Multiplayer/Co-Op

[TrashGamer]

Trying to understand how the MP works before I look into buying for me and the wife. I'm not really into playing a single player RPG and want to make sure I understand how the co-op experience works and haven't really been able to find a good description. Appreciate any assist!

[Paroe]

Co-oP works just like single player, but the other player can also initiate dialogues and such.

Loot is shared, so no individual rolls.

[Xuande]

If planning on playing with a single device, there is split-screen support, though in this case both players must use a controller and there are some actions that are difficult or impossible with a controller (manual swapping from ranged to melee and vice versa if not making an attack as one example, whereas KB+M has a dedicated button for this).

If playing on multiple devices, there is a way to play involving buying a single copy, but its not as simple as using Steam Offline Mode. It is doable, though ultimately I decided not to because BG3 would be quite taxing on our secondary PC.

You're expected to control four characters, but can split up control of them however you like - make sure to do this at the start of each session since the game itself doesn't save this setting.

The player who triggers an event, conversation, etc is the player who usually gets to make the choices and skill checks related to it, so if one player is playing at a faster pace than the other, they might end up hogging these opportunities.

If looking for a DnD 5e based game that sticks to core rules more with a heavier focus on combat and lighter focus on everything else, consider Solasta over BG3. I personally haven't been able to enjoy BG3 much because of how liberal the devs were in homebrewing various DnD mechanics leading to a ton of overpowered ways to play, that didn't feel like actual DnD combat to me. Solasta tries to cover a lot less with its limited budget and limited permissions on the DnD license, but does a better job with what they did have access to, in my opinion.

[TrashGamer]

Cool so if we're playing co-op make sure we're doing the conversations etc. together, that's not really a big deal to me. The wife and I would have our own PC copies. Good to note on splitting characters. Since we would only be playing together, one of us playing at a faster pace is a non-issue.

Thank you for this feedback! very helpful!

[topetepeterson]

It's amazing. This game and DOS2 have been so much fun to play through together with my wife. Larian can have more of our money any time.

[guard65]

My wife and I play on our local LAN with two computers and everything works great. We do not use the steam loader but start the game from the executable since the steam wrapper can and has caused issues. We also run four custom character even thought one or two are origin character.