How does coop work ?

[Arthan]

I took notice of this game of few months ago, but by then the coop was not working yet. Could anyone tell me what it looks like ?

Do you split the control of 1 team between 2 players (like in Dawn of War 2 for example) or do you control 1 team each ?

[wiredhands]

you control 1 team each.
And the coop is so far only on specifically coop designed levels

[Arthan]

Oh I see, I thought you could play through the whole game in coop. Still, is the coop good enough to buy two copies of the game to play with a friend ? I'm probably going to buy it anyway just for me, but I wanna be sure that the coop will give a few hours of fun if we decide to play together.

[wiredhands]

well they are working on more coop stuff, this they have confirmed. the steamstore also says : specially designed online Co-Op dungeons and bosses...aka nothing about campaign..

Anyway they are trying to make the campaign work as coop, but atm the levels in the campaign are not exactly coop friendly (imo the are already crowded with just 1 team there).
So they have to either change the amount of characters pr team allowed in a coop campaign or redesign the dungeons to make it more coop friendly. There is also some issues to consider with quests and such.
Not sure what will happen there..but sure would be awesome to have the full campaign available in coop mode.

I would also recommend trying the demo before buying, since some people have problems getting this game to run, and the demo should show if you can run it without problems or not

Do notice the following, Krater requires DirectX 10, a DirectX 10 compatible video card, and Windows Vista or Windows 7. There is no support for Windows XP or DirectX 9.