Please see this video for more information as well as an apology, since it's come to our attention that some players expected multiplayer mode to be available upon Early Access launch, an expectation that was not met. If the results of the two playtests are positive, we'll add multiplayer mode to Early Access around the end of this year.We'll hold another global time-limited multiplayer playtest with all Early Access players around October 2022.We're aiming to start a global time-limited multiplayer playtest with all Early Access players around the end of August or early September 2022.Here is the tentative roadmap for multiplayer mode.Please note that dates may be adjusted if we find the results of the multiplayer playtests unsatisfactory so that we may continue to improve it. Once we made the shift from DLC to making a new game, the development process has all been done with the future in mind, so the main difference is that Sandrock will be what we always wanted Portia to be. Upon release, Sandrock will be a more polished game the art will be better, there will be more music, the characters will be more in depth essentially: the things people liked about Portia will be present, but we’ll have plenty of new stuff to make things feel fresh. When we were planning the Sandrock DLC, we realized that with our same engine, the new map would just be more of the same it wasn’t really exciting for us, and we didn’t think the players would like it either. The deciding factor for us was that Portia’s framework could never handle multiplayer, and in order to make it work, we’d have to start from the ground up.
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We’ve released a series of free updates to try to give Portia the polish we always wanted it to have, but unfortunately, we’re very limited by some of the coding decisions we made early in development, and we haven’t been able to do what we want to do, nor what the fans have wanted us to do. Portia was coded by a team under a lot of pressure to deliver in a short time, so shortcuts were taken that have made things difficult for us to expand upon Portia at present. What is the difference between Sandrock from Portia?What you can expect to see is a game with a similar vision, made by a much more experienced dev team, with a much greater potential for expansion.
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