How much co-op is really happening so far?

[Eightball]

Just curious as to if this game is more of a solo experience with grouping for instances/bosses or are people really doing alot of open world co-op exploring?

[🎶Alleine Dragonfyre]

Not a lot.

[Daemon Knight]

Me and my friend are currently playing it together and we're done most of it together. Sometimes we go out alone and explore but we mainly co op everything. Solo play is still a thing thought with some bosses you might struggle (e.g. I did my first silo fine, until I found the secret room in it, that was frustrating alone).

I will say though it helps to look up events as the game does not always tell you. For example me and my friend tried to do this world event with a convoy truck with a jellyfish in it. It took me a while to figure out that other players were shooting me and actually damaging me since my char never see, to register the hit and i am on a PvE server lol

[VDRSK]

For the 8 hours I played I saw at most 2 people and that me doing events and such.

I Am certain a server being "overloaded" is based on players created not ones currently playing, and with that comes the issues that if you are in an overloaded server of people who just tried the game and left you are now on a dead server.

And If not it certainly feels like that I see so many unfinished bases where they are around the same sport they have got their bike and their 2 workstations and that seems to be where most people quit because those bases never seem to progress past that.

[AFC_HIGHBURY]

Not alot, played some with my mate most solo. It definitely is more fun with others though.

[Kyutaru]

Well let's see...

- We organized a Discord for our server to congregate and chat together public and open to all. It has over 100 members and is still growing. People are trading, arranging groups, and coordinating events. We run silos together, boss runs together, and engage in warband activity.

- We established a regular Prime War event schedule, repeated daily, across all three locations so that everyone can get their wins in. Ammunition for the rockets is also being farmed out by our server leader in terms of wealth who donates the rockets needed to low levels that lack the ability to produce them.

- We constructed a server community center comprised of multiple territories lumped together and possessing the best specializations available. It farms the acid, food ingredients, and refinement bonuses that allow us to stock vending machines full of cheap supplies for upcoming players.

I'd say there's a lot of coop going on.

[Barbacamanitu]

It's hard to co op when your friends can't join your server.

[Eightball]

@Kyutaru You mentioned a 'server leader' so is there some sort of server hierarchy? Or is this merely the person on the server with the most loot if there is even a way to determine that.

You basically described a clan or what I understand is a 'hive' in this game. Is that what this is or is everyone freelance? Not that a clan is a bad thing if it is active.

[Ex]

Originally posted by Eightball:

Just curious as to if this game is more of a solo experience with grouping for instances/bosses or are people really doing alot of open world co-op exploring?

I'm on 0015 WEST NA and I see random people grouping for stuff, bartering and trading constantly. The most social community I've seen in a while.

[Ex]

Originally posted by Eightball:

@Kyutaru You mentioned a 'server leader' so is there some sort of server hierarchy? Or is this merely the person on the server with the most loot if there is even a way to determine that.

You basically described a clan or what I understand is a 'hive' in this game. Is that what this is or is everyone freelance? Not that a clan is a bad thing if it is active.

"server leader in terms of wealth"
Dude literally just means 'richest player on the server'. No theres no server hierarchy.

[Eightball]

@Ex Well there is usually a hierarchy if there is a clan so that is why I asked since it was possible they were describing a clan.

But that does beg the question how do you determine who is the 'wealthiest' person on a sever? Is there a ranking or just word of mouth. Again, a minor point but I am curious if there is a way.

[James648]

Basically if you got lucky you picked a populated server then coop is an option. If you got unlucky you picked a server that said it was populated and is actually pretty dead coop is rare. Since server merge is off for the time being it'll be dead for a while.

[Drifti]

Originally posted by Kyutaru:

Well let's see...

- We organized a Discord for our server to congregate and chat together public and open to all. It has over 100 members and is still growing. People are trading, arranging groups, and coordinating events. We run silos together, boss runs together, and engage in warband activity.

- We established a regular Prime War event schedule, repeated daily, across all three locations so that everyone can get their wins in. Ammunition for the rockets is also being farmed out by our server leader in terms of wealth who donates the rockets needed to low levels that lack the ability to produce them.

- We constructed a server community center comprised of multiple territories lumped together and possessing the best specializations available. It farms the acid, food ingredients, and refinement bonuses that allow us to stock vending machines full of cheap supplies for upcoming players.

I'd say there's a lot of coop going on.

That does sound to me, like there is 0 coop from the game itself.... what also match my experiences today.

[Bio[redacted]]

About as much as you'd expect from an MMO.
In the sense that unless you actually organize a group its a solo game

[Eminem]

Originally posted by Eightball:

Just curious as to if this game is more of a solo experience with grouping for instances/bosses or are people really doing alot of open world co-op exploring?

on my server chat during off peak hours gets relatively quiet but as soon as someone starts PRIME WARS forming, the high levels wake up and chat gets lively all of a sudden with "I'll join", lol.

[Eminem]

Originally posted by Eminem:

Originally posted by Eightball:

Just curious as to if this game is more of a solo experience with grouping for instances/bosses or are people really doing alot of open world co-op exploring?

on my server chat during off peak hours gets relatively quiet but as soon as someone starts PRIME WARS forming, the high levels wake up and chat gets lively all of a sudden with "I'll join", lol.

the other responses I see which cracks me up is some guy will always comeback with, give me xx minutes to farm stuff "I can bring 100++ Bio Missiles" haha