State of Decay scraps plans for co-op

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Undead Labs drops previously delayed multiplayer mode

State of Decay's apocalyptic open world will remain a lonely one. Undead Labs today posted on its official forums that plans to add a co-op mode to the best-selling-short-of-Minecraft XBLA title were dropped in favor of a more realistic schedule.

"It's not simply a matter of adding the technology, but also redesigning core game systems to support multiple players, and then adding new content designed for people to play together," executive producer Jeff Strain wrote. "It's easy to imagine how all that would come together--as many have said, the game is practically begging for it--but retrofitting the game to add that experience would take the rest of this year, and well into the next."

The studio is in talks with Microsoft about future plans for DLC, title updates, and potential sequels. A PC version is still coming along, but not "soon," according to an interview with Rock, Paper, Shotgun.

Strain promised that "multiplayer will be the absolute heart of any future State of Decay games."

Connor Sheridan
Connor Sheridan

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar.