Reports 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's going viral throughout social media.
While in a single day reports popped up that Stellar Blade developer Shift Up had constructed a defunct multiplayer mode immediately into the game, 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 up to everyone posting clips that I shared in a Discord completely out of context, I avoided tweeting these for a reason," PhantomSomnus wrote on X/Twitter. PhantomSomnus then defined that "split-screen mode is built into Unreal Engine, [Stellar Blade developer] Shift Up did not create it."
That's how PhantomSomnus managed to load a second Eve into their game. 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 help. "The reason why I set up split-screen was to see if I could get any of it to work, but as you can see I failed," PhantomSomnus defined in a put up 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 signs of multiplayer in the game," PhantomSomnus stated, "but they're online only." A previous post of theirs includes a screenshot depicting what they discovered when digging round the demo's backend. The "old scrapped/unused multiplayer PVP mode," as Somnus calls it, no longer works, but they did discover "some menus left over."
Does this imply be any form of multiplayer replace or mod in the future for Stellar Blade? "Very unlikely," PhantomSomnus stated.
The PC model of Stellar Blade launches via 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 voiceover, ultrawide show help, increased decision surroundings textures, and DualSense help for haptic suggestions and set off results. It was originally region locked in 100+ countries, but is now obtainable to pre-order on PC in "over 250 regions."
IGN's Stellar Blade review returned a 7/10. We stated: "Stellar Blade is great in all of the most important ways for an action game, but dull characters, a lackluster story, and several frustrating elements of its RPG mechanics prevent it from soaring along with the best of the genre."
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