I have been wanting to play this game since it was announced. However, I prefer single player games. I know this game is designed for 3 players, but I read that they were going to add 2 player and maybe single player support. have they made it any better for us loners? I don’t really want to play with randoms either.

  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    It already supports single player.

    It supports 1 or 3 players, which is why not supporting just 2 players was stupid and they are fixing it.

  • Selyle@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    12 hours ago

    It already supports single player 🩷 Enemy health, poise, and runes are adjusted to balance the lack of teammates. You can also buy a few Wending Graces that will allow you to self-revive since you won’t have teammates to revive you. Some of the final day bosses can actually be easier to manage solo. I sooo recommend the game, and I also recommend giving multiplayer a chance when you’re comfortable with the overall loop and navigating the map. While I do occasionally get a mess of a team, I would say the majority of my matchmade runs have been super smooth and fun!

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      1 hour ago

      I was watching a friend who got it and he tried it solo initially before swapping to online play and it seemed waaaay harder. Not sure if he screwed up a setting and it was really the 3 player version or something.

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      4 hours ago

      You’ve only played with randos? You get by ok without voice chat?

      None of my video game playing friends are fans of Souls-likes so I’ve been putting this one off.

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      10 hours ago

      Have they changed the game a lot since launch? When I was watching the reviews of it, everyone made it seem like you have to have a cohesive party all working together and using their skills properly and the game is impossible solo.

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        8 hours ago

        They did rebalance solo play to make it easier but it will always be more difficult because bosses were made with co-op in mind.

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          7 hours ago

          From what I saw, solo is a lot easier than coop (streams of the game, not played it myself yet). Enemies have basically no HP, and you can predict what they do, just like in a normal Souls game. Also, you’re not getting matched with randoms.

          If you’re playing with friends, sit in voice chat, that might get easier for you again.

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    9 hours ago

    You can play it single player, I played all the souls game single player, but more recently prefer doing bosses with others because I’m not a patient player and from software bosses require patience. Lots of it. Lol.

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        12 hours ago

        Correct, they do scale the boss HP when solo vs a normal trio game, you also get one guaranteed free revive and shops are guaranteed to sell a revive item. Personally, I’d still rather queue with randoms, but we’ll see how that goes when they add duo games. Queue times can already be a bit long sometimes, and I’m a bit concerned that losing duo teams to their own mode will make solo queues even longer and more annoying.