We'll have to wait for MultiVersus local co-op, game director says
Warner Bros’ licensed brawler MultiVersus won’t be getting support for local couch co-op anytime soon, game director Tony Huynh has said. Huynh was replying to a question on Twitter about whether the MultiVersus team were working on implementing that most Nineties of features. Speaking of Nineties nostalgia, you can watch a retro trailer for MultiVersus below. Makes me feel ten again.
That doesn’t mean there won’t be couch co-op in MultiVersus at some point. Huynh qualified that playing together while sitting on comfortable furnishings of your choice was something that’s still “further out”. “Our focus right now is stabilizing our experience,” Huynh said. “Netcode improvements, hurt/hitboxes, projectiles, platform interactions, etc.”
One feature coming relatively soon though is the option to map specials and directional attacks for keyboard and controllers. This will be part of the next update, which Huynh says is “turning into a massive patch”. It’s always handy to have the choice to remap stuff like this for accessibility reasons, so its inclusion in the next patch is good to hear.
We rated MultiVersus as one of the best free games you can play on PC. Ed thought the game needed a bit of polish when entered open beta, but felt it was still way ahead of other Smash-likes. “It isn't filled with countless capsule machines, asking you to gamble away precious currencies of different shapes and sizes,” he said. “For a free-to-play title, it's an extremely slick operation that seems genuine in its intentions. It wants you to have a blast and it absolutely excels at it.”
MultiVersus is free to play on Steam and the Epic Games Store. You still can’t play as Ted Lasso, but Ollie has you covered with his tier list of the
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