Train of Thought: 1- Game is already badly optimized 2- Solo Game hosting uses the computer of the person hosting it, rather than Fatshark Servers (Alas Vermintide 2) Result: Players without extreme FPS configs/file changes and without extreme PCs will get like 40 FPS when trying to Solo

Also most times I quickplay during the day :laughing:

well i mean, backfill has been broken since the battle for tertium update, any mission you start with a low timer on the board is very likely to just load you into an empty mission, and depending on the timer its rng whether you get teammates or not. hell i can often just try to play a game of mortis trials, but because thats such a dead gamemode it just loads me in alone, which is nice cause then i can just leave if i dont get an archetype i want and retry until i do, and ill eventually get some teammates after a few rounds. but yeah the backfill being broken ever since the mission board rework has left us with an unintended solo mode ever since, just requires you to keep track of the mission timers :laughing: one thing i have noticed though is that backfill isnt broken for campaign missions, the missions are way easier than normal because they dont have any modifiers and they still give the same amount of xp (if its a later mission in the campaign). might be something to do with the button in the mission terminal for the campaign quickplay toggle, that seems to function properly, but the regular backfill into normal missions has been broken for months…

[image] Vror: 2- Solo Game hosting uses the computer of the person hosting it, rather than Fatshark Servers (Alas Vermintide 2) I think it’s actually the opposite. Unlike Vermintide, in Darktide if they add solo it will still probably be hosted on Fatshark’s servers; if you have four people each playing solo, instead of playing together, that means four times the load on the servers, and they obviously don’t want that.

[image] Dizzy721: Not to mention the scope creep of also needing to improve bots There is a mod call better bots. The bots are actually quite good (as far as bots go). I could finish an auric game without feeling cheap. Had a dog arbites with charge, Scum with tox pistol and dual shivs(tox build) and a psyker with bubble and flame staff. They performed well. Only one that I felt under perform (Should check again after the last update) was the flame psyker. It opted more using melee than the staff. The modder is working on it quite a bit and he keeps on improving it with minimal performance loss with solo mod.

[image]Community Update #1: Pre-Order Beta Hotfix 1.0.6 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. Their initial implementation was locally hosted.

Honestly the bare minimum of “let us pick their class and talents, their gear, and let them use their primary ability (not blitz)” would be more than enough to use them like in VT2. I say “not blitz” since those replaced grenades from VT2 and them not using grenades in VT2 was fine.

I don’t think that’s the performance issue. SoloPlay mod works fine unless you really run the game on a potato. My bets are: server cost, the coop nature of the game, cosmetics show off, coop nature of map objectives and the state of the game bots.

Or just let them implement a second layer with internal method to run the lua scripts and sub contract the community to update it for them or they just do it them selves after acquiring the code. Basically everyone can have solo and smart bots. Not sure how compatible it would be for other platforms though. Don’t think it’s the most optimized way of doing but it’s better than nothing

It was only fine because they instantly gave them to you when you had no nades There’s no similar thing they can do here sadly (unless somehow you got more blitzes when playing in Solo like those maelstrom modifiers)

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Their initial implementation was locally hosted.

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The (most likely) real reason we didn't get Solo Play

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