Gun Interactive Confirms No Offline Mode For The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

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For some of you, not having an offline mode or bots seems pretty understanding for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre video game. It’s a PvP-focused title with a mix of a murderous family and survivors seeking an escape. However, you might have assumed a feature would be implemented since Gun Interactive also brought out Friday the 13: The Game. This title also featured an offline game mode where players could go through some matches with nothing but bots. Unfortunately, that won’t be the case for this upcoming horror multiplayer game.

The folks over at MP1ST managed to speak with Gun Interactive about their upcoming release, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. During their conversations, it was asked if this game would receive an offline mode similar to Friday the 13th: The Game. But according to a statement, no consideration was made as this feature alone would have taken the development team too much time. In particular, as mentioned, it’s a feature they had experience with in the past, but that is incredibly time-consuming.

We did not consider offline bots for this title. We learned a lot from Friday the 13th and the time that is required to make a feature like that. Believable bots in games are incredibly time consuming and difficult to do well. This would have cut our main game features back dramatically, thus impacting the overall experience we wanted to create. That was our focus. Push the asymmetrical horror genre forward as much as possible. And that comes from an unwavering goal of creating a unique PvP experience steeped in the world of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

So, the developers didn’t have the time to create this offline game mode and believable bots. Doing so would have meant cutting back on several other