In a brief announcement on the Steam community page of recently released hit sensation Goat Simulator, Armin Ibrisagic of Coffee Stain Studios – the developer – confirmed that the title will be receiving local splitscreen multiplayer amongst other things.
Since Coffee Stain Studios has Steam Workshop support at its disposal for Goat Simulator, the studio doesn’t particularly want to charge you for additional content for the game. Instead, they will be adding a free content update with patch 1.1, which will be arriving sometime next month.
“A lot of you have been asking for DLCs for Goat Simulator. However, since we have Steam Workshop support, we’d feel bad charging for DLC when you can just download stuff for free at the workshop,” Ibrisagic stated. “We still want to make new content though, so we found a compromise: we’re going to add a completely free content update with patch 1.1, coming in the middle of May!”
The game’s patch 1.1 will introduce a new playable map that will be roughly around the same size as the original map; local splitscreen multiplayer, as mentioned earlier; new achievements; new goats; and more. Online multiplayer for Goat Simulator doesn’t quite work because the studio can’t synchronize the physics it is using for the game across different computers, Ibrisagic reaffirmed.
Goat Simulator was initially developed as a joke from an internal game jam, and was later shown in an early Alpha state on YouTube. The game was then met with palpable hype, which thus encouraged Coffee Stain Studios to develop the game further for release, but the studio kept in a lot of non-breaking bugs and glitches in order to maintain the title’s fun value.
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