jacobvandy wrote on Feb 25, 2023, 01:09:

Steele Johnson wrote on Feb 24, 2023, 22:34:

jacobvandy wrote on Feb 24, 2023, 20:27:
I really like the deaf/dumb companion they give you for single-player. He makes building a lot easier (gathers whatever materials you tell him to) and is apparently an expert hand-fisherman!

The great thing about the previous game was that you could tweak a lot of the server settings and kind of create your own game type. I always played co-op and made it scary and tense. Gliding along with ease in the game wasn't very fun.

Well, he's not a replacement for an actual co-op partner, mainly eases some of the tedium involved with solo-building something out of literally hundreds of logs. He can't use weapons or participate in combat in any way AFAICT, and he won't follow you into caves so you're still gonna be exploring the dark on your own... I did find out that he's present in multiplayer games, as well, but he's a lot less useful there just because players do everything he does more efficiently. But 'scary and tense' goes completely out the window if you're playing co-op anyway, in my experience.