle with you, or go it alone. Now since the people saying “why would you want to solo” are clearly not willing to change their outlook its up to the rest to be nice and not inflict our oh-so-terrible prescence on them. Hence the desire for solo mode.
In other words why are you people so damn whiny about something that literally won’t affect you at all?
@FatsharkKitefin you’ve probably been told not to touch this topic with a ten foot barge pole but can’t lie, seeing a new CM makes me hope someone might finally communicate a clear position from Fatshark about this.
For those saying they already have, if it was as simple as “not happening” surely a CM could drop into these threads to say that clearly no?
Honestly it’s not clear to me why FS does not offer this feature. It seems simple enough to remove the restriction for two players in a private game and then be done with this issue. Unless there is some hidden reason they can’t easily do this I’m not sure why they wouldn’t.
The only thing I can think might be an issue would be server impact handling extra mission generations. Though they could scale back up their servers to handle this. I suspect they had more servers available at launch when this game had many more players. This issue comes down to either money or someone in charge dragging their feet about adding solo capability.
most of the puzzles can be done solo the corruptor eyes tho maybe if they push back the damnation timer to the heresy timer it would be easier to do solo if you bring in weapons that arent great for dealing with the daemon zits
yeah corruptor zits for me are the biggest issue slower weapons or ones without enough cleave can not deal with them solo while some weapons like kickback or trauma staff delete them form reality
Mini Games too might be a problem for true solo, maybe have a bot auto attempt them forcing player to protect… kind of why i suggested them as servitors…though they are pre-servitors
Likely both. Money from renewing whatever contract with a data center they had. After all Obesetuna is all about making as much money as possible and damn the long term consequences. Dragging their feet from absolutely refusing to admit that their “latest and greatest” idea is a dismal failure while the players have been right all along.
Greed and ego. A sure path to mediocrity and failure.
