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• dealwithitdog Texas Join Date: 2016-06-09 Member: 218343Members

  November 2016

  Flayra wrote: »

  Hey everyone,
  
  We've been getting tons and tons of questions and requests about whether we're going to add multiplayer to Subnautica or not.
  
  Back in our early prototypes we always had multiplayer in the back of our mind. But we had so much to learn about the game, multiplayer was never a priority. Eventually we hit early access and now it would take many man-years to add any kind of multiplayer to Subnautica. We don't want to spend years more working on Subnautica before v1.0, so we sadly have come to terms with the fact that we won't be adding any kind of multiplayer or coop to the game.
  
  Maybe one day we'll start over on a different engine and make a new Subnautica game based around coop. A game where one person is piloting the sub, another person is poring over readouts and computers, another is repairing the engines and yet another is radioing for help in a dark biome, where their Seamoth is almost out of juice. We would love to play that game.
  
  But until then, we're going to finish up Subnautica the way it was meant to be: one person trying to survive in in a massive, dangerous, beautiful, alien world.

  
  I mean, that's why.

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• Hammy2211 Join Date: 2016-10-18 Member: 223218Members

  November 2016 edited November 2016

  dealwithitdog wrote: »

  Flayra wrote: »

  Hey everyone,
  
  We've been getting tons and tons of questions and requests about whether we're going to add multiplayer to Subnautica or not.
  
  Back in our early prototypes we always had multiplayer in the back of our mind. But we had so much to learn about the game, multiplayer was never a priority. Eventually we hit early access and now it would take many man-years to add any kind of multiplayer to Subnautica. We don't want to spend years more working on Subnautica before v1.0, so we sadly have come to terms with the fact that we won't be adding any kind of multiplayer or coop to the game.
  
  Maybe one day we'll start over on a different engine and make a new Subnautica game based around coop. A game where one person is piloting the sub, another person is poring over readouts and computers, another is repairing the engines and yet another is radioing for help in a dark biome, where their Seamoth is almost out of juice. We would love to play that game.
  
  But until then, we're going to finish up Subnautica the way it was meant to be: one person trying to survive in in a massive, dangerous, beautiful, alien world.

  
  I mean, that's why.

  
  Thank you for posting this so none of us had to go dig it up ourselves. :P
  
  I mean, while multiplayer for Subnautica would definitely be awesome, it's just too much additional work for the devs. I believe that they've said that they might look into doing what Don't Starve did and have a separate company make a multiplayer version, but I wouldn't get your hopes up just yet.
  
  EDIT: @gutlessgravy I just noticed that this isn't your first thread on the topic of multiplayer. A staff member already posted the developers' statement on multiplayer and closed that thread. In my years of experience with forums, opening a new thread on the same topic as one that got closed is usually a big no-no. Believe me, I used to make the same mistake when I was younger. I'm assuming that you're also relatively young, and thus didn't know any better. But from now on, try to be careful.

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• dealwithitdog Texas Join Date: 2016-06-09 Member: 218343Members

  November 2016

  Hammy2211 wrote: »

  dealwithitdog wrote: »

  Flayra wrote: »

  Hey everyone,
  
  We've been getting tons and tons of questions and requests about whether we're going to add multiplayer to Subnautica or not.
  
  Back in our early prototypes we always had multiplayer in the back of our mind. But we had so much to learn about the game, multiplayer was never a priority. Eventually we hit early access and now it would take many man-years to add any kind of multiplayer to Subnautica. We don't want to spend years more working on Subnautica before v1.0, so we sadly have come to terms with the fact that we won't be adding any kind of multiplayer or coop to the game.
  
  Maybe one day we'll start over on a different engine and make a new Subnautica game based around coop. A game where one person is piloting the sub, another person is poring over readouts and computers, another is repairing the engines and yet another is radioing for help in a dark biome, where their Seamoth is almost out of juice. We would love to play that game.
  
  But until then, we're going to finish up Subnautica the way it was meant to be: one person trying to survive in in a massive, dangerous, beautiful, alien world.

  
  I mean, that's why.

  
  Thank you for posting this so none of us had to go dig it up ourselves. :P
  
  I mean, while multiplayer for Subnautica would definitely be awesome, it's just too much additional work for the devs. I believe that they've said that they might look into doing what Don't Starve did and have a separate company make a multiplayer version, but I wouldn't get your hopes up just yet.
  
  EDIT: @gutlessgravy I just noticed that this isn't your first thread on the topic of multiplayer. A staff member already posted the developers' statement on multiplayer and closed that thread. In my years of experience with forums, opening a new thread on the same topic as one that got closed is usually a big no-no. Believe me, I used to make the same mistake when I was younger. I'm assuming that you're also relatively young, and thus didn't know any better. But from now on, try to be careful.

  
  Oddly enough, he made this one first.

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