Cutesy farm life sim-o-RPG Stardew Valley at the moment added cooperative multiplayer in a free replace, letting farmers invite a number of of their buddies to assist out across the homestead. Multiplayer entered opt-in public beta testing on the finish of April, and now it’s lastly able to launch. Today’s replace, model 1.3, additionally brings new issues for all farmers to take pleasure in, whether or not they play with farmfriends or solo. Look ahead to a brand new winter competition, new objects, new character occasions, the choice to respec expertise, new monsters, and–most necessary of all–hats for horses.
Stardew multiplayer lets one head farmer have as much as three buddies serving to out on their farm, both on-line or over LAN. Farmhands get their on cabin on the farm, to brighten and construct up as they please, and may have their very own relationships with characters. The boss will get ultimate say in some issues (when occasions begin, largely) however everybody’s efforts go to the identical money pool.
Neatly, the Steam and GOG (via the GOG Galaxy shopper) variations help cross-platform play, letting Steamers and GOGheads play collectively.
As for newness everybody can take pleasure in, search for the floating market visiting for 3 days in winter, meet new monsters and discover new treasure within the Skull Cavern, plant crops indoors with pots, embellish your farm with vibrant new doodads, pay large bucks to respec your expertise in a hidden spot, and take a few of the work out of preserving livestock with new gizmos that may robotically milk and shear them.
Creator Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone goes over all the things the update 1.3 patch notes. Well, most of it. And a few of it vaguely. “I think it will be more fun to discover these things for yourself,” he says.
Barone was behind the replace’s new content material, whereas publishers Chucklefish received their fingers soiled in Stardew’s technoguts so as to add multiplayer.
While formally it solely helps four-player co-op, mods within the beta did remove the player limit and cabin requirement (heck, modders even created unofficial multiplayer help earlier than this). I think about modders will work swiftly to replace their creations after this full launch.
Jay Castello told us in regards to the good occasions she had voice-chatting with buddies whereas farming collectively in the course of the beta:
“Without the level of concentration needed in other games, it allows for a calmer rhythm of conversation, interspersed with only the occasional cooperation needed to keep a farm running smoothly. But it also sets up a feel-good space where players aren’t under pressure, with no concerns about winning or losing. Combine that with the inherent comedy of another human-controlled player sprinting into view, barging past NPCs, with a vegetable held triumphantly over their head, and it explains just how much (and how hard) I ended up laughing throughout the two in-game seasons I barrelled through.”
Vegetables are a significant ingredient of pleasant banter.
