Updated on 2/15/2023 at 3:25 p.m
- Released a week ago, “Hogwarts Legacy” allows players to follow in the footsteps of Harry Potter.
- However, the sorcerer’s apprentices are traveling as solo players.
- This does not necessarily have to be the case, as modders are currently proving.
Occasional crashes are reported on the PC version and the controversy over the supposed transphobia of “Harry Potter” author JK Rowling is keeping some gamers from buying it, but apart from that “Hogwarts Legacy” has been largely positively received by the Potter community. This is also shown by corresponding ratings on Steam.
For fans of story-heavy solo player adventures, “Hogwarts Legacy” is pure magic, but multiplayer friends get nothing. At least that’s the plan of the makers of Avalanche Software. Modders who have succeeded in creating a working prototype of a multiplayer mode are currently proving that there is another way. The multiplayer option currently being worked on by the so-called Together Team is called “Hogwarp”.
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The current status of development: A test version, in which two players can travel together in the same section of the map, is already working. This is shown in a “Test Build” video. However, the video also shows that there are still occasional drops in performance during duo play.
The fact that the modder plan for a multiplayer option is so mature so soon following the release is because the Together team can draw on its wealth of experience from mods that have already been successful. The scene gurus are known, among other things, for “Skyrim Together” (a multiplayer mod for Bethesda’s role-playing game) and a multiplayer element for the cat SciFi adventure “Stray”. The latter uses the same version of the Unreal Engine (namely 4.27.2) as “Hogwarts Legacy”.
The vision of the modders: In the end, a co-op variant of “Hogwarts Legacy” should be playable for up to eight gamers who should work together as a group. Currently, players can only use the trial version ” once morest admission” – with a donation of at least ten euros per month on Patreon to the Together Team. Later this month, however, a version will be available to everyone free of charge. It is not yet known what the Avalanche game developer thinks regarding the modders’ arbitrary ideas.
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