A recent interview has finally revealed why the online multiplayer game was missing from The Quarry in the first release of the game.
The Quarry is the latest horror game based on Supermassive Games options and is already a hit among fans of the developer’s previous work. Considered by our own publisher David Smith to be “one of the best games of the year,” The Quarry returns to the classic co-op with drivers that differentiates the Supermassive catalog.
However, the title also had to have an online multiplayer mode, which would allow up to eight players to come together in one game. The host of the game will have control over the game, while the other players will vote on the choices made. It’s almost like a poll-based Nuzlocke race.
Unfortunately, this online multiplayer mode was delayed until July 8 “at the latest.” At that time, no reason was given for the delay.
An update to The Quarry’s online multiplayer: pic.twitter.com/Bipo0yxp2g
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Thanks to an interview between IGN and the creative director of The Quarry, Will Byles, we now know that, similar to other games developed over the past year, this delay was directly related to the ongoing war in Ukraine. Byles explains, “We had something a little weird with the multiplayer because … part of our team is based in Ukraine, so we had to delay the multiplayer because they had to move.”
Byles then goes on to argue that the move of the server from Kyiv, Ukraine, to Warsaw, Poland, is a notable factor in the delay, and that the multiplayer mode is already over.
“So we had to move the server from Kyiv to Warsaw and these guys had to leave because it was obviously very dangerous. It will literally take a couple of weeks. It’s actually done. Now it has to go through testing.”
Because the Ukrainian sector of Supermassive Games only worked in online multiplayer mode, the rest of the game was not affected by the other aspects of gameplay still included. GameRevolution also notes that The Quarry’s achievement trophies were not affected by the multiplayer delay because there was no achievement linked to online multiplayer.
As the interview says, Stone mine‘S online multiplayer mode is still in the process of being released on July 8 and will be available through an update.