Bread & Fred News

One of the most requested features for Bread & Fred has been online multiplayer. We've heard all of your requests and we can say that we've been working on Online for quite a while now.

We've been working really hard to create the best experience for the game, but we're not quite there yet.

[h2]So, quick answers:[/h2]
[h3]WILL BREAD & FRED HAVE ONLINE?[/h3] Yes
[h3]WILL ONLINE BE AVAILABLE ON LAUNCH? [/h3]No

Peer-2-Peer multiplayer mode will not quite be ready upon the game's release on May 23rd. We hope to have it ready by the next content update (which should be out during the month of June!). In the meantime, Steam itself provides a "Remote Play Together" mode that works pretty well in most cases, assuming the two players are not more than a few hundred miles apart. And of course, the game supports two-player mode from the same PC.

[h2]Why is it taking so long?[/h2]

We're a small team of developers and online multiplayer is always a challenge! But for Bread & Fred it's an even bigger monster. While on most games you can allow for some lag within the players, in Bread & Fred, each action of one player directly affects the other (changing his position, velocity, rotation...) that makes creating a smooth experience much harder as a bit of lag from one end can cause a massive changes in game physics for both players.

We don't feel comfortable with the current state of P2P multiplayer and we don't want to deliver a laggy and unfinished experience. That's why we've come to a decision of delaying it a bit and having this extra month to really polish it and ship the online multiplayer experience that the game deserves.

We hope to have P2P working soon! Thanks for understanding!