Got my 8 and 5 year old excited to play local co-op. They used some of their allowance money to purchase the game and they've been excited to play, it's too bad this bug is still around. I'm on the xbox one and using local play. I've verified that all three xbox controllers are working, so they're not a variable in this bug. I've seen this bug manifest itself in a few ways.
1. On the main logon screen, i can select 1st player's character. I depress the left joystick button to have 2nd player join. The screen changes to the character selection screen, a blue fire appears indicating (I think) that 2nd player account doesn't have already made character (which is false). It displays the option that I can press 'A' to create a new character, however, pressing 'A' does nothing. In fact, at this point, no buttons bring up any interaction with this screen. The game has not frozen because the fire animation continues. The controller is still connected, because I can press the xbox button to bring up the menu. However, I can't even back out of this screen. I have to sign out 2nd player to return to the main logon screen in order to interact with the Minecraft interface again.
2. On the main logon screen, i can select 1st player's character. I depress the left joystick button to have 2nd player join. The screen changes to the character selection screen, the 2nd player character appears. Minecraft Dungeons displays that I an select this character by pressing 'A', however pressing 'A' does nothing. In fact, at this point, no buttons bring up any interaction with this screen. The game has not frozen because the fire animation continues. The controller is still connected, because I can press the xbox button to bring up the menu. However, I can't even back out of this screen. I have to sign out 2nd player to return to the main logon screen in order to interact with the Minecraft interface again.
3. On the main logon screen, i select the 1st player's character and start a local game. The game loads me to the main camp area. I select the options button to show the friends screen and then I depress the left joystick button to have 2nd player join. I have seen three different things happen at this point:
3a. The game shows 2nd player's character, but now no buttons will work to allow me to select the character and I have to sign out in order to return Minecraft Dungeons to 1st player's main camp.
3b. The game shows a blue fire indicating that no character has been created for 2nd player and to select 'A' to create a character. No buttons will work to allow me to select the character and I have to sign out in order to return Minecraft Dungeons to 1st player's main camp.
3c. The game freezes, the audio goes to a monotone sound (probably the last tone that was playing when the game froze). The game hangs for 5-10 seconds and then i am returned to the xbox home screen menu where I can load up Minecraft Dungeons again no problem.
I have successfully gotten all three players to login after multiple attempts to close the game down and trying to re-login in players. It appears that signing out a player and signing them back in multiple times does nothing. The only things that has seemed to work is when I load the normal Minecraft game (not Dungeons) and I have all three players login into normal Minecraft. I then press the Xbox button to get to Xbox Home. I select Minecraft Dungeons and it loads up. On the main logon screen i have been able to load all three players and then start my local game. However, this process usually takes 30 minutes of me trying to load in and out of Minecraft and Minecraft Dungeons and usually when I tell my two boys that if this doesn't work, we'll have to play something different, it works.
Please fix this bug, my boys love your game and want to play it! Just please fix it!
Obviously when Mojang has to mark 25 issues as duplicates to this problem, there are plenty of people seeing the same problem. This issue was created 1 month ago. Until that point I'm going to ask for a refund and follow the status on this ticket, if and when this ticket is resolved, my boys and i will repurchase the game. If Notch was in charge, this problem never would have been allowed to remain a problem for this long...
Got my 8 and 5 year old excited to play local co-op. They used some of their allowance money to purchase the game and they've been excited to play, it's too bad this bug is still around. I'm on the xbox one and using local play. I've verified that all three xbox controllers are working, so they're not a variable in this bug. I've seen this bug manifest itself in a few ways.
1. On the main logon screen, i can select 1st player's character. I depress the left joystick button to have 2nd player join. The screen changes to the character selection screen, a blue fire appears indicating (I think) that 2nd player account doesn't have already made character (which is false). It displays the option that I can press 'A' to create a new character, however, pressing 'A' does nothing. In fact, at this point, no buttons bring up any interaction with this screen. The game has not frozen because the fire animation continues. The controller is still connected, because I can press the xbox button to bring up the menu. However, I can't even back out of this screen. I have to sign out 2nd player to return to the main logon screen in order to interact with the Minecraft interface again.
2. On the main logon screen, i can select 1st player's character. I depress the left joystick button to have 2nd player join. The screen changes to the character selection screen, the 2nd player character appears. Minecraft Dungeons displays that I an select this character by pressing 'A', however pressing 'A' does nothing. In fact, at this point, no buttons bring up any interaction with this screen. The game has not frozen because the fire animation continues. The controller is still connected, because I can press the xbox button to bring up the menu. However, I can't even back out of this screen. I have to sign out 2nd player to return to the main logon screen in order to interact with the Minecraft interface again.
3. On the main logon screen, i select the 1st player's character and start a local game. The game loads me to the main camp area. I select the options button to show the friends screen and then I depress the left joystick button to have 2nd player join. I have seen three different things happen at this point:
3a. The game shows 2nd player's character, but now no buttons will work to allow me to select the character and I have to sign out in order to return Minecraft Dungeons to 1st player's main camp.
3b. The game shows a blue fire indicating that no character has been created for 2nd player and to select 'A' to create a character. No buttons will work to allow me to select the character and I have to sign out in order to return Minecraft Dungeons to 1st player's main camp.
3c. The game freezes, the audio goes to a monotone sound (probably the last tone that was playing when the game froze). The game hangs for 5-10 seconds and then i am returned to the xbox home screen menu where I can load up Minecraft Dungeons again no problem.
I have successfully gotten all three players to login after multiple attempts to close the game down and trying to re-login in players. It appears that signing out a player and signing them back in multiple times does nothing. The only things that has seemed to work is when I load the normal Minecraft game (not Dungeons) and I have all three players login into normal Minecraft. I then press the Xbox button to get to Xbox Home. I select Minecraft Dungeons and it loads up. On the main logon screen i have been able to load all three players and then start my local game. However, this process usually takes 30 minutes of me trying to load in and out of Minecraft and Minecraft Dungeons and usually when I tell my two boys that if this doesn't work, we'll have to play something different, it works.
Please fix this bug, my boys love your game and want to play it! Just please fix it!
Obviously when Mojang has to mark 25 issues as duplicates to this problem, there are plenty of people seeing the same problem. This issue was created 1 month ago. Until that point I'm going to ask for a refund and follow the status on this ticket, if and when this ticket is resolved, my boys and i will repurchase the game. If Notch was in charge, this problem never would have been allowed to remain a problem for this long...