Boy, it sure is a great day to be ignored by Fatshark for another week. In fact, I hope they continue ignoring my questions about solo mode. Getting an answer after 4 years would feel hollow and empty, I’d much rather continue operating off the established premise that Solo Mode is still planned since they haven’t officially canceled it.
They get subsidies. They don’t need our resources. It’s like how the rail road companies built rail roads extra long and curvy so they could get more subsidies. It’s just economics. The state incentiveses live service slop.
More this thread stay alive and come back to the top, more it shows how they have betrayed their promises.
And if they close it, it would be worse.
Yep! Keeping solomode in the community zeitgeist and letting people know that Fatshark does not care about keeping promises or their fans informed is important.
That post was 100% sarcasm and “reverse psychology” 
Fatshark must be playing “Politician Simulator”. Campaign on a promise to get “votes” and then spend the next 4 years in “office” pretending that promise was never made and refusing to acknowledge anyone who brings it up, silencing them if they get too persistent. Let’s just hope I don’t end up in a prison cell where the cameras “stop working”
Can someone call Lassie to let Fatshark know their fans are stuck in the well known as “No Comms for 4 years”?
Heeelpp, I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!
I’ve spent the last 5 minutes trying to think of an interesting way to ask, so I’ll just get straight to it: can we please get a yes or no on if Solo Mode is coming?
I second this.
Your unwavering dedication is amazing, brother.
Really doubt it’s happening at this point. Surely Fatshark has a reason for not putting it in, like they did the math and server upkeep for soloplayers is more expensive than what potential new solo players will earn them. Solo players also don’t see other players running around in shiny new bling that will tempt them to go to the store.
Not that I agree with this approach..
People need to understand, solos is never going to be implemented because while YOU think is a good idea, it kills games. Statistically, many online games, even battleroyales and PvE games, when introduce SOLO mode, the player retention drops heavily, I have talked to devs that have shown me the stats. they will never do this for that reason.
Because for instance, many times I wanted to quit after playing Havok, but stayed and played like 5 more, just because my team was cheering me on to play more.
You go the solo route, then its all up to your own mood.
maybe one of you will be encouraed to play, but then denying a skilled player that can solo aurics, from plebs, is also not helpful. you join a match and help it win, might make them want to stay.
So you can keep asking for this, but you will never get it. You are not meant to.
You want solos? download the mod.
This would be more convincing if it wasn’t present in every past game in this franchise (as well as just about every other game in this genre).
I’m not saying you’re completely wrong, but it doesn’t really line up with observed reality, and regardless the point of this thread is that we simply want a straight answer.
If someone actually from Fatshark says what you have, sure, I’ll give up. I’ve already vowed to never buy another Fatshark game without solo mode available day 1 anyway, so either way doesn’t affect me much at this point.
Basic honesty is a low bar though.
Also games die eventually, this one certainly will. And unlike VT2 with P2P and solo mode, Darktide will be actually unplayable when it does. Solo would keep the game playable in at least some form beyond its active lifespan. It is good and correct to advocate for such.
It sure did kill Vermintide 1 and 2 huh…
And at this point it’s about keeping the fat shark honest, they said solo mode was around the corner 4 years ago
Because screw the console players right?
uhm when is it not or rather how easily suggestible has someone to be for not setting his own terms?
if i wanna play i do, if i got my content for the day i quit.
mates wanna go on i wish em a good time and call it a day.
its called integrity and having a backbone.
the “one more match” is someting already planned in and seeing the prospect of gaining something from that time investment beforehand.
if the last 2 matches were ass and you’re tilt nothing should make you drag yourself through a third repeat 
aside from that its rather the opposite.
normally I put in longer sessions and more stress free ones in solo attempts for i am my own minister of propaganda.
the bad stuff never happened and the awesome scenes were of course right out of bed without warmup and the first attempt of the day 
solo lets you try stuff endless amount of fails without being under the lense of 3 others.
at your own pace, on your own terms.
ever since i played space marine 2 exclusively solo, bought fireteam elite 2 knowing I’ll never hop into an online match.
both companies got their sale revenues, no?
the modders will add an essential feature. kinda lazy approach to making a game.
I doubt a simple “Yes,” or “No,” could be an honest answer to if solo mode is coming … like, ever.
“Yes” is only honest if it is actually on a schedule somewhere, with a budget being worked out. “No” is only honest if it has actually been ruled out, never to be made. (We know it’s not a physical impossibility.)
The most likely scenario is, being “not a priority,” solo’s not on any schedule, and there is no budget. But there’s no commitment to never producing it, either.
Hmm … I’d be loathe to believe any answer but a “Yes,” followed by a date. Because a “Yes,” or “No,” unbound by time is more prophecy than promise.
A question that could be honestly answered is, “Is there currently a concrete plan - not just a vague, “maybe someday,” intent - to implement solo?”
I guess it’s possible that solo is on a master schedule somewhere but FS wants to keep it secret. Keeping secrets is usually a sign of weakness. In this case, that weakness would be uncertainty that they can or will follow through on the plan.
Silence should be interpreted as a “No plan.”
I think the only thing to be learned here is: It’s futile to ask questions of those who cannot give an honest answer.
I guess, yes?
They learned something from it apparently, they tried it that way, and it clearly had a negative effect, and they decided not to do it. from experience, and statistics. so yes. clearly it did have a negative effect there. Otherwise its a single switch for them.
Yes, perhaps for pepole with self control and the older crowd, But they want the genZ money, the most valuable player is the Genz, not us anymore.
They tried this in Vermintide, they stopped for a reason, otherwise all of this is a single switch for them. Same with moded realm, you dont take out a feature unless it is detrimental to the games economy somehow.
Essential for you, detrimental for the game maybe? similar to scoreboard.
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You’re making a lot of assumptions. The devs literally planned to implement, had it almost ready, even said “it could be released now, but we’re not happy with it” and then stopped all updates on it to fix the broke ass game they released 4 years early. Sure doesn’t sound like Solo ruined VT1 & VT2 and they decided to cut it to me.
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Based on an actual study done on what players are wanting, there’s a slight lean towards a preference for Single Player games over Multiplayer games for most countries: Ampere Analysis
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@alsozara covered this but it bears repeating: Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, Vermintide, Vermintide 2, Helldivers 2, GTFO, Back 4 Blood, World War Z, Risk of Rain 2, Killing Floor 2, and Killing Floor 3 all allow you to play solo (w/ or w/o bots) despite being primarily co-op focused games. This list is non-exhaustive, but to my knowledge there’s only one primarily co-op game that doesn’t allow solo: Darktide.
It’s a game not really suited to the live-service model trying to compete as a live-service game.
It needs to stand out somehow.