Gamers can carry unlocks throughout sure platforms
Circling again on final 12 months’s port announcement, Klei Leisure has confirmed the Nintendo Swap launch date for Don’t Starve Collectively, a difficult multiplayer survival sport the place issues go bump within the night time — the Swap model lands on April 12, 2022. The studio additionally detailed an incoming “shared unlocks” function for present gamers.
There’s quite a bit to dig into, however the function boils right down to carrying your Don’t Starve Collectively character skins, recipes, and different unlocks “throughout taking part platforms,” which on this case interprets to Nintendo Swap, Xbox One, Steam, and WeGame, however not PS4 — at the very least not but. As Klei explains, “the necessities to get [shared unlocks] on to PlayStation are greater than a studio our dimension can deal with for such a service.”
“We’ve been making ready for this for a very long time and now that we’ve got a number of platforms able to take part, we determined to maneuver ahead,” mentioned Klei. “We perceive that that is going to be very disappointing for some gamers and we wish you to know that if/after we could make this occur for you, we’ll implement it as quickly as we presumably can.”
When the time comes (the present estimate is “quickly”), Don’t Starve Collectively gamers can “merge a number of platform accounts onto a single Klei Account and seamlessly use your gadgets on the whole lot related. This contains crockpot recipes, plant registry, merchandise skins, and characters that you just gained by way of drops together with woven characters and skins.”
Requested about potential duplicate character skins after merging participant accounts, a developer mentioned that there shall be dupes, however there’s going to be a “deduplicator (helpful for all accounts however particularly merged ones) to eradicate extra loyal gadgets.”
The subject of full-on cross-play for Don’t Starve Collectively additionally got here up, and that’s one thing Klei “would like to do.” In the meanwhile, although, the duty is simply too resource-intensive.
The Swap trailer from December remains to be price a watch for those who haven’t stored up with Don’t Starve Collectively. It’s a well-liked sport to this day — there are 8,000-some concurrent gamers on Steam proper now as I write this text, placing the sport just behind Complete Battle: Warhammer III, Sea of Thieves, and Cookie Clicker. I by no means acquired very far, even when I tally up all of my numerous makes an attempt, a lot of the footage is new to me. What an attention-grabbing world.
Jordan Devore
Jordan is a founding member of Destructoid and poster of seemingly random footage. They’re something however random.
