"it is impossible to add a co-op mode without ruining the experience of overcoming the difficulties on your own."

[Lordawesome]

is the lamest response for "were to lazy and stupid to give the people what they want"

[solenoid]

Originally posted by Z3r0_:

Give it a year or two, somebody will mod it in.

It's been 17 years since SoC and we only just got a CoP coop mod that's sort of playable.

[[O]Pallemiitti]

I'm betting my money on modders even though I need to wait another 17 years.

[rustypup]

Aaaaaand... NO

This is STALKER, not lame-ass WoW.

You want WoW? Go prance around preening in your cartoonish gear and primping in front of your "friends" over there.

We're STALKERs. We plunder the dark places, live and die alone, cuddling a radioactive artefact to juice up and drinking mugs of I-can't-believe-it's-not-coffee at the campfire.

[Amos]

Originally posted by Otterton:

Originally posted by Dr.doom:

adding coop would prob need to remake the whole game into NOT STALKER

Nah, modders have added coop for COP. Just needs to be properly balanced for extra players.

yeah and how long did it take them?

[Charnel]

Don't play then, easy

They never promised co-op all throughout development, your issue if you want to be wilfully ignorant

[FINAL_Bₒₛₛ]

There is a coop mod for Stalker CoP. The ''experience'' did changed but still remained fun to play the whole campaign and quests with 3 players.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf-emexq614&t=1s

[Mike]

Good. I'm tired of single player games being ruined with Co-op balancing at the forefront, which inevitable ruins solo play. Stalker at its core has always been a solo experience and it should stay that way.

As others said if you want co-op wait many years for some modders to put in the work, or you can play with your friends in the future multiplayer update they will add.

[Fudzin]

Originally posted by Lordawesome:

is the lamest response for "were to lazy and stupid to give the people what they want"

Lol man, if you dont wanna play game with out co-op - you can just not play it you shoundnt be so mean and look like you 10 yo

[Hummens]

You're saying the people who made S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 are lazy and stupid?

What is wrong with you?

Pick up your toys and go home and shut your mouth.

[ImHelping]

Comedy/Serious reason: Co-op stability is actually more work than "Lulz, lmao, shoot eachother who cares if the netcode or world state is a disaster" deathmatch.

Also, people really bad at survival or shooting get insecure about the idea a friend helping them will remind them of that.

Some of us are more honest about how dumb it is to barely survive a blowout in a radioactive boat, 200 feet away from a safer cave, getting blackout drunk on magical rad curing vodka because we didn't have antirad meds yet.

I only dislike co-op at times for mirror universe reasons of "Too many games supposedly with a solo experience have everything overtuned and extra grindy balanced around more than one person. Because god forbid two assault rifles headshottting a monster kill it faster. It would not ruin stalker if it was scaled for "Did you know, working together is strong?" unless you get jealous easily.

See also; The Darksouls community, screaming and crying "I brought a friend on purpose to kill a boss with. Who could have foreseen it would make the boss easier? Ruined my experience that friends are good instead of bad. Please make bosses have 700%+ health with co-op so friends are punishments"