honestly, the game is too easy and its not exactly great that solo mode was promised and still hasn’t been released almost two years after the release of the game. there is a mod that allows solo play but that awards no progression what so ever and if i play then i wanna be able to progress.
for anybody who says that a solo mode isn’t something a horde shooter should have or will ever have, shut up and play left for dead and vermintide. for those who point out the mod, i know about it and i already said i want to progress if i play solo.
some people prefer to play games alone without people at all and the lack of ability to do such with darktide causes those people to not want to play, not to mention some people would just rather be alone sometimes instead of with friends or random people.
solo mode would make the game much better, even more so if there were a botless option so that people who don’t like playing with bots or people can just play without bots or people.
You can play solo. I do it. Be advised that bots are pretty bad if you want to go to higher difficulties. Try Many more tries as I explained in the thread quoted above.
I doubt I would ever play it honestly (solo mode). But they should add it. It seems like there’s technical limitations. But they should just allow people to host the servers themselves. Even if it’s a modded realm/unofficial mode that they can do offline and progress how they want.
I think it was that if a bunch of players play a game instance by themselves it’s not nearly as cost effective when they’re hosting the games in the cloud with dedicated servers. So there’s a financial reason to not want to implement solo mode.
Agreed, some of those private game only penances would be SO EASY to get if I could just play with or without bots in my own lobby. I mean, it seems like such an easy feature to add, so whats the hold up?
I think FS tries so hard with the increasing paly-time mindset since the released of DT.
They don’t implement red weapons because they want you to keep playing/farming.
They don’t implement solo mode because they want people to play together and easy to find a group to increase engagement.
They want you to do contracts weekly to increase play-time.
And these are quite annoying. The contracts aren’t fun, rather annoying. The wep farming is also annoying.
They want to increase play-time so much that they forgot the beauty of this kind of game. It’s all about combat, skills, trying out new weapons, matching weapons with skills and have fun. But they rather limit all those. Implemented RNG upgrade system. I really hope they learn from this. It’s not a dang gacha game. It’s a co-op and combat focused game.