Hey Movers,
With the game coming out on the 28th – YEP! That’s tomorrow! – we wanted to highlight a really… interesting feature that is pretty unique to our game.
Introducing:
DUUUUUAAAL MOOOOOOOOVERRRR MOOOODDDDE
I like the sound of that, I hear you say, but what is it? Well, DMM is an Advanced Mode that allows one person to wield TWO movers with ONE controller! We know, that’s crazy!
Like all good things, there was a need for this. Our designers, having to test levels with multiple players, couldn’t really do that alone. Enter the most complicated testing tool we ever created. The functionality to play multiple characters with a single controller was absolutely invaluable to our designers, and they loved it so much that they wanted to share it with everyone!
We also wanted to give solo players access to the two-player content, and without DMM there would have been no easy way to do that.
Now, we want to be really clear here. This mode is HARD! It’s not for everyone. We can’t stress that enough. It requires an almost impossible -to-achieve level of controller mastery and your spatial awareness game must be en pointe.
As this mode is so difficult, we’ve made sure you have to intentionally enable it in the Settings Menu, first. Once you do you’ll see the option to join as Dual Movers. Now we did say this was HARD, so we added a warning screen when you join as Dual Movers because we’re slightly terrified for you. If you’re positive you want to give it a shot… well, we aren’t responsible for the brain explosion that is likely to ensue. You have been warned…
Here’s the really cool thing. You can use a combination of Dual Movers plus individual players controlling characters 3 & 4 or if you want to get really fancy, you can even have two sets of Dual Movers, which allows two players to control four movers simultaneously. Yeah, you might need to re-read that sentence.
We did say this was HARD, right?
To help with any bruised egos, we really want to emphasise that our developers have been using this mode to test the game for a really long time and they can still struggle with it themselves. Even recording content for this Blog: FAIL!
To reiterate… it’s very, very HARD!
As for how to use this mode, you can switch which side of the controller is the primary mover and we have a handy UI dashed indicator so you always know which character is the left/primary mover, even at a glance.
With extensive experience under their belts, our developers suggest always keeping your primary mover to the left of the secondary mover, or you’ll be asking for a whole world of left/right spatial awareness confusion! If you do happen to get your wires crossed, it’s ok, we have you covered – just tap that toggle button to swap and you’ll be back to ‘normal’ in no time.
As this mode is, you know, so HARD, you can always try Dual Mover in combination with Assist Mode options to make things a little more manageable.
When all is said and done, this is a really weird and wacky mode, but maybe that difficulty is just the challenge you’ve been looking for. Maybe it’s something you really want to master. So sure, it might be HARD, but you can always try to go HARDER!!
Dual Mover Mode is something we’re proud to share with you, our super engaged players, and you’ll find it there waiting for you, so make sure you update on launch day and you’ll get these extra goodies as well:
- New Dance moves with the option to choose which dance you want to move your mover!
- A whole lot more Character Customisation options
- 4k support for PS4
- New and updated Art on heaps of levels with new particle effects included
- Random license plates for your Smooth Moves Truck
- Milliseconds added to the Game Timer for those extra competitive types among us
- Split Keyboard allowing for two players to use the one keyboard on PC
- Multi-user Achievements
- Awarding bonus challenges retroactively
We are so excited to bring this game to you on April 28th 2020. Oh my goodness, that is TOMORROW! Let us know in the comments what you think about DMM or any of the Day Zero updates and we can’t wait for you to play Moving Out!
Team SMG,
Moving Out from home (just like everybody else in isolation)