Eclipse Games on Super Toy Cars’ upcoming patch, lack of online
Posted on July 31, 2014 by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U eShop
Eclipse Games has discussed the upcoming patch for Super Toy Cars and has also provided an explanation as to why the title lacks online play.
As far as what the patch offers, Eclipse told Nintendo Life that it will add leaderboards and off-TV play. Collision issues have been addressed, and other crashes will be fixed.
You can find full comments from Eclipse founder Eduardo Jimenez below, which also cover the lack of online play in Super Toy Cars.
In this patch we are adding leaderboards (global and friends only), off-TV play mode, and we’ve ironed out most collision issues highlighted by reviews. We’re also fixing a couple of crashes too. We may still need another patch for bugs in the editor and other stuff.
Online multiplayer is not currently planned. Why? Well, for starters as you know developing online multiplayer for a game is no easy feat. We already have it working for PC, but we’re using Steam libraries to help us with that. We would need to write a lot of new code to port the online version from PC to Wii U.
Finally, and this is particularly important, we only have a test kit and a dev kit. That means we can only test 2 player multiplayer and not in the best circumstances (2 dev kits would work better). Even if could afford to buy more kits, which we can’t at the moment, we’re only 3 people in this team, we can hardly do 4-5 player tests.
In PC it was so much easier because we could just release a beta version to some friends and do 4-5 players tests. That’s not so easy in Wii U.
That all said, we may talk to Nintendo about it and see if there’s some sort of middleware we could use to try to get online multiplayer up and running with what we have. I’ve heard there are solutions (like Photon) that could be of help with that. I’m not sure how reliable it is to do most tests in PC and then only 2 player tests on Wii U. It sounds very risky if you ask me, but on the other hand so many people are asking for online multiplayer…
