Indie developer Eric Barone, the man behind studio ConcernedApe and hit farming simulator Stardew Valley, has just offered a new update on the game's upcoming multiplayer mode. In a post on Twitter, Barone confirmed he's, "still making good progress on fixing bugs," and that, "if all goes well it should be ready in about a month."
Barone revealed the mode back in January, also confirming that the co-operative feature was now his sole focus. Fingers crossed all that hard work means you and your friends can farm together once more in (potentially) only four weeks time. We still love a bit of Stardew Valley here at Nintendo Life so we're all for teaming up with some mates to tend the soil.
Question is, what do you think of this upcoming Stardew Valley addition? Will it tempt you back, keep you playing even longer or not interest you at all? Comments at the ready!
[source twitter.com]
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Is this online co-op, too??
"Soon" and "Stardew Valley multiplayer" don't belong in the same headline.
This was in relation to the PC version, not necessarily the Switch version. In the comments of the thread Eric Barone went on to say in a response that the Switch version will come after the PC, and the other consoles will follow afterwards but he also said that he didn't have a time table for these other versions.
@Orangezap89 Yup, not just local.
Announced in January? It was on the back of the retail boxes and advertisement since the beginning!
I have great respect he is a one man studio, but it still is borderline to false advertisement. Especially that after almost a year it still isn't implemented.
There is clearly a conflict in priorities and maybe he should have fixed and implemented everything on PC first, before working on other platforms and releasing it there and make these people waiting even longer.
I already moved on after playing +75 hours solo but i might check it out if a friend picks the game. Honestly i'm more interested in the new content he promised a while ago.
HELL YEAH.
Awesome news! I am pretty much done in single player. All I have left is to find a Dinosaur egg, and finish saving up 10 million G to buy the golden clock. Toward that end, just today I played about 800 star fruit. I am not doing any of the online guides for max profit or anything, because I like to role play a bit though.
Anyway, multiplayer would be a wonderful way to add more time and fun to this game. I just wonder how it will work? We we visit each other's farms? Will we make a new farm on a special multiplayer map? Is it gonna be like one player hosts and another joins in, or what?
@Saego @Orangezap89 I'm fairly certain that it is only Online Multiplayer. I wish it had cross-play though.
Too bad it won't be couch co-op though.
Umm, unless I was mistaken, only the PC version will be receiving multiplayer next month, and it's still going to be in beta. I'd estimate we're looking at closer to the 1-year anniversary of the Switch release before we see it here.
@NinjaAceTrainer @Orangezap89
You're right. There's an options for LAN though.
This was confirmed as the PC version
Still waiting for this to be on sale on the switch maybe they will put it on sale when multiplayer goes live to get a big sales bump.
@Dom Sorry to bother you but I was wondering do you know if the Switch version of multiplayer will be online only or split screen as well?
@Tasuki We don't know yet. I hope it supports both, though.
@Dom Hmm ok thanks for the info cause I heard that the PS4 version will only support online I am hoping that the Switch will support both.
@Dom @Tasuki Online multiplayer only. No split screen as far as I am aware, though I have just been informed that it supports LAN.
@NinjaAceTrainer Yeah that's what I figured. LAN is ok but I am not buying another Switch
No physical = no sale.
It’s physical on XBone and PS4, but only digital on Switch.
I’m excited for this, but I don’t have any friends that play this!
@Dom how about the multiplayer update for Cube Creator 3D?
This only applies to the pc version and it's also just the beta
I just bought Stardew so by the time I'm done with it the multiplayer should be out. Was hoping for some kind of local multiplayer over online though.
@Eef the code to get co-op is jumping jumimos
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