Comments - 2HitMatt

Yes! Are you going to bring in a combo system for the sword attack?

Not much of an answer in that Adam haha. There are quite a few considerations with regards to online mode, so we're leaving it till after the main story line is built. If we do it, initially it will only be for Versus, to keep the code simple and help us learn how to best deal with this type of action over the network. Then onto the beat-em-up stages from there.

The main issues we'll come up against is whether to go and do it properly(hard long way basically) of more or less simulating the action on the server side and making sure the clients reflect the simulation or the easy quick way, which is just send data to each other and update each client without much checking to see if the 2 games look the same. Phantasy Star Universe did it the easy way, and although annoying with players looking like they were fighting nothing in the corner, it still got the job done. But I think we gotta simulate it and do it the hard way.

The other issue is that we're never going to be as big as say Counter Strike, so heaps of businesses, small companies and hobbyists probably wont be hosting dedicated Fatal Theory servers. So that puts it into the hands of the players to host their own games, which is doable, but it means those players wanting to host will have to figure out how to port forward and open up their firewalls correctly. Terraria is like that and I know tonnes of people who played it online, but for the most part I think people just opted for the single player mode because it was easy to setup and go.

Its something I want to do, so you can count on it happening, but theres no way to estimate how long or when it will ship at this stage.

It sure does. Currently it only has a 2 Player Versus mode, but once Story Mode is finished, we will make a 2 Player Arcade mode for smashing tonnes of enemies in.

Thanks :D

Thanks :D. The demo is available in the downloads section. We're trying to get onto Desura atm, so hopefully that goes through so we can have a more up to date version out.

Congrats on first btw!