Request for chadz: Multiplayer Skyrim Mod?

[RipperX]

Would you ever consider making a Multiplayer mod for Skyrim?
I'm hearing rumors of multiplayer potential with the game and thought of you.

Don't abandon M&B of course but was wondering from a programmers eyes
how hard it would be to accomplish this, especially with the opensource modding
tools Bethesda is making available. Just a thought...

All the best,
Ripper X

http://www.youtube.com/TMRipper

[Digglez]

Skyrim has no multiplayer interface AT ALL (because Bethesda sucks balls)
What you're asking for is impossible



http://www.computerandvideogames.com/296453/bethesda-explains-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-multiplayer-omission/

"We always look into multiplayer, put lots of ideas on the whiteboard and it always loses. It's not that we don't like it. I can think of ways it would be a lot of fun."

According to Howard. creating multiplayer would also pull the development team from the single-player portion of the game and jeopardise the quality of the solo experience

True stupidity uttered by a lazy cheap stupid dev who is stuck in the past.  Multiplayer drives game sales and keeps games alive.

[RipperX]

Skyrim has no multiplayer interface AT ALL (because Bethesda sucks balls)
What you're asking for is impossible



http://www.computerandvideogames.com/296453/bethesda-explains-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-multiplayer-omission/

True stupidity uttered by a lazy cheap stupid dev who is stuck in the past.  Multiplayer drives game sales and keeps games alive.

They "say" it's not possible, but anything is possible, and that's why I'm asking someone who actually writes code.

[Digglez]

They "say" it's not possible, but anything is possible, and that's why I'm asking someone who actually writes code.

I can give you a box of tools to fix up my car, but without tires you arent going to be driving it anywhere.

You cant just mod multiplayer into a single player game, multiplayer is closely tied with how the game functions.  Only game that has done it to my knowledge is a mod for GTA 4, which I dont think any good (worse than APB gameplay).

[Tomas_of_Miles]

I can give you a box of tools to fix up my car, but without tires you arent going to be driving it anywhere.

You cant just mod multiplayer into a single player game, multiplayer is closely tied with how the game functions.  Only game that has done it to my knowledge is a mod for GTA 4, which I dont think any good (worse than APB gameplay).

I think it is "possible" but like you say it wouldn't translate over very well. The server would have to be a complete beast, and the amount of data that would have to be sent back to clients would be insane. The butterflies would lag the shit out of the game. 

[Bobthehero]

http://csusap.csu.edu.au/~mloxto01/

Abandonned and almost without features, but its there.

[bilwit]

Skyrim's combat is complete and utter garbage anyways. Why would you want to play with other people with that?

[Joxer]

+1. I wont be getting skyrim cause the combat is retarted. No mounted combat and the archery is bs too. They should just remake the world with more realistic and flat features. Add mounted combat and redo archery + melee like warband has it. That's a mod I'd pay money for.

[Joxer]

 

[Byrdi]

Only game that has done it to my knowledge is a mod for GTA 4,

Ever heard of Counter Strike?

And yeah as posted there is a somewhat useful multiplayer mod for TES4. I doubt chadz would be able to pull it off, but there might be other people who will be giving a multiplayer mod for TES5

[Skysong]

Ever heard of Counter Strike?

What he ment was multiplayer mod for a game which had no multiplayer.

Counter strike was a mod for half-life which already had multiplayer.

[Ozin]

There are several multiplayer mods that have added mp functionality to GTA Vice City and San Andreas. They are "simpler" games than Skyrim though, and it took several years to polish into something playable.

[Deathwhisper]

+1. I wont be getting skyrim cause the combat is retarted. No mounted combat and the archery is bs too. They should just remake the world with more realistic and flat features. Add mounted combat and redo archery + melee like warband has it. That's a mod I'd pay money for.

This. As with Oblivion, mods will be needed to have an interesting combat system. I just hope Skyrim is as moddable as Oblivion.

[ShinySpoons]

Theres multiplayer mods for most iterations of Fallout. A fully singleplayer game. Modded for multiplayer.

[RipperX]

Theres multiplayer mods for most iterations of Fallout. A fully singleplayer game. Modded for multiplayer.

I think Co-Op in Skyrim would be epic, 2-4 players.