Reviews that modders unlocked a secret multiplayer mode in Stellar Blade aren’t fairly as they appear, claims the participant who first posted a split-screen gameplay video that is going viral throughout social media.
Whereas in a single day reports popped up that Stellar Blade developer Shift Up had constructed a defunct multiplayer mode instantly into the sport, the modder who found it and shared a two-player gameplay clip of Stellar Blade in Discord has insisted this isn’t the case.
“I woke as much as everybody posting clips that I shared in a Discord utterly out of context, I prevented tweeting these for a motive,” PhantomSomnus wrote on X/Twitter. PhantomSomnus then defined that “split-screen mode is constructed into Unreal Engine, [Stellar Blade developer] Shift Up didn’t create it.”
That is how PhantomSomnus managed to load a second Eve into their sport. The split-screen multiplayer in the video was not developed by Shift Up, it was made by PhantomSomnus utilizing Unreal Engine’s native native multiplayer assist. “The rationale why I arrange split-screen was to see if I might get any of it to work, but as you’ll be able to see I failed,” PhantomSomnus defined in a publish on 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 divide em duas, como se o jogo estivesse preparado para um modo co-op native (dois controles)#StellarBlade #StellarBladePC https://t.co/QIeiu5lKSI pic.twitter.com/rp7oudcnV2— Stellar Blade Brasil (@StellarBladeBR) June 1, 2025
“There ARE indicators of multiplayer in the sport,” PhantomSomnus mentioned, “but they’re on-line solely.” A previous post of theirs includes a screenshot depicting what they discovered when digging round the demo’s backend. The “previous scrapped/unused multiplayer PVP mode,” as Somnus calls it, not works, but they did discover “some menus left over.”
Does this imply be any variety of multiplayer replace or mod in the future for Stellar Blade? “Most unlikely,” PhantomSomnus mentioned.
The PC model of Stellar Blade launches through Steam on June 11 together with a raft of PC-specific options, together with AI upscaling through Nvidia DLSS 4 and AMD FSR 3, an unlocked framerate, Japanese and Chinese language voiceover, ultrawide show assist, larger decision setting textures, and DualSense assist for haptic suggestions and set off results. It was initially area locked in 100+ international locations, but is now out there to pre-order on PC in “over 250 regions.”
IGN’s Stellar Blade assessment returned a 7/10. We mentioned: “Stellar Blade is nice in all of the most essential methods for an motion sport, but uninteresting characters, a lackluster story, and several other irritating components of its RPG mechanics stop it from hovering together with the greatest of the style.”
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