Joining co-op question.

[Medina_Rico]

Is it area specific? Or can you be summoned from any area.

[MasterZalm]

Any area.

Edit- Even if you have not beat the first major boss(Pieta) and you go join random coop, you can end up with a host in the last zone of the game. Your stats will scale up(somewhat) but you'll be completely lost, fighting enemies way out of your league, and probably dying due to low end gearing.

[Medina_Rico]

Gotcha. Thanks.

Kind of strange it doesn't group by levels or weapon levels.

[MasterZalm]

Originally posted by Medina_Rico:

Gotcha. Thanks.

Kind of strange it doesn't group by levels or weapon levels.

I think they wanted to step away form the standard practice of level restricted, since there are those out there who have really higher level builds who basically dont get coop anymore. Or the people doing low level builds that could use a hand.

I wouldnt mind if they didnt also put all these annoing restrictions on coop as well, but at least anyone, anywhere can join anytime, makes for a good way to simply join people and help them do stuff.

[Medina_Rico]

^You'd think so. But I have a hard time linking up with randoms wether I'm summoning or trying to be summoned.

[Biz-Lock]

I've definitely noticed that trying to "Accompany Lampbearer" can take upwards of a couple minutes to work, while "Slaughter Lampbearer" is 5-10 seconds.

[mayhem523]

Originally posted by Medina_Rico:

Gotcha. Thanks.

Kind of strange it doesn't group by levels or weapon levels.

What's really strange is getting summoned for the last boss when you're halfway through the game... today I even got summoned for the optional last boss you get when you do a more complicated ending. Not a fan of spoilers, but it does come in handy. On my first playthrough whenever I got stuck, I'd just coop for a while and end up learning where I need to go and what I need to do.

[Medina_Rico]

^True.

I don't know if it was luck, but. I was waiting forever for a summon, I quit to the main menu and reloaded my game and got a summon within a couple of minutes.

[MasterZalm]

Originally posted by Medina_Rico:

^True.

I don't know if it was luck, but. I was waiting forever for a summon, I quit to the main menu and reloaded my game and got a summon within a couple of minutes.

Honestly, its kinda random for me. I've waited half an hour or more at times, just farming enemies, and when it pops, I sit in a load screen for like 20s before I get disconnected.

I turn around, go to vestige, hit accompany, and get the load screen less than 10s later, and I actually join a (maybe laggy, maybe not) game and get to killing.

[Bulls187]

It’s strange that you can join way above your location and level. I get that you can join beneath you, but above is unreasonable. I got summoned and ended up way above my head and died. The person who summoned me quickly ran to the vestige to kick me 🤣