Adam the Waster
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Tbh split screen has been dying lately and I would rather have better performance then split screen
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Baldurs gate 3 just came out and it has local coop, all Gears of war and borderlands all have local coop. Not going to say minecraft as that game is much more simple, but Ark is about as close as you can get to 7 days and it has local coop. The first dwarf coming out in 2025 has split screen.
It's possible to do, but I get the juice is not worth the squeeze financially.
Side note annoyed that I won't get any discount as I purchased the disk when it first released... my online buddy got digital after playing on my couch when the wife was not around.
Only question I have is do I upgrade wife's Xbox one to a series X and two copies so the three of us can play. Or protest game over all my lost bases with the original, cut local and no random maps at launch...
I got my monies worth with original but still feel like I'm stuck in the kids table, and if the new game is lagy or buggy and i complain here some mods will say be glad i got the game on my lame console and if i want to enjoy it buy a PC, or banned
It's possible to do, but I get the juice is not worth the squeeze financially.
Side note annoyed that I won't get any discount as I purchased the disk when it first released... my online buddy got digital after playing on my couch when the wife was not around.
Only question I have is do I upgrade wife's Xbox one to a series X and two copies so the three of us can play. Or protest game over all my lost bases with the original, cut local and no random maps at launch...
I got my monies worth with original but still feel like I'm stuck in the kids table, and if the new game is lagy or buggy and i complain here some mods will say be glad i got the game on my lame console and if i want to enjoy it buy a PC, or banned
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7 days is one of only 2 games my wife and I play together, will split screen be made available to the game in a dlc? My wife and I both love the game when we can play together via split screen, we have tried to play on using different consoles that are set up in different rooms just to see how we liked it, it wasn't as fun and we completely lost the sense of togetherness that the original verson gave us. No split screen could be the strongest decision making issue that could cause us to give up on the new release. Please at some point make this possible. Thank you
SylenThunder
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Not sure why you posted this in the meeting room, but it has already been asked and answered in Console General Discussion.
Jugginator
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Unfortunately, the current gen consoles are too weak on hardware to support split screen by any stretch or means. It wasn't taken lightly internally, but it just isn't possible. You can try using voice chat to help 
my wife and I play in the same room using headsets (granted on PC) and we enjoy it.
my wife and I play in the same room using headsets (granted on PC) and we enjoy it.
BFT2020
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You can try using voice chat to help
The fact that you both are in the same room and still use headsets made me chuckle.
My wife is really not a gamer and will only play games like Mario Kart. There is no way I could convince her to play 7 Days to Die
Jugginator
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Lol it's to prevent audio soup between the both of us, it depends on what game. Plus headset audio is way better than monitor speakers, also when we're in group chats with others, don't want to transmit a bunch of game audio over mics
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Mr developers , pleasssssseeeeeeee , add split screen option to the console version , i was originaly planing to buy it on release date with full price but when i knew it hasnt split screen feature now i cant buy it because it will be useless for me , i never play alone , always with my cousins , please please and please add local co-op option , dont lose that many customers pleasee
I perfered local coop with wife far more than online with friend when playing original version... . But with Enshrouded and Nightengale coming I broke down and purchased a 2nd series X..
Keep an eye out for Fist dwarf next year it will have local coop, but not many game developers want to spend the money on couch play
Keep an eye out for Fist dwarf next year it will have local coop, but not many game developers want to spend the money on couch play
SylenThunder
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I am certain that if the hardware supported it, they would have allowed split-screen co-op for the console. Unlike other games, this one requires some hefty CPU processing and a good bit of RAM. The console is lacking in both of those because it's sharing them for the graphics. For most games that only care about the GPU, it is easy.
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developers , please add split screen feature for console edition , it is not fun without co-op option
If Ark had minecrafts fully destructible world then it would be a close comparison. if 7d2d had not upgraded its graphics that much it would have been more like minecraft and would have been "small" enough to fit into consoles with split-screen.
Fact is that 7d2d had to fight unique performance problems for all of the last ~7 years of development and needed a top rig all that time to run comfortably even though the graphics was at first far below anything released at that time. I bet no other game has that much disk traffic and no other game with such a graphic is that much CPU-bound as this one. Many people are underestimating how much it cost to make a fully destructible world instead of a static world.
Other games with fully destructible world had performance problems as well as soon as their graphics gets above a certain quality. Look at Empyrion for example.
Though recently Enshrouded came out and it has a destructible world and a high graphics quality though I don't know how far down. They may have found optimizations and tricks to make it possible to get a performant fully destructible world, but it would probably be a monumental task to redesign 72d2 to use those techniques, even if they could be theoretically applied. My guess is that Enshrouded only creates a thin layer of destructible world on every accessible surface. The interesting question is whether it can dynamically enlarge the destructible part when someone digs down or not. The latter is probable, otherwise they would include the fully destructible world in their marketing. If the former, it would be theoretically a way for 7D2D to improve, but it would be a major rewrite in size similar to writing a new engine to get it in.
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Kitsune6969
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Developers. Pretty please bring back couch co-op for PS5. My husband, our friends and I love playing this game together on PS4 because it was one of the few couch co-ops available. We were greatly looking forward to this release, but now we see no point in purchasing this version because there is no couch co-op. Please continue being the Fun Pimps we all know and love and bring couch co-op to consoles. Y'all could even double or triple the price to cover the cost of doing so and we would gladly pay it.
SylenThunder
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It isn't something a "pretty please" is going to fix. Not even something TFP can "just do".
The reason there is no split-screen couch co-op is because none of the consoles have the core hardware required to support the amount of processing and RAM required to be able to do it.
Either the game will need to be dumbed down to Minecraft quality mechanics where a held torch doesn't even light up the area around you and there is no real AI or structural integrity, or the console developers need to start shipping consoles with real hardware like dedicated GPU's with independent VRAM so the full 16GB RAM and CPU processing is actually usable by the client.
RavenJadewolfe
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I am legally blind and I can only play this with my husband's help on split screen. I'm severely disappointed in the lack of split screen on the new console version. Very unhappy with this product/franchise now.
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