Co-op Requirements Mod

[=7Cav=SPC.McDonald.N]

Is there a mod to get rid of the requirement for a player to have completed a level before they can join a coopnfor that level? My buddy and I are trying to co-op the game but can't unless one of us beats each level before the other we can't play together.

[LocalxCrimez]

Expeditions

[Angel]

you can play almost the entire game together if you group up in an expedition (another option at the torii gate)

[Zergem]

Use expedition mode and both players gain story progress together.

[Gearhart]

yup expedition mode from the torii gate you can have up to 2 friends join you but as you add more people it gets more difficult.

[=7Cav=SPC.McDonald.N]

Originally posted by Angel:

you can play almost the entire game together if you group up in an expedition (another option at the torii gate)

Awesome thank you for the information!

[=7Cav=SPC.McDonald.N]

Awesome thank you for the information!

[gamester512]

Yep. This is what I did in my main playthrough on my PS5 version of the game, I played every mission as an Expedition via the Torii Gate. Though there are a handful of missions that do not allow you to do them as an Expedition, which are usually missions that just involve you fighting an NPC in a one-on-one duel (this is generally the easiest way to farm some of those NPCs for specific Smithing Texts, Secret Skills, and other drops, like how Saito Yoshitatsu can potentially drop 3 skills [Dragon Claw, Dragon Fang, & Dragon Horn, which are all special Grapple moves for the Sword, Dual Swords, & Odachi] and also drops the Smithing texts for their sword [the Udoto] & the Genryu Armor set).

Expeditions are also more forgiving than playing through a level by yourself as you have the "Assist Gauge" which allows you to die multiple times collectively (and your teammates can manually revive you if you die to try and salvage some of the assist gauge, so if you die it's usually a good idea to not self-revive if one of your allies is nearby as they will likely try to revive you themselves ASAP) before you "fail" a mission and have to pick up your progress from the last Shrine the host used. But Expeditions also compensate for the extra players by adding in new enemy spawns and padding their health so that you need to deal more damage before a given enemy goes down....particularly when a boss is involved.

If you are only playing with one friend though, you have the option to make one of the player slots private so that only your friend can join in that slot, and then you could leave the other slot open so a random person can also join in, or you can lock it so that it will only be you and your friend.