Missed Opportunity for Solo Mode

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So, I had a realization, back in November 2022, Aqshy said the following as part of a pre-launch Q&A type thing:

@Aqshy

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.

Confirming both Private Lobbies and Solo play. We’ve obviously received Private Lobbies, and are still lacking Solo Play. But, you know what else I noticed? Zoom!

@Aqshy

We aim to release this at Launch. If not, a patch shortly after that in December.

Enhance!

@Aqshy

If not, a patch shortly after that in December.

Stop there! Right… here:

@Aqshy

patch… in December.

We just got a patch in December, a patch that added more campaign missions, a patch that would have been perfect for Solo Play… and you blew it. Again.