There's No Stellar Blade Multiplayer Mod, but There Are Signs of Multiplayer in the Game Files

Reports that modders unlocked a concealed multiplayer mode successful Stellar Blade aren't rather arsenic they seem, claims the subordinate who archetypal posted a split-screen gameplay video that's going viral crossed societal media.

While overnight reports popped up that Stellar Blade developer Shift Up had built a defunct multiplayer mode straight into the game, the modder who discovered it and shared a two-player gameplay clip of Stellar Blade successful Discord has insisted this is not the case.

"I woke up to everyone posting clips that I shared successful a Discord wholly retired of context, I avoided tweeting these for a reason," PhantomSomnus wrote connected X/Twitter. PhantomSomnus past explained that "split-screen mode is built into Unreal Engine, [Stellar Blade developer] Shift Up did not make it."

That's however PhantomSomnus managed to load a 2nd Eve into their game. The split-screen multiplayer successful the video was not developed by Shift Up, it was made by PhantomSomnus utilizing Unreal Engine's autochthonal section multiplayer support. "The crushed wherefore I acceptable up split-screen was to spot if I could get immoderate of it to work, but arsenic you tin spot I failed," PhantomSomnus explained successful a station connected Reddit.

O modder @phantomSomnus encontrou nos arquivos de Stellar Blade referências a multiplayer.
E neste vídeo, com uma 2ª Eve spawnada, a tela surpresamente se disagreement em duas, como se o jogo estivesse preparado para um modo co-op section (dois controles)#StellarBlade #StellarBladePC https://t.co/QIeiu5lKSI pic.twitter.com/rp7oudcnV2

"There ARE signs of multiplayer successful the game," PhantomSomnus said, "but they're online only." A erstwhile station of theirs includes a screenshot depicting what they recovered erstwhile digging astir the demo's backend. The "old scrapped/unused multiplayer PVP mode," arsenic Somnus calls it, nary longer works, but they did observe "some menus near over."

Does this mean beryllium immoderate benignant of multiplayer update oregon mod successful the aboriginal for Stellar Blade? "Very unlikely," PhantomSomnus said.

The PC mentation of Stellar Blade launches via Steam connected June 11 on with a raft of PC-specific features, including AI upscaling via Nvidia DLSS 4 and AMD FSR 3, an unlocked framerate, Japanese and Chinese voiceover, ultrawide show support, higher solution situation textures, and DualSense enactment for haptic feedback and trigger effects. It was primitively portion locked successful 100+ countries, but is present disposable to pre-order connected PC successful "over 250 regions."

IGN's Stellar Blade reappraisal returned a 7/10. We said: "Stellar Blade is large successful each of the astir important ways for an enactment game, but dull characters, a lackluster story, and respective frustrating elements of its RPG mechanics forestall it from soaring on with the champion of the genre."

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