Server Discussion Why No Boss multiplayer?

Hey anyone else confused why you can't fight bosses in multiplayer? Like to me I see an open window to be allowed to have some sort of co-op missions or some of the sorts....
but what I had in mind was some sort of team set up where each player gets two lives. If you die twice then you spectate the other players fight threw.
Just really want this game to have the same co-op feel as it did in enraged, just annoys me not being able to scale the game with friends or stay in the same levels as them

any thoughts?

 

You can fight them in multiplayer, not to the extent you're talking about but I was helping my friend get past the first one the other day

 

Woah wait how?

 

If you and your friend are in a party together you can both enter the mission from your own ships and fight the boss together. Add people to your party with the plus icon next to your face and health bar.

 

What he said, if you need any help with a boss or two just lemme know, I got a functioning server

 

Guys, fighting a boss in multiplayer will stop your character progress in single player. Think before you do this.

 

will it permanently stop progress or just stop progress until you do it again in single player?

 

No it won't. All you need to do is make sure that the player receives the items they need to move forward. How do you figure it will stop progression?

 

Multiple players reported having problems with progression after playing the mission in MP.

 

And what were the specifics of their playthroughs? I have no doubt there are issues with it, but to flat out say that fighting a boss in multiplayer WILL stop progression is not entirely true, considering i've helped out multiple people get through it so far and they have progressed just fine.

If there is a mission involving retrieving an item from the boss (Which is most of the missions if not all of them) then it's a simply matter of giving the players who need them the items needed for progression. So the question here is where and how do they get stuck, can you give a link to the threads in question?

 

That's not the problem with lack of items. You can always redo the mission and get more. People reported their SAILs not working after this, even if they progressed further in multi.

 

You can fight bosses, but it crashes starboundserver.exe shortly after leaving the mission map, for me atleast.

Just beat the boss. complete any quests inside the mission map then restart the server.

I already fought 2 bosses like this with no issues. All player's progress is fine.

 

Well that is a problem then.

Although if a person is incapable of beating a boss in the first place they would probably be interested in some help even at the risk of bugs