Saber Interactive’s Expeditions: A Mudrunner Game has now gained a killer feature: multiplayer co-op. The communal online mode is now accessible as a beta build on the PC Steam version only, adding a whole new perspective to its driving experience.
A total of four players can now drive cooperatively, providing the kind of feature that made its predecessor Snowrunner so popular with fans.
Despite Expeditions releasing in March 2024 and a major ‘Breaking Ground’ update being released last month, multiplayer had yet to materialise, angering a portion of the game’s passionate community.
Saber Interactive has built up a solid back catalogue of driving exploration games, however, with the likes of the aforementioned Snowrunner, Dakar Desert Rally and a reimagined version of the classic Mudrunner experience, Mudrunner VR, released recently.
Saber Interactive will no doubt hope Expeditions’ latest co-op beta build will appease some of the concerns raised by fans, especially as all players don’t need to own DLC to play with friends: as long as the host owns the DLC, others can participate freely, with mods also being compatible in co-op mode.
All the details on how to download the beta build listed below.
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How to access Expeditions: A Mudrunner Game’s co-operative mode
- Back up your game saves
- From your Steam client, go to your “Library”, and right-click on Expeditions.
- Go to “Properties”.
- Go to “Betas”
- Enter the following line code under “Private betas” to access the Public Beta Branch branch: IBackedUpMySaves
- Click “check code”.
- Congrats! You have access to the Public Beta Branch.
- Close the window, your game will update automatically.
Expeditions: A Mudrunner Game co-op beta changelog
New Game set-up tools:
- The host is able to set a parameter to allow / forbid / ask for confirmation before a trade is done between players
Available Features:
- DLCs are compatible: if host and guests have different DLCs, they are still able to play together.
- DLC content owned by the host is available to guests as long as the host deploys them on the map (DLC trucks, DLC specialists, etc).
- Mods are compatible and/or warn players if different mods may cause instability.
- Gameplay is balanced around co-op. For instance, all airdrops on all maps have double-amount of loot.
Others:
- All players are able to see map exploration.
- All players are able to complete objectives and make the quest progress.
- All players are able to receive the rewards for completed expeditions and quests.
- All players are able to interact with built base modules, but only host can build/sell modules.
- All players are able to interact with each other through collision and using the winch.
- All players are able to interact with treasures (amethyst rocks in the Kanab Creek region).
- Players are allowed to travel to a different map in the same region without ending the multiplayer session. Two players in the same session are allowed to be on different maps.
- Restoring progress after a reconnect is allowed: in cases of connection loss, the player can load back into the game session (within a 5 minutes period), bypassing the expedition preparations.
