Local Co-op Menu opening for both players

[Guachemim]

I've started playing the game with local co-op using a keyboard and a controller, but every time one player opens a menu (crafting, storage, inventory, etc) it also opens it for the other players, interrupting the gameplay every time one players want to open a menu.

Is there any way to keep that from happening? As in keep playing when the other players navigates a menu?

Thanks!

[Caseycc]

I just did a short co-op game of this, it's supper annoying and breaks the flow of game for both players when one opens a menu as the other is pressing a button and suddenly something random is queued to craft. And even when that isn't happening, it's a force interrupt on whatever the other player is doing when the menu opens. Far prefer it to just open for one player and not pause time.

[Sublime]

I really want it fixed soon

[Endora]

Same here and it's quite anoying. On top on that, if one opens the menu while the other is cleaning the bar table, this one froze and need to repeat the same command again to regain control.

[Tom Shark [GER]]

Just started coop here with my wife, super annoying issue with the menu. Any updates yet with this? Besides that, I love the game!

[sarapaski]

it's game breaking and I wish I could find any acknowledgement of the issue from devs.

[Mikebrowski]

+9000 yes please it is legitiamtely frustrating

[Philtre]

There is a point to this: opening a menu stops time, so that you can take your time and look through options and check your inventory etc. without having to worry about time passing: tables getting dirty, customers getting angry, the hour changing to the time you need to turn on the fireplace or go to bed, or whatever.

Obviously this is less of a problem in multiplayer, because the second person can deal with problems that crop up while the other is designing the perfect recipe for fruit ale or pondering which recipes to unlock next or whatever. Changing the mechanic so that it pauses the game when menus are open when in singleplayer but not in multiplayer would be nice, although it would require some extra code.

[shoreless]

I agree that it's annoying because you have to sit there while your partner does the thing, but I have to think that communication can help mitigate the irritation. Part of the fun is chilling with your friend, even if that means being a little bored while they decide what kind of pie to make.

But, yes, squeezing it into one half of the screen to free up the other would be nice. It just isn't game breaking. At least not for me.

[Caseycc]

It's not a question of waiting or boredom. It's a question of interrupting if not completely messing up what the players are doing. Like suddenly the wrong item is queued and you have to work to cancel it and queue the right item. I truly wonder if people saying this multiplayer issue isn't an issue have even done the multiplayer cause everyone complaining about this are coming in here with "just tried to do multiplayer and this is killing us" lol.

[[NewNet]*Akiyama]

+1 Please fix it. No pause is needed in multiplayer. Remove the pause and open a menu only on the half screen it´s belonging to. Shared inventory is not a problem in my opinion.

[Eetek]

+1
local co-op it s unplayble becouse of this.

[AimlessEagle]

Won't buy if local co-op issues aren't fixed

[Chris]

Please fix it :D

[MrBloodworth]

We just need real Co-op, not just remote play.

[[NewNet]*Akiyama]

There are free and good remote play tools with a perfect ping time. Don´t know why remote play should be a problem. The menu/pause problem is much more important.