Can I play Local Co-op with my friend VS online players?

[Mulsta]

I want to play this my buddy at the weekend, the 2 of us on one PC, against online players if possible. Or can we only do 1v1s? Thanks.

[Captain_Guile]

Yes you can do both.
Even adding bots if you want to fill the lobby faster.

Or even 8 against each other or team of 4vs4 or 2vs2vs2vs2.

[Mulsta]

Oh fantastic, I didn't realize it was up to 8, thanks.

[Captain_Guile]

Originally posted by Mulsta:

Oh fantastic, I didn't realize it was up to 8, thanks.

But you can only play with 4 players (split-screen) on same PC if I'm not wrong (or Xbox, it's also on gamepass, but not for PC).
No problem !

[Mulsta]

Bumping because this doesn't seem as 'doable' as expected.

We played some local, but when we wanted to fight against some other people online, it just didn't seem possible? Joining an existing lobby seemed to only pull in Player 1 with no option for Player 2 to join, Quick Match was just for Player 1 it seemed, and creating our own lobby looked promising, but we waited a while in the pre-game and no-one joined, then started and played several rounds and still no-one joined.

Did we miss something? Loving the gameplay so far, just hoping to figure this out for our next session! Thanks!

[Corker]

Originally posted by Mulsta:

Bumping because this doesn't seem as 'doable' as expected.

We played some local, but when we wanted to fight against some other people online, it just didn't seem possible? Joining an existing lobby seemed to only pull in Player 1 with no option for Player 2 to join, Quick Match was just for Player 1 it seemed, and creating our own lobby looked promising, but we waited a while in the pre-game and no-one joined, then started and played several rounds and still no-one joined.

Did we miss something? Loving the gameplay so far, just hoping to figure this out for our next session! Thanks!

Ignore this post I misread your original post my bad. Yeah you'll have to just hope people join your custom if you want to play couch co op online

[Mulsta]

Ah ok that's a shame, I really hope they add this feature. We ended up taking turns playing Online which was cool, but also a bummer coming from Gang Beasts which has this kind of local+matchmaking functionality. This game is better in every other way but until they add this feature, we can't really enjoy it properly. Am I missing some reason why this isn't included?

EDIT: I know it is *possible*, but sitting in a lobby waiting for people to join isn't fun, especially when no-one even shows up and it's just time wasted. I think the cause could be this:
Local groups can play together by creating a lobby, but they can't JOIN lobbies as a group? Which only leaves solo players/online groups, but they can just play Quick Match so aren't joining lobbies?

[frontier.cookie]

Originally posted by Mulsta:

Bumping because this doesn't seem as 'doable' as expected.

We played some local, but when we wanted to fight against some other people online, it just didn't seem possible? Joining an existing lobby seemed to only pull in Player 1 with no option for Player 2 to join, Quick Match was just for Player 1 it seemed, and creating our own lobby looked promising, but we waited a while in the pre-game and no-one joined, then started and played several rounds and still no-one joined.

Did we miss something? Loving the gameplay so far, just hoping to figure this out for our next session! Thanks!

if you are joining other player's costom game it creates player one, then you need to press 'esc' and then go to the "lobby info" or something, it is where you can see all players names and what teams they are in. From there you can add another player by pressing Right Trigger on second controller (writting in english is a struggle, sorry)