Nintendo has rolled out the ability to play with friends online in Super Mario Maker 2. The game launched with online co-op and competitive modes, but you could only play with random people via matchmaking. If you wanted to play with friends, it would have to be via local play. According to Nintendo World Report, the company chose not to include online play with friends as one of the game’s original features to prevent people from teaming up to dominate the global leaderboards.
It has now changed its tune and promised to add the feature, and that’s what update Version 1.1.0 is bringing to the game. You can now search your Switch friends list for someone to play with in either co-op or versus mode for both global and nearby play. You can also select from the courses uploaded to Course World or saved to Coursebot for your game.
There are also new “Nearby Play” and “LAN Play” options, and the ability to play courses from your locally saved list in Coursebot.
Other tweaks include the ability to play with your Joy-Con held horizontally in all game modes.
