No Campaign CO-OP

[Human Bean Juice]

Just a heads up for anyone expecting it. I bought this for myself and a copy for a friend expecting to play thru the campaign together. To my disappointment there was no co-op for the campaign, only a horde mode-type game mode and versus deathmatch.

Still, I'm having a lot of fun playing single player and would recommend the game to action fans and fans of cheesy story a la Vanquish.

[Baron O' Beefdip]

It never advertised Campaign Co-Op, now did it? It has Co-Op, but it's a horde mode. It's not confusing at all, since the claim of Co-Op being in the game is valid.

[Human Bean Juice]

Horde mode should fall under multiplayer, not co-op imo. No reason to have both tags on the page.

[wd40]

agreed horde mode should be labeled multiplayer.

[Madfish]

Steam doesn't care for quality at all, only sales. We have this issue with many games and they rarely fix it. Makes you wonder if they even check the games or simply put them on the store.

Horde mode is NOT co-op. If co-op is defined by playing together than all multiplayer games need to have the tag. If it's just playing against the AI then all games with skirmish modes would have this.

Either they need to add a campaign co-op or simply not award the co-op tag to games with just skirmish and horde modes at all.

Thanks for the warnign OP - was almost about to buy it.

[Vortis]

Thank you for this post. I was considering buying this game for the co-op mode but after reading your post it makes it clear that I would have wasted money on this game that didn't have true co-op. It is certainly something they should fix on the page because co-op is different from competitive or arena-based multiplayer modes.

[Human Bean Juice]

Just to be clear, the game is still worth playing even with no co-op. I only made this post to warn anyone planning on buying a copy for a friend to play co-op the way I did and to maybe get Valve to fix the store page. The single player campaign is still very good in my opinion and worth the money.

[Pretendo64]

A hoarde mode is not co-op, that's a multiplayer minigame. co-op is campaign.

Valve has gotten very shady lately, though, so they're not going to change the store page if it means losing a couple bucks.

[Muay Tiger]

Thanks for the heads up, was just about to make a purchase...A shame.

[Lohner]

Doesn't horde mode imply explicitly co-operative multiplayer? Still, it is a shame there is no co-operative campaign.

[Rafcor]

I like to use the Co-Optimus quote about what is a co-op game:

Definition

A co-op game is a game where two or more players work together to accomplish a goal against AI opponents. Ideally the game will feature a strong story in which both players take part of. Co-Op can be online over the internet, offline on the same console, or via a LAN or Wireless Network. We do not consider team based games as co-op where players face off against another team of human players.

That means, a horde game is a co-op game since it's humans vs AI, and the game's description no where said campaing co-op, so you bought a game without knowledge of it.
And if you say "but the website didn't say it", take the TF2 description for example, it does not say anything about co-op, but there are multiple ways to play co-op, be it MvM or just a humans + AI vs AI.

Next time, I suggest that you search over the internet websites about it, Co-Optimus is a good choice, or just Google it. You are in the information era, so just for information if you can before taking any action at all.

[76561198030043640]

Another turd shooter.

[mwaha]

thanks OP I almost got this for the co op

[Draizix]

Thanks for the warning. Always looked at this game for the sole purpose of true co-op. Hate when Steam has that tag on games that clearly only have survival/horde/insertnotfunmodehere and says its co-op when it truly is not.

[Grizzard]

Originally posted by Sablicious:

Another turd shooter.

I disagree, i felt almost like i was playing Mass Effect, but harder

[Cymorg]

Tags are user applied. Valve isn't at fault here, apparently enough people who played the game count it as co-op for it to be listed as a tag.