Play A Short Hike in multiplayer with 99 others in this April Fool’s gag

On By Garmin Philip
Play A Short Hike in multiplayer with 99 others in this April Fool's gag

A Short Hike is one of my favorite games and I’ve completed it twice, once on PC and once on Switch. Now I’m thinking of having another go thanks to A Short Hike 99, an “unofficial” multiplayer mode created by original developer Adam Robinson-Yu as an April Fool’s gag.

Is it still a gag if you actually make the thing?

While the mod exists and is playable, it’s not and won’t be an official mode. That means Robinson-Yu is planning on keeping his server live for only two weeks.

As other tweets explain, this isn’t a battle royale mode. There are very few ways for players to interact with one another in A Short Hike, bar standing one each other’s headsand some of the physics objects don’t like dealing with multiple people.

Still, the reason I love A Short Hike is that it’s a lovely place to hang out. It’s nice to hang out in it with other people. Any person I’ve met in the mod – there are 18 people online right now – has jumped in front of me a few times, as if to say hello, and then we’ve simply jogged around together for a few minutes. Eventually one of us flies off a ledge and we go our separate ways. The perfect relationship.

If you own A Short Hike on Steam, you can access the mod by right-clicking on the game, going to Properties > Betas, and then opting in to “ashorthike99_mod”. If you then load up and start a game, you’ll automatically connect to the multiplayer server. If you own the game elsewhere, you can grab the mod/patch from Itchwhere you’ll also find instructions on how to install it and how to run your own server.



Reference-www.rockpapershotgun.com