Co op except you cant make more than 1 custom character

[Mink]

Bro WHAT where they thinking. At that point just dont add co op..

[Legume Legend]

I agree, it's annoying, however you can create a custom mercenary later in the game

[phreek]

Originally posted by TickTock|Mink:

Bro WHAT where they thinking. At that point just dont add co op..

I agree, my friends and I didn't realize this was going to be a limitation when we bought it to play together. A little disappointing.

[Nobelissimos]

Im guessing co-op just lets you manage who controls who in the party and makes few other changes? Not surprising, the game wasn't made from the ground up with the idea of co-op.
Still makes no sense not to have a second custom character.

They will probably add it in if people complain enough, otherwise im sure a mod will fix this. Tho im now kind of intrigued about playing an existing character instead of a custom one, should have been an option either way.

[Rogal Dorn]

Isn't there a mercenary system if you talk to the quartermaster guy (fat bridge officer, I forget his name)

[Alpharius]

Just wait for the mods my dude, I already have a few in mind if the code allows.

[CPT.HODOR]

The developers were clear that this was the case

[[Countess]Vol†z]

With the popularity of BG3, this mode was a last minute addition. It's a shame how limited it is, but again this was supposed to be a single player experience to begin with. Maybe it'll get better incorporation in the future but I won't hold my breath.
My BF and I wanted to play it together, but in order to get to the mercenary hire you have to get through the tutorial opening which can take up to a hour to get through. He quickly refunded the game. I love 40K, so I plan to keep playing. >.>

[Nobelissimos]

Originally posted by CountessVol†z:

With the popularity of BG3, this mode was a last minute addition. It's a shame how limited it is, but again this was supposed to be a single player experience to begin with. Maybe it'll get better incorporation in the future but I won't hold my breath.
My BF and I wanted to play it together, but in order to get to the mercenary hire you have to get through the tutorial opening which can take up to a hour to get through. He quickly refunded the game. I love 40K, so I plan to keep playing. >.>

Terrible BF and a fake gamer.

A real homie would stick it out for 1 hour.

Yeah it's a shame but co-op is better than no co-op. It's actually funny ive seen a number of games, CRPGs or otherwise where people complain it should have co-op of some kind even if it's the most basic and rudimentary functionality, so long as it works. And then we get exactly that and people complain.

Id be very surprised if there isn't an update to fix this.

[Nobelissimos]

Originally posted by CPT.HODOR:

The developers were clear that this was the case

I went to go read the post and yeah they explained everything. I don't mind it personally, and 100% there will be a mod that lets you make a second custom character immediately anyways. For the time being people can just stick with a story companion or wait for the prolouge to finish to make a mercenary/custom character.

[Oni1]

Highlander rules. THERE CAN ONLY HE 1 LORD CAPTAIN.

[Lutumaros]

You can make custom mercenary, but only one person will be lord commander which is kind of easy to understand why lol

[Howell-Barrex Soldier Ja'kala]

Originally posted by Nobelissimos:

Originally posted by CPT.HODOR:

The developers were clear that this was the case

I went to go read the post and yeah they explained everything. I don't mind it personally, and 100% there will be a mod that lets you make a second custom character immediately anyways. For the time being people can just stick with a story companion or wait for the prolouge to finish to make a mercenary/custom character.

The post literally says it is because of a bug and once it is fixed you will be able to create your character in the multiplayer screen.

[Drake]

Also the idea behind that is that in pnp, almost all careers are kind of unique. One player plays the rogue trader, one takes the navigator, one for the senechal, the astropath etc. (some games even use 2 chars with 2 different careers, one crew for the ship, one for the field, to fill all roles). And since most of these careers are filled by companion only chars (you can't roll a navigator, an astropath, an explorator nor xenos), the only option is to control the companions.

I still think that for it to be an actual co op game, they should have made it more icewind dale based, where you build the entire retinue and play with it as a unit (and each player picks a career).

You can't just have heavy interactions between a player an npc companion and a full coop campaign. At one point it's going to be difficult to hold the writing together.
This is why I still think icewind dale 1 and 2 are the only crpgs that have a coop friendly campaign, every other crpgs are not worth it in coop, it's just a mess.