Multiplayer

[Thuatha]

Hi can i join another match on the middle (with random person) or i must make another fresh match from begining with my "friend" ?

[TheBird]

If they are in a mission then you have to wait until they are done, it puts you in their lobby and you can change your class/gear but that is it until they start the next mission.

I think that you can talk to them in chat when you are waiting in their lobby and they are in a mission but I am not sure.

[Thuatha]

Originally posted by TheBird:

If they are in a mission then you have to wait until they are done, it puts you in their lobby and you can change your class/gear but that is it until they start the next mission.

I think that you can talk to them in chat when you are waiting in their lobby and they are in a mission but I am not sure.

ah, so it's still like the other series. i hope they change it on the newer one. sadly it's not happening

[Vℓα∂y]

I wouldn't mind some kind of spectate in game option being added, but I highly disapprove of just join in middle of game, that would lead to some major cheesing, with players just dropping in and out with different weapons at different points in the stage. Not only that I would be incredibly mad if someone just join me on say 20+minute mission where I already slowly pulling some enemies they join, shoot something and ruin my 20minutes of hard work. If they ever do implement something like that simply keep it to easy, and normal, and leave it out of hard, hardest, and inferno. Simply no real cares how you play game on easy and normal, on hard and above yes people do care a lot on how its played.

Also I have good feeling it would promote more players into doing private games because of huge distrust of newer players&cheaters and even less public games, which I think personally is not good for a game like this. This feature I wouldn't hate it in other games but it just wouldn't work in this series, the online multipliers that scales the enemies up aren't dynamic either like it is in monster hunter world, meaning they don't just change when someone drops or enters until host restarts or backs out to lobby. Even if it was did become dynamic, you still have an issue where let's say you and one other person played in a 2 man group, your buddy leaves in middle of mission because he/she has something important to do, congrats they just made multiplier max because one player online punishes a player for playing alone.

Then you may ask oh well why don't they just make single person scale to one person and not whole group? Well unfortunately EDF tries to promote co-op aspect of game in online, one way of them doing that is making the game really hard on people playing alone so that you the player are more convinced to try and get help from another player can't just reach 70% limit easily and very quickly.

Finally unlike other EDFs, 5 added a timer on person lobby so you can get a sense of how long there playing, if its within the first minute or two you can likely get them to back out provided they aren't dense to lobby settings. If they been playing like 10m-30m, then you can usually get a good sense that there almost done, most people never spend more than 30minutes on a mission I believe. You can good sense of how long missions are especially if you played on easy,normal, or hard first, you could guess stage times a lot more easily on your additional playthroughs.

Anyone I'm done sorry I didn't mean to ♥♥♥♥♥ at you lol, just trying to bring up some points because I've felt the frustration with randoms myself plenty of times. Oh speaking about spectate thing, I feel like it be great feature so you can see what type of player your trying to join, a beginner, someone who don't know what there doing or maybe need few pointers to adjust to stage correctly, or even most importantly a cheater.