is a half ass co op really that much to ask for?

[Mai Dixie Normous]

like okay sure make it so people can invade us but my ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ god its so much work getting your friends in your game every time you want to do something, How is this a thing what a ♥♥♥♥ game design it is,
Lets make a cool ass open world with co op. But basically co op thats 5 mins at a time .... like ????????

[Hans Showdown]

well it works for me every time, you sure that you all use the mp password properly?
not having any problems with playing with my friends...

either your connection is ♥♥♥♥♥♥ or someone is not having his pw set up properly.

summoning randoms is a pain in the ass, yes. but the password system is working just fine.

[ɸ It That Dwells ɸ]

Originally posted by Hans Showdown:

well it works for me every time, you sure that you all use the mp password properly?
not having any problems with playing with my friends...

either your connection is ♥♥♥♥♥♥ or someone is not having his pw set up properly.

They don't mean the connectivity issues that sometimes occur - I believe it's more of the game's inconvenient treatment of co-op by design, which albeit has an ideal purpose it's still tedious to work through.

[ZTL-Altima]

Coop is not made for full playthroughts.

Adapt.

Game is like this since Demons and will not change, since this model is actually the superior one. You guys just are used to bad games, that's it.

[blood_guts]

Originally posted by Parsify:

Coop is not made for full playthroughts.

Adapt.

Game is like this since Demons and will not change, since this model is actually the superior one. You guys just are used to bad games, that's it.

hahahah

I forgot what I was going to say. I just read this and got distracted. Every thread always has some edge lord balancing his self worth on his skill at dark souls.

Have a genuine criticism about the coop? ADAPT U CASUL hahahah
have friends? ADAPT

[Hans Showdown]

Originally posted by Parsify:

Coop is not made for full playthroughts.

Adapt.

Game is like this since Demons and will not change, since this model is actually the superior one. You guys just are used to bad games, that's it.

totally fine with that, i'm happy that we got open world coop, even after defeating the main bosses. having some fun with friends roaming one chunk of the map :D

[Hans Showdown]

Originally posted by blood_guts:

Originally posted by Parsify:

Coop is not made for full playthroughts.

Adapt.

Game is like this since Demons and will not change, since this model is actually the superior one. You guys just are used to bad games, that's it.

hahahah

I forgot what I was going to say. I just read this and got distracted. Every thread always has some edge lord balancing his self worth on his skill at dark souls.

Have a genuine criticism about the coop? ADAPT U CASUL hahahah
have friends? ADAPT

well, it's a given dark souls mechanic...if you dont like it...well ;)

no seriously, you even can craft the coop items now...stop complaining. :D

[James Bondage]

It's not a co-op game, Fromsoft has never made co-op games. It's a single-player RPG with minor multiplayer elements. You could have told that with a very brief examination of the games they've made in the past and spent your money on a game that lets you have a 2-4 person circlejerk 24/7 instead.

[Gyson]

Originally posted by Imperial Guardsman:

It's not a co-op game, Fromsoft has never made co-op games. It's a single-player RPG with minor multiplayer elements. You could have told that with a very brief examination of the games they've made in the past and spent your money on a game that lets you have a 2-4 person circlejerk 24/7 instead.

Or.. they could just have read what the Elden Ring developers had to say about it. For example, here are some of their Elden Ring quotes below.

"Finally, I would like to talk about online play. I briefly mentioned this earlier, but the title does support online multiplayer gameplay. Multiplayer is available, of course, in both the open field portion of the game, and in dungeons. We have cooperative play, in which you work together to explore areas and defeat bosses, and adversarial play, involving players from other worlds either invading your world or coming to your world to fight. These two different types of multiplayer gameplay are supported."

"In addition to multiplayer, where you can directly connect with other players and travel together.."

"Elden Ring features vast fantastical landscapes and shadowy, complex dungeons that are connected seamlessly. Traverse the breathtaking world on foot or on horseback, alone or online with other players, and fully immerse yourself in the grassy plains, suffocating swamps, spiraling mountains, foreboding castles and other sites of grandeur on a scale never seen before in a FromSoftware title."

