Egosoft, we need an official statement on this...

[aftokinito]

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void ConnectToMultiplayerGame(const char* serverip);
bool IsNetworkEngineEnabled(void);
void NewMultiplayerGame(const char* modulename, const char* difficulty);
bool QueryGameServers(void);

Tell me your secrets, daddy Ego.

[aftokinito]

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@Luke: You can thank me later for this m8, I took your advice from that comment
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[Perahoky]

Wow you're a hardcore hacker!


@Egosoft
we saw what you did there
But first, fix/complete/expand the base game i think

[Alewx]

That is really a dirty little secret
Where did you find it?

[Perahoky]

How can i do this on my own, so i see its real?

What do we find at next?
A player body and futuristic hand weapons for shooter on stations?

[aftokinito]

How can i do this on my own, so i see its real?

What do we find at next?
A player body and futuristic hand weapons for shooter on stations?

gameoptions.lua

[Perahoky]

How can i do this on my own, so i see its real?

What do we find at next?
A player body and futuristic hand weapons for shooter on stations?

gameoptions.lua

And which cat and path ?

thanks

[Azurgan]

oohhh crap, stay out of my game

[Axeface]

The Settings > Controls menu has 'Toggle Chat Window' option, its there for everyone to see.

Please egosoft, dont do this, there are much, much, much more important things to do.

[MegaJohnny]

Well spotted. Really hope this is a canned feature though.

[conquestor]

If they actually waste time on this I'm writing egosoft off entirely. People said they REALLY didn't understand their market after X:R, and it's looking like they may be right.

[Roflknife]

If they actually waste time on this I'm writing egosoft off entirely. People said they REALLY didn't understand their market after X:R, and it's looking like they may be right.

Egosoft has been eyeballing multiplayer since forever. They didnt bother deleting the references from their multiplayer-tests.
Obviously they concentrated on getting X4 shipped. If you dont see how X4 caters to its core-fanbase, then you must be blind.

Theyve been waiting for an opportunity to ship multiplayer along the way since forever. They have their priorities right, otherwise there wouldve been multiplayer 10 years ago already.
At some point and time and if the stars should align, when it's reasonable and all the work comes together, a multiplayer will be shipped.
When that day comes I suggest preparing yourself to not stare at your neighbours plate like a lot of other people tend to do with this topic.

[Tanall]

Egosoft has been eyeballing multiplayer since forever. They didnt bother deleting the references from their multiplayer-tests.
Obviously they concentrated on getting X4 shipped. If you dont see how X4 caters to its core-fanbase, then you must be blind.

I distinctly remember people finding references to multiplayer as far back as X2! I think it's one of those 'want to do' things. This might be the farthest along they've gone though.

[Roflknife]

I distinctly remember people finding references to multiplayer as far back as X2! I think it's one of those 'want to do' things. This might be the farthest along they've gone though.

Allegedly people were actually able to connect to an actual game. Not just the menu is in the game. It does feature very, very basic functionality. In this case it probably would be the most Egosoft has shown us yet. I cant confirm it though.

It's funny to go back and read all the threads of people discussing multiplayer in 2004 for X2 and looking back at the "X Online Universe" project.

Like, damn, these discussions and dreams have been a long time ago.

[=FEUERSEIFE=]

Now since this is out, i'd like to ask.

If the multiplayer happens in full blow, would we be able to create our own servers?
Even dedicated servers and all that?

Cause i got a few computers here that i can't sell that would be perfect for a server!

[StoneLegionYT]

I really hope multiplayer becomes a thing. There is so much backlash but most of it has always been unreasonable about it. Chilling with a mate in the X Universe I think is beyond awesome. Having a MMO Server would make me puke and kill myself. There is a difference in so many ways.

Clearly if they thought of MP They might designed the zones a lot better for this as well. Meaning that you don't need to sync all the data just what happens where you are at that time. The Map might be another story but it could work out really well for you and a friend to enjoy.

Also imagine running the server on a beastly machine CPU wise and have more performance not having to run the simulation locally but now your PC can focus on the rendering aspects.

This could end up being a X Fans wet dream even for single player purposes.

[DancingPengiun]

Yeah, there is a big difference between MMO and just wanting semi/co-op/group multiplayer (like Space Engineer).

The latter I don't mind (semi/co-op). They do what they want to do, this isn't some public investment company forbidden to do something they wanted to do decades ago at the whim of a few.

[Sesk]

I think right now their priority should be fixing bugs, addressing god issues with the stale universe/economy, improving the UX, expanding the amount of content such as weapons and ship diversity (visual and functional), and then working on adding the Split and Boron as part of content updates or the DLCs. Then maybe thinking about multiplayer.

Personally, I wouldn't play multiplayer since it seems to be community hosted servers, so flaky connections, flaky up time, flaky experience. And then what about mods, a pillar of the series? And what exactly does multiplayer add to the experience? PVP? Coop missions?
I rather have Egosoft put 5000 man hours into making the game that much better (see the key points listed about) instead of trying to implement multiplayer.
Maybe if they made the universe 10 times bigger and went MMORPG style with official, permanent, persistent servers, I could see some interest in having players setup stations and trading with each other.

Also, the thread title isn't great, should have contained the keyword "multiplayer" so Egosoft people wouldn't think this is some clickbait asking for something silly... like multiplayer

PS: This is assuming the method signatures aren't some relic of a "just for fun" Friday afternoon escapade by a "what if" developer.

[VariousArtist]

Kids, grow up! Thats barely more than a test connection via sockets build into their game engine.
A skilled coder can build something like this (a simple networked chat via sockets) in just a few mins.

[NovaKiller]

EGOSOFT's Priority is to fix the bugs of course it is, their not going to suddenly stop fixing everything to work on MP. What was found here was something they've probably been half developing along side the main game for a few years and is either a big feature coming or was canned at some point. Don't understand why people automatically assume that the devs are all of a sudden going to stop working on the main game to fix what's broken with the game because someone somewhere found a few references to MP in the settings screen and unlocked em. It's ridiculous guys. X games have, and always will be, singleplayer experiences and that ALWAYS be priority! A Side game mode for multiplayer would ONLY be there if you want it to play with friends or may be, an official server you could join.

I would personally love multiplayer, I wouldn't join an official server but I would however, LOVE to play with friends in the same universe building empires and creating wars together! how anyone would think that wouldn't be good, or fun, or enjoyable I have no idea if the SP is there for you to play instead. No Man's Sky doesn't do Multiplayer correctly, it plays very badly, its laggy, there can be some de-sync issues and even though everyone is supposed to be online, it never really feels like it and the 4-player restriction is a bit silly for as grand of a game that's supposed to be and X4 would definitely do it better in my opinion with a full proper coop experience.

I imagine this is going to be much further down the line if it ever comes at all, like a year away at least, they have big plans for content for this game and I imagine they would come first before ever implementing any sort of MP game mode but a great find on those screenshots showing the MP settings.

Just my opinion on the matter.