Is co-op fun?

[Razzle]

Wanted to play this with a bud but not sure how the co-op is. Only games similar I've played is a bit of BG3 and DVOS:2, if those help for comparisons?

[Johnny 5]

of course it isn't. Their developer diaries made it sound awful, I'm not sure why they didn't spend time bugfixing instead of implementing it later

[Razzle]

Do you have any personal experience in it? That's more what I'm asking for

[Hayes]

Its perfectly fine dont listen to him.. the main issues with coop is that its the host's game.. they do all the talking and they are the important character and everyone else joining feels like a tag along.. if you dont mind that its great.. my boyfriend and i play it together and are having a good time with it but we also came prepared for the limitations

[Hanok]

OP just be aware many players mention game breaking bugs in Act 4-5.

[Ivas]

If you don't mind that only one person is the Rogue Trader, it's really fun! Me and my mate are having a blast

[Aryend]

It's ok and playable, but it feels like an afterthought rather than a fully fledged coop mode.
You basically take control of one of the companions (and guessing that later on you might be able to hire mercenaries to at least make a custom char), so you can roam, fight and loot along with your friends, but, as said, the host still does all the talking and decisions, you're just along for the ride.

[GKNoMu]

Originally posted by Aryend:

It's ok and playable, but it feels like an afterthought rather than a fully fledged coop mode.
You basically take control of one of the companions (and guessing that later on you might be able to hire mercenaries to at least make a custom char), so you can roam, fight and loot along with your friends, but, as said, the host still does all the talking and decisions, you're just along for the ride.

you can do mercs right after the prolong

[Aryend]

Originally posted by NoMu:

you can do mercs right after the prolong

Nice! thanks for the info

[happyclan]

i'm having a blast with it. some desyncs but nothing bad so far----still in act 1 tho

[Fumetsu Kage]

i've had a ton of desyncs, and after a while seemingly a memory leak causes the game to lag extremely to the point we both need to close the game and relaunch, we must be nearing the end of chapter 1 and with only 1 co op partner we've had over 50 desyncs which, we'd probably a good chunck through chapter 2 or even 3 but we have to keep puting up with load times and buggy battles.
i'd say wait for patches but this is owlcat games... they'll never fix it, it's not possible for them to ever polish a game to, hell kingmaker is still a buggy mess to this day. so is WotW. by all means, i hope i'm wrong and they do manage to fix this, but i know they won't.

[Hayes]

Originally posted by Fumetsu Kage:

i've had a ton of desyncs, and after a while seemingly a memory leak causes the game to lag extremely to the point we both need to close the game and relaunch, we must be nearing the end of chapter 1 and with only 1 co op partner we've had over 50 desyncs which, we'd probably a good chunck through chapter 2 or even 3 but we have to keep puting up with load times and buggy battles.
i'd say wait for patches but this is owlcat games... they'll never fix it, it's not possible for them to ever polish a game to, hell kingmaker is still a buggy mess to this day. so is WotW. by all means, i hope i'm wrong and they do manage to fix this, but i know they won't.

did you make a custom character for your coop partner ? and if so did you use the correct method (which is rather convoluted) as there was a rather severe desync problem discovered relating to other coop members creating their character themselves just before the game launched which is why we have to do it in a very roundabout way