Bait! (2016) is a single-player fishing sport that, though solely having obtained its final actual replace in 2016, remains to be round and kicking on Quest in all its 6DoF glory. Now builders at Decision Video games are releasing a serious content material drop at the moment within the new Fishin’ Buddies multiplayer replace.
The replace, which is now accessible on the Quest Retailer, brings multiplayer to the core Bait! sport, letting you sit again and reel’em in with as much as 4 gamers for both event fishing or simply some informal enjoyable.
4 gamers can fish collectively on the frozen Penguin Level fishing space, whereas as much as 12 gamers can hang around at Casters’ Cove within the third occasion of what the studio calls a ‘Tinyverse’, a form of tiny metaverse house that gives up mini-games and probabilities to hang around and chat with different gamers. You’re most likely acquainted with the studio’s Tinyverse areas from Blaston’s Ozo Lounge and Demeo’s Heroes’ Hangout.
Social actions in Bait’s Tinyverse embody RC boat races, skipping stones alongside the seaside, paddling round in inflatable floaties and extra.
We acquired a change to poke across the new Bait multiplayer mode and go to the brand new Tinyverse house while on a go to to the Stockholm workplaces of Decision Video games. It’s been endlessly since I performed Bait!, contemplating that final substantial replace was again properly earlier than even Oculus Go existed, and leaping in felt like outdated occasions.
Furthermore, having the ability to saddle up subsequent to 3 different avatars, all of them with their very own distinctive sort out earned all through the marketing campaign, was a enjoyable expertise that took a little bit of the lonely edge off the single-player sport. I can think about myself returning with a far-flung buddy who’s an absolute fishing fanatic, if solely to reconnect with a pint whereas catching a perch.
The studio’s Tinyverse addition can also be an fascinating technique, because it seems Tinyverses are making their methods into each one in every of Decision’s multiplayer titles to make them extra ‘sticky’ in improve participant retention.
In all, it looks like Bait! is getting a recent breath of recent life with the Fishin’ Buddies replace, which primarily converts one of many studio’s most senior VR titles (it was on Gear VR, in any case) into one other slick multiplayer sport that’s not solely stood the take a look at of time, however can also be fortunately free.