Er.. wait.. nevermind, that was horrible advice. Those are totally misleading. Well, heck.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

Dude, I swear it's gonna sound bad but Japanese dev's just don't know how Coop is supposed to work.

Monster hunter had the same problem.

[Tao314zdin]

Coop in this game and the series in general was always meant for random-summons, they are actively promoting it with the system.

Organised coop is there, but it is not the focus.

[Dan_The_Noob]

the co-op in this game is meant to be the equivalent of a car stopping to give you a ride to get gas when you break down.

[Dan_The_Noob]

Originally posted by Grumpy Old Guy:

Monster hunter had the same problem.

????? monster hunter had persistent co-op lobbies and 2 clicks from joining each others' mission.

[TyresTyco]

"fully immerse yourself in the grassy plains, suffocating swamps, spiraling mountains, foreboding castles and other sites of grandeur on a scale never seen before in a FromSoftware title"

I had to laugh hard at that. Nothing is more immersive than seeing "disconnected from the host" or vanishing partners after a boss. THis coop turns the game from an open world .. into a .. yeah just one souls lvl just as usual.. nothing changed except the huge map.

"You can immerse yourself fully into only one small section of the game, waste countless of hours summoning people at a position nobody is now." We crafted a very big map full with dungeons with bosses to kill, dont worry you can summon your partner but only for like 1 minute since the dungeon was just a hallway with a boss."

[Dank Sidious]

Originally posted by Gyson:

Originally posted by Imperial Guardsman:

It's not a co-op game, Fromsoft has never made co-op games. It's a single-player RPG with minor multiplayer elements. You could have told that with a very brief examination of the games they've made in the past and spent your money on a game that lets you have a 2-4 person circlejerk 24/7 instead.

Or.. they could just have read what the Elden Ring developers had to say about it. For example, here are some of their Elden Ring quotes below.

"Finally, I would like to talk about online play. I briefly mentioned this earlier, but the title does support online multiplayer gameplay. Multiplayer is available, of course, in both the open field portion of the game, and in dungeons. We have cooperative play, in which you work together to explore areas and defeat bosses, and adversarial play, involving players from other worlds either invading your world or coming to your world to fight. These two different types of multiplayer gameplay are supported."

"In addition to multiplayer, where you can directly connect with other players and travel together.."

"Elden Ring features vast fantastical landscapes and shadowy, complex dungeons that are connected seamlessly. Traverse the breathtaking world on foot or on horseback, alone or online with other players, and fully immerse yourself in the grassy plains, suffocating swamps, spiraling mountains, foreboding castles and other sites of grandeur on a scale never seen before in a FromSoftware title."

Er.. wait.. nevermind, that was horrible advice. Those are totally misleading. Well, heck.

No they aren't. Nothing he said is incorrect. Taking a moment to find out what kind of games souls games were before would have informed people on the specific implementation. The dev is giving an accurate description of how Co-op functions.

[rkjesseryu]

Originally posted by TyresTyco:

"fully immerse yourself in the grassy plains, suffocating swamps, spiraling mountains, foreboding castles and other sites of grandeur on a scale never seen before in a FromSoftware title"

I had to laugh hard at that. Nothing is more immersive than seeing "disconnected from the host" or vanishing partners after a boss. THis coop turns the game from an open world .. into a .. yeah just one souls lvl just as usual.. nothing changed except the huge map.

"You can immerse yourself fully into only one small section of the game, waste countless of hours summoning people at a position nobody is now." We crafted a very big map full with dungeons with bosses to kill, dont worry you can summon your partner but only for like 1 minute since the dungeon was just a hallway with a boss."

This is kinda how i felt. Like I thought I would get to ride a fkn horse and horseback boss battle with some fkn phantom bro like a boss.

WHY would you summon anyone in a field other than to fight the tree bosses? No one wants to run across the small but long sections of ground on foot. DAFUQ!

im still enjoying the game since it's gotten WAY past the 2 hour mark I can't refund it. so.
Gotta. make. progress. DS3 was more fun. ngl. Some the bosses are cool, but it's actually a level, summon, or die kinda deal with some.
Until I look up video proof of some of these bosses being solo'd under certain levels. I won't believe it possible.