What multiplayer games have single player/offline mods? (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
from CorrodedCranium@leminal.space to games@lemmy.world on 28 Dec 2023 04:03
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Someone posted recently in this community about a The Days Before single player mod that may be developed and it made me wonder.

As servers for games are shutdown I occasionally see fan-run replacements but I’m curious about singleplayer and offline mods. It seems like more of a niche as not all multiplayer games would work as well without other players.

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eratic@feddit.uk on 28 Dec 2023 05:10 next collapse

I tried SPT a few months ago (with additional mods) and it was enjoyable especially if you like tarkov. There’s a mod which makes the maps connected, where different extractions lead to other maps. There’s lots of things you can do to make the singleplayer experience better.

Although I’ve ended up playing the GAMMA modpack for STALKER Anomaly instead. It has what I look for in tarkov, and then some.

LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world on 28 Dec 2023 13:36 collapse

What’s SPT?

MomentsInTruth@lemmy.world on 28 Dec 2023 14:15 next collapse

Looks like Single Player Tarkov:

www.sp-tarkov.com/#features

LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world on 28 Dec 2023 22:35 collapse

Thanks 🌿

eratic@feddit.uk on 28 Dec 2023 16:31 collapse

Single player tarkov, the mod that the RPS article is talking about

Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc on 28 Dec 2023 06:01 next collapse

Did cs2 have offline mode? I remember playing cs1.6 against bot, it’s quite fun.

tekila@lemmy.world on 28 Dec 2023 07:44 next collapse

Yes CS2 has an offline mode.

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world on 28 Dec 2023 10:31 next collapse

Yeah, it was called “Half-Life.”

Abucketofpuppies@lemmy.world on 29 Dec 2023 17:46 collapse

It does, but no lab so far

Crafter72@lemmy.world on 28 Dec 2023 15:56 next collapse

NFS World come to mind, there is mod that allows you to play the game with emulated server (so you can play it offline). Also the community made an effort to recreate the client and restore the game by making community servers (alongside some added custom content).

Maybe MMOs that have custom client or simply localhosted emulated server mod count on this context.

yamanii@lemmy.world on 29 Dec 2023 20:40 collapse

Thank you so much for this, I had no idea, I played this a lot as a kid.

Crafter72@lemmy.world on 30 Dec 2023 09:47 collapse

np, NFS World probably bit niche side of NFS even though there was EA Black Box involvement on that game, while the original World has MTX nature, the emulated server deletes them and convert them into the same in game currency that you won from events.

I keeping tab on NFS Edge restoration (Project Verge) as I never played them (It was China only iirc) and it seems pretty fun if the MTX part are gone, hopefully they can manage to replicate the success like in SBRW to allow custom community server.

Yggnar@lemmy.world on 28 Dec 2023 16:07 next collapse

Hitman 3 has a custom offline launcher known as the Peacock project iirc, super good time, let’s you unlock all gear and play exclusive timed events and stuff whenever you want

superbirra@lemmy.world on 29 Dec 2023 02:20 next collapse

life :D

vortexal@sopuli.xyz on 28 Dec 2023 22:54 next collapse

I know it’s technically not a mod but most older versions of RuneScape can be played “offline” by creating a personal private server. Everything from RSC to HDScape can have private servers but I don’t think I’ve seen private servers for RS3.

atrielienz@lemmy.world on 29 Dec 2023 14:44 next collapse

Local co-op games, or just strictly games that are multiplayer with an offline single player mode/main game story line?

HeavyRaptor@lemmy.zip on 29 Dec 2023 19:21 next collapse

Escape from Tarkov has a very good single player mod called SPTAKI

CorrodedCranium@leminal.space on 29 Dec 2023 22:29 collapse

The article I linked with the post was about that. I still can’t think of a lot of other examples though

HeavyRaptor@lemmy.zip on 30 Dec 2023 00:04 collapse

Yep sorry, just read the post didn’t check the link

CorrodedCranium@leminal.space on 30 Dec 2023 01:01 collapse

No worries. It was a good recommendation

yamanii@lemmy.world on 29 Dec 2023 20:15 next collapse

Modders are almost finishing a private server for Dragon’s Dogma Online, you can even host your own, enemy spawns were the newest breakthrough, but I couldn’t take any quests.

Good thing is that there’s a money cheat and every shop sells it’s entire year stock, even collabs, christmas, etc. Anyway here’s everything it does and how to get it.

CorrodedCranium@leminal.space on 29 Dec 2023 22:33 next collapse

That sounds wicked. Almost like it would be the preferable version for newcomers and hardcore fans alike. Even over the official servers if they are still up.

Grass@sh.itjust.works on 30 Dec 2023 00:44 collapse

Omfg. Thanks for sharing this. Ddon is my favourite really generic fantasy game and I really missed the qol changes over dark arisen. I see there is still work to do but I’m likely going to be testing this out in the new year. I really miss the spell casting inputs, my favourite of all games with magic where I actually feel like I’m personally making the spell stronger rather than just minmaxing stats or charging for stupidly long ultimately reducing DPS.

Grass@sh.itjust.works on 30 Dec 2023 00:50 next collapse

Still super in progress and a genuine pain to set up last I checked, but grasscutter (name iirc) for genshin impact. I was hosting a server my friends and I played on and we just played in a gtfo gacha configuration. It’s one of the few I know of being reversed while the game is still live on official.

yamanii@lemmy.world on 30 Dec 2023 02:55 collapse

I saw that some time ago but I remember reading that they didn’t have enemy spawns and AI, something like that.

Grass@sh.itjust.works on 30 Dec 2023 04:22 collapse

There were enemies the last time I tried it but they weren’t perfect or totally accurate to any particular version of official. Quests were also really hit or miss and some required manually overriding as cleared. some public servers automated this but I couldn’t find much on the procedures when I was hosting one.

Master@lemm.ee on 28 Dec 2023 07:55 collapse

I wish the devs would just fuck off and let us coop against bots with progression or let mods do it.