Similar-ish story here. I set up a Minecraft server for the household and set up Minecraft on the Switch so my kid can play it. Turns out you have to have a fucking Nintendo subscription to play online in Minecraft on the goddamn Switch on my own server that’s on my own local network in my own house.
Let’s not even mention that you can’t even add a custom server on the switch, you can only play preselected servers or Minecraft realms that you have to pay for. I had to do essentially DNS fuckery to make that work.
Fuck these companies.
fishy@lemmy.today 1 week ago
I bought Minecraft for switch to play with my son. What a shit experience it was.
First off, it took like an hour of trial and error to even get the two of us playing in split screen. Then I realized that to render split screen the game had reduced the draw distance to like 1/4th of what it was on PC years ago. We dealt with it until we actually had a good area built up and the frame rate dropped to like 10fps. Then my wife accidentally let Minecraft update and it bricked split screen until I completely turned off the switches WiFi.
Recently purchased Java for PC, spent another hour getting couch co-op going on that and it’s a completely different experience.
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 6 days ago
To be fair, most of your complaint is about the hardware of a low-power device not being able to handle rendering double the game and then compensating accordingly.
Which is an expected outcome.
fishy@lemmy.today 6 days ago
The game is advertised and sold as having split screen co-op. Having to mess with console settings to get it to work and the resulting experience being shit isn’t excusable. Of course I didn’t expect a full PC equivalent but I expected it to have a minimum of polish and optimization.
If they couldn’t make the game do split screen decently, they shouldn’t put that as a feature. If the game can’t be run decently in single player, they shouldn’t have sold it at all.