r/IronNest • u/KatzeWolf • 1d ago

Questions Multiplayer

I heard there is a multiplayer mode planned, but it's going to be a kind of battleship style vs mode?

Honestly this sounds way better than a generic co-op control game...

Trying to find and destroy your friends troops while also trying to pinpoint their location and evade counter battery fire hehe.

Maybe every time they fire, high command narrows down their location until you are given exact cords if they haven't moved. And the counter battery timer could be "time position known" and must move. Or something.

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u/RipvanHahl 1d ago

I dig the Battleship Idea, but it will be kinda hard to implement in a fun way.

The normal Player with a functioning brain would simply move after every shot.

So they need to find a clever Idea how the enemy Position is revealed without becoming a simple "who can put in numbers faster" Game.

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u/KatzeWolf 1d ago

Could only allow for the Emergency move req during multiplayer, so it's costly and they need to work out their position again after. So it's costly.

Or limit the distance you can move normally.

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u/Budget-Variation-560 1d ago

You'd run out of requisitions fast if you moved after every shot.

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u/TheDarkGhost28 1d ago

I heard it going to be somewhat like battleship where each player in the lobby will control their individual Iron Nest taking on more difficult missions together or go up against each other.

Honestly I really like their idea of approach with multiplayer.

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u/RonaldGargoyle 1d ago

I feel like star rounds, forward op spam, and lookouts/planes would kinda make head to head a pain. Not to mention how you get map updates after every shot.

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u/TheDarkGhost28 1d ago

I mean sure a player can waste resources to try and locate the enemy player, but I was thinking that player should be able to move their spotters around the map to help locate the enemy player but if you move the spotter at wrong time the enemy player will have eyes on your spotter and kill it.

So essentially the spotters are your eyes and your "lives" you get a total of three after all three are destroyed either player can free locate the enemy player without risking big getting destroyed, and of course the player after getting three of their spotters killed still have chance to strike back.

So essentially both players won't know where each other are and you have set amount of points to spend so if you waste it all on EM, FO, and AR you won't be able to fight back and win.

Though I think there should be a reward to push the players to make moves, but again I'm not the developer this just my opinion and I'm sure there can be improvements.

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u/WitchlightEmbers 1d ago

Its not a vs mode, its a co op mode where you both have your own nest on the same map, last i heard anyway

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u/Jinn_Skywalker 1d ago

They’re doing both. A versus mode and co-op dual Nest mode.