Petition for Offline/Online World Toggle

[OfflineOnline]

Can we please petition Klei Devs to consider adding an Offline/Online World Toggle for save files.

It is unjust that anyone should be deprived from playing their save file if they temporarily lose internet access.

It is an anti-consumer feature and should not be accepted in its current form.

Klei has an outstanding reputation and this is tarnishing that.

please do better klei. 
 

 

 

[DegenerateFurry]

You can play any world you make offline as far as I'm aware, whether that world was made online or not. Are you saving your worlds to the Steam Cloud or something?

[grm9]

4 minutes ago, DegenerateFurry said:

You can play any world you make offline as far as I'm aware, whether that world was made online or not

you can't

[DegenerateFurry]

6 minutes ago, grm9 said:

you can't

I just put Steam into offline mode, launched DST, clicked "play offline", and then went to launch one of my worlds. The entire list of them is available.

Edit: Oh, weird, it shows them in a list of worlds, but if I try to launch one, it does tell me I can't play them. That is indeed stupid, especially since these are worlds set to "local only". 

[Reiko24]

8 minutes ago, grm9 said:

you can't

you indeed can

 

edit: nevermind, you cannot if the world is not a server with only 1 player slot

[DegenerateFurry]

Just now, Reiko24 said:

you indeed can

Nah, I just edited my post because I tested it and you get this pop-up if you try. 

[Reiko24]

Just now, DegenerateFurry said:

Nah, I just edited my post because I tested it and you get this pop-up if you try. 

What? That is pretty weird. I remember playing DST a lot even when my internet wasn't working. I guess you probably only can play worlds that are "solo"?

[DegenerateFurry]

1 minute ago, Reiko24 said:

What? That is pretty weird. I remember playing DST a lot even when my internet wasn't working. I guess you probably only can play worlds that are "solo"?

I remember playing DST without a working internet connection too. Maybe this is a new thing? My worlds are all set to "local only", if that makes any difference. 

[OfflineOnline]

This has always been this way. The only way to change it is if you mess around with the save files which console players do not have access to. 
 

lets please try and push klei into adding a simple QoL feature which would make the game more accessible. 

[Mike23Ua]

Is the PC version of this game different from Xbox or Something? You can play offline worlds. Also even if you started a world and allowed 6 players to join, you can now go to that lovely little menu prior to launching your world, edit some settings and set it to a maximum of 1 players and relaunch the world again?

I am deeply confused now. :/ 

[Gashzer]

My problem with offline worlds is you lose all dlc characters if you try to start it.

Atleast on switch.

But why?? Switch should be the main console you shouldn't be punished for trying to play offline ( it's the one console you can carry about an lose Internet on)

[gaymime]

ugh, offline worlds are the worst. to punish you for not being online you aren't allowed to use your skins. it is the ONLY reason my long-term world is not set to offline. i am fine with not being able to get new skins while playing solo but not letting you use your current ones is rubbish

 

(they also do it when you set your world to 1 player only even though you are still online)

[Mike23Ua]

3 minutes ago, gaymime said:

ugh, offline worlds are the worst. to punish you for not being online you aren't allowed to use your skins. it is the ONLY reason my long-term world is not set to offline. i am fine with not being able to get new skins while playing solo but not letting you use your current ones is rubbish

??????

 

[Maxposting]

9 minutes ago, Mike23Ua said:

??????

It's very possible the game's code is different from PC, as it's very easy to change the code over here.

[OfflineOnline]

The issue is that if you start a save file as an online world, regardless of the number of people in the server or anything else, it is an online only world that you cannot play offline. 
 

if you start an offline world, you can not change it to an online world.

 

Its cannot be changed. 

[RozeMeteor]

22 minutes ago, gaymime said:

ugh, offline worlds are the worst. to punish you for not being online you aren't allowed to use your skins. it is the ONLY reason my long-term world is not set to offline. i am fine with not being able to get new skins while playing solo but not letting you use your current ones is rubbish

 

(they also do it when you set your world to 1 player only even though you are still online)

strange.. if my connection fall and i've download my data on a offline word before it i still can use characters and skins as well

[BezKa]

36 minutes ago, Gashzer said:

But why?

31 minutes ago, gaymime said:

to punish you for not being online you aren't allowed to use your skins.

Pretty sure that is a technical limitation. You need internet access to confirm you own the stuff.

[DegenerateFurry]

6 minutes ago, BezKa said:

Pretty sure that is a technical limitation. You need internet access to confirm you own the stuff.

That I can understand, but not even allowing us to play a world? That's just BS. 

[BezKa]

Just now, DegenerateFurry said:

That I can understand, but not even allowing us to play a world? That's just BS. 

I don't know anything about that. I used to be able to play offline no problem but last time I tried was during the Eye of Terror update, so they must have changed something

[Maxil20]

I do hope this gets looked into. I recently bought myself a steam deck, and I found out I can’t swap my world to offline whatsoever, which defeats a good chunk of why I bought a deck in the first place as a way to take a “console”/portable PC around and not need the internet to play games offline. Granted, my megabase doesn’t exactly do well on the deck, but it’s a shame it’s not an option at all.

[gaymime]

3 hours ago, BezKa said:

Pretty sure that is a technical limitation. You need internet access to confirm you own the stuff.

there is no reason they cannot use a token system that updates once you leave the world you are in to or just check during the game launch + while in the curios section to see what you do and do not have. if the ability to get in-game items during play is turned off then the game does NOT need to be constantly checking on the status of your item ownership while you are in-game

[DegenerateFurry]

1 hour ago, gaymime said:

there is no reason they cannot use a token system that updates once you leave the world you are in to or just check during the game launch + while in the curios section to see what you do and do not have. if the ability to get in-game items during play is turned off then the game does NOT need to be constantly checking on the status of your item ownership while you are in-game

This is true, and the obvious counter-argument (that people could use this to cheat skins into their world) is invalid because there's already a mod out there that lets you use skins you don't own in a server you're hosting if you have it installed by simply making modded skin copies of all the official ones. Not that I've used it. Someone told me in a Klei server, and I checked and it exists. 

[gaymime]

1 hour ago, DegenerateFurry said:

This is true, and the obvious counter-argument (that people could use this to cheat skins into their world) is invalid because there's already a mod out there that lets you use skins you don't own in a server you're hosting if you have it installed by simply making modded skin copies of all the official ones. Not that I've used it. Someone told me in a Klei server, and I checked and it exists. 

i actually used to use the version for solo because i missed my skins but the final update made it wonky. never saw anyone use that version tho

[Evelo]

I moved recently and was without internet for 6 days. I wanted to play DST but didn't because my worlds were inaccessible. I ended up playing Nova Drift and some other small games to pass the time till my appointment to establish internet came.

Really saddened that Don't Starve doesn't have this feature. I'd always play in Offline Worlds while online.

[Mike23Ua]

Are you guys trying to troll me or something? I posted a link officially from Klei stating there was an update to allow characters and skin usage in offline mode, did they remove this update or something?? I am super beyond confused right now.