Co-op with a friend how?

[Soondead]

Me and a friend have tried joining each other's game for several days now, but with no apparent way to send an invite and the "join" page only showing the same random 4 games over and over in different order with each click on "refresh", we're pretty much out of ideas.

Anyone..?

[Gietmex]

Easiest way I found is using steam invite and join function. Have one of you load into the game. As soon as the world it's loaded. Using the steam overlay or tab to friends list and click join, if you are the one hosting, send and invite that way.

[Nitro Toxico]

Reminder, the host has to be done with the tutorial island and has left the area with the airship for the first time in order to make co-op available. If you are starting for the first tme and are trying to join a friend, it wont let you because the host has not completed the tutorial by leaving the area.

And this might be something to be aware about but, are you both on the same update?
Because there is the Beta Flight branch, the Legacy branch, and the default one.
So it might be because you are on different versions.

[Nemo]

Originally posted by Gietmex:

Easiest way I found is using steam invite and join function. Have one of you load into the game. As soon as the world it's loaded. Using the steam overlay or tab to friends list and click join, if you are the one hosting, send and invite that way.

I am having a real hard time joining even with the steam overlay and invites. My friend is hosting and has invited me, I've joined there, and then I've also joined by right clicking on his name in the friend list. Sometimes it works, often it doesn't. Really hope they work on more reliable connections, because only showing random accounts and not my actual friends' games is really a hindrance.

[Soondead]

We had almost given up getting this to work, until I happened to right-click on his name in the tab of an open chat. Lo and behold, there was an option to join his game and he could do the exact same thing at his end to join mine. A little laggy at first, probably because there was a good amount of data to transfer, but then it worked like a charm.