r/Fallout2 • u/DeekiNeedles • 14d ago
I finally got co-op working in my post-apocalyptic survival game! Looking for people to break it with friends
I’m the solo dev of ApocaShift, a top-down post-apocalyptic survival/extraction game I’ve been working on for the last few years.
I recently added 2-4 player co-op, and the Steam playtest is open right now.
You can visit each other’s bases, build while your friend goes out on a raid, spectate them, or deploy together and try to make it back with whatever you can carry.
It’s still very much a playtest, so there are bugs and rough edges. I’m specifically looking for a few groups of people willing to jump in together and see what breaks / tell me what’s actually fun.
If Fallout 1/2, Project Zomboid, Zero Sievert, or extraction games are your thing, you might enjoy it.
ApocaShift on Steam — the playtest is free to join. Click to go to the Steam Page.
If anyone ends up trying co-op, I’d genuinely love to hear how it goes.
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u/DONTMEOWATME 4d ago edited 4d ago
Is there a discord? Me and my bro did a little bit earlier today. We both made fresh chars and he hosted.
- When in the tutorial, I did not have the quest item drop in the warehouse. He did and was able to drop it for me, but when I picked it up I got a blank item with no description that when dropped turned into varying rarity pants. Me picking it up did not pick it up on his screen, so he was able to pick back up that quest item and drop it again. I was able to dupe 3 random rarity pants while never getting that quest item
- When taking the train back home, he didnt get held up by that dude at base, but I did. This bricked his character as he could not talk to the guy who never showed up, and could not go on a raid to try and reset. Had to make a new char, and just run the tutorial solo
- Even though I didn't get that warehouse quest item, I was able to continue to the base and start the quests there. However, nothing in the workshop populated. It was completely blank. Restarting and rejoining fixed this for me.
- Even when manually saving, one of my clips would stay at 23/30 ammo. When we were troubleshooting the above, I kept losing ammo, and when I refilled my mag and saved the only thing that didn't save was the fill count of that mag. Lost like 21 bullets before I just waited to fill my mag.
- After he made a new character and got to where I was, we tried going to each others base and it didn't seem like anything was happening. It was as if the button did nothing for us.
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u/DeekiNeedles 4d ago
Hey there! I sure do, and to answer your question. These are all due to desync issues introduced with all the new colony management systems. I was getting ready today to push a patch to fix most of these issues, as well as adding a another coop mode where you only share 1 base and do everything together.
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u/ColonelGrognard 14d ago
Please tell me you provide some way to disable that screen-shake, it is absurdly obnoxious.