How will multiplayer work?

[Achilles]

I hope everyone will be able to customise and make their own mechs and not like the last game :)

[Lafettie]

You mean Coop...... it will be the same like last game obviously.

[Tezcatli]

They should really look at the success of Helldivers. Coop is worth having. Doesn't have to be on that level. But some of the more basic quality of life stuff for coop would be nice.

[BronzeBomber]

Originally posted by Lafettie:

You mean Coop...... it will be the same like last game obviously.

Why is that obvious? There are improvements they could make. Joiner could get a portion of payout. Joiner could bring in theit own mech, provided it fits within tonnage limit.

[Mina Murray's Typewriter]

From the store page:
Play with up to 4 other players as you protect and lead your Star through complex missions and thrilling combat

So, at minimum, I think it's fair to say the obvious baseline implementation would be the way MW5: Mercs handled things, except you're running in a 5-person Star instead of a 4-person Lance. Hopefully there's a little more added to the mix, but unless it's explicitly mentioned in preview coverage and not on the store page, that's all we have to go on.

[Mochan]

Originally posted by Tezcatli:

They should really look at the success of Helldivers. Coop is worth having. Doesn't have to be on that level. But some of the more basic quality of life stuff for coop would be nice.

Co-op has always been great, it has never not been, and Helldivers 2 was not the start of it, Helldivers 1 also did it really well, and so have hundreds of games before Helldivers was even a thing.

It's just that MW5's coop was trash.

As long as Co-Op for Pirannha Bytes means playing someone else's savegame instead of bringing your own mech, I will not touch it.