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Someone posted recently in this community about a The Days Before single player mod that may be developed and it made me wonder.

As servers for games are shutdown I occasionally see fan-run replacements but I'm curious about singleplayer and offline mods. It seems like more of a niche as not all multiplayer games would work as well without other players.

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[–] eratic@feddit.uk 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I tried SPT a few months ago (with additional mods) and it was enjoyable especially if you like tarkov. There's a mod which makes the maps connected, where different extractions lead to other maps. There's lots of things you can do to make the singleplayer experience better.

Although I've ended up playing the GAMMA modpack for STALKER Anomaly instead. It has what I look for in tarkov, and then some.

[–] LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] MomentsInTruth@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Thanks 🌿

[–] eratic@feddit.uk 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Single player tarkov, the mod that the RPS article is talking about

[–] Crafter72@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thank you so much for this, I had no idea, I played this a lot as a kid.

[–] Crafter72@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

np, NFS World probably bit niche side of NFS even though there was EA Black Box involvement on that game, while the original World has MTX nature, the emulated server deletes them and convert them into the same in game currency that you won from events.

I keeping tab on NFS Edge restoration (Project Verge) as I never played them (It was China only iirc) and it seems pretty fun if the MTX part are gone, hopefully they can manage to replicate the success like in SBRW to allow custom community server.

[–] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago

I know it's technically not a mod but most older versions of RuneScape can be played "offline" by creating a personal private server. Everything from RSC to HDScape can have private servers but I don't think I've seen private servers for RS3.

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Did cs2 have offline mode? I remember playing cs1.6 against bot, it's quite fun.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Yeah, it was called "Half-Life."

[–] tekila@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Yes CS2 has an offline mode.

[–] Abucketofpuppies@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

It does, but no lab so far

[–] HeavyRaptor@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Escape from Tarkov has a very good single player mod called SPTAKI

[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The article I linked with the post was about that. I still can't think of a lot of other examples though

[–] HeavyRaptor@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yep sorry, just read the post didn't check the link

[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 2 points 2 years ago

No worries. It was a good recommendation

[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Modders are almost finishing a private server for Dragon's Dogma Online, you can even host your own, enemy spawns were the newest breakthrough, but I couldn't take any quests.

Good thing is that there's a money cheat and every shop sells it's entire year stock, even collabs, christmas, etc. Anyway here's everything it does and how to get it.

[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That sounds wicked. Almost like it would be the preferable version for newcomers and hardcore fans alike. Even over the official servers if they are still up.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Omfg. Thanks for sharing this. Ddon is my favourite really generic fantasy game and I really missed the qol changes over dark arisen. I see there is still work to do but I'm likely going to be testing this out in the new year. I really miss the spell casting inputs, my favourite of all games with magic where I actually feel like I'm personally making the spell stronger rather than just minmaxing stats or charging for stupidly long ultimately reducing DPS.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Still super in progress and a genuine pain to set up last I checked, but grasscutter (name iirc) for genshin impact. I was hosting a server my friends and I played on and we just played in a gtfo gacha configuration. It's one of the few I know of being reversed while the game is still live on official.

[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I saw that some time ago but I remember reading that they didn't have enemy spawns and AI, something like that.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

There were enemies the last time I tried it but they weren't perfect or totally accurate to any particular version of official. Quests were also really hit or miss and some required manually overriding as cleared. some public servers automated this but I couldn't find much on the procedures when I was hosting one.

[–] superbirra@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago
[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Local co-op games, or just strictly games that are multiplayer with an offline single player mode/main game story line?

[–] Master@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I wish the devs would just fuck off and let us coop against bots with progression or let mods do it.