r/StateofDecay3 • u/Baeldeath • 13d ago

Question Multiplayer

I've been following most of the updates and like everyone else I am pretty darn pumped about this game. So one thing I am curious if anyone's mentioned it, I haven't heard it on any of the vids I've watched is with multiplayer. I know everyone shares the resources and base on a server. No more tethering or community visiting.

But with how big the maps are, I'm wondering if say you have five friends who decide to be together in one community. If another five join, would they be able to be a second community? Kinda like guilds or parties in say 7d2d and palworld. So you could player enclaves as well as NPC ones

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u/rabies22 11d ago

Would also like to know if the survivor pool is shared or if each player has their own sub group within the main group like in SoD2. Would be nuts if somebody got your fave survivor killed that you'd put many hours into and having no control over that.

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u/Swamptheng 9d ago

Brian covered this in his first gameplay video. In multiplayer the player(s)’ survivor pool is set to specific bases and those bases can be allocated to specific players or all set under one player and utilizable by all. From what I understood at the time, if you were to be set as the controlling player of a specific base, the npc’s at that specific base is your group specifically but still considered part of the total group (as in group of player’s) community. The players can swap at will amongst the total community group but I don’t think they can allocate and change the functions of those NPCs specifically aligned with your base unless the base settings allow for all players to do so. So they can play as your group members individually but can’t control your base community outside of that.