Horrible Coop

[Raffi]

30 minutes of watching the play and do the tutorial without only ability to "ping".
Followed by 1 more playable character being given. GJ guys very good work...

[Toaster Maximus]

Did you have a friend you where trying to play with or just going random?

Don't coop myself so curious, think most play with themselves or a buddy.

[Raffi]

With 2 other friends and we just watched our buddy play for 30 minutes. He was also skipping through every dialogue option and cutscene so the reality for others is that it’s probably much much longer.

For singleplayer context the part of the game where you can only control 1 character, only 1 person is playing while everyone else watches.

On top of that only the host creates a character while coop play existing characters.

We quit out of principle from how badly designed the coop experience was. It’s like the game was designed entirely for singleplayer and the devs added the ability for people to join into a game and control any available unit.

[Johnny 5]

Originally posted by Raffi:

With 2 other friends and we just watched our buddy play for 30 minutes. He was also skipping through every dialogue option and cutscene so the reality for others is that it’s probably much much longer.

For singleplayer context the part of the game where you can only control 1 character, only 1 person is playing while everyone else watches.

On top of that only the host creates a character while coop play existing characters.

We quit out of principle from how badly designed the coop experience was. It’s like the game was designed entirely for singleplayer and the devs added the ability for people to join into a game and control any available unit.

Yeah that was pretty clear during the dev diaries. I have no idea why anyone would be interested in doing this as a non main character. The only character with any sort of interactions is the Rogue Trader and the companions all have story arches which don't make sense.

You may as well just have oner computer and hot seat the battles. It's bizarre they included it and tacked it on after bg3

[DarkonFullPower]

Originally posted by Raffi:

It’s like the game was designed entirely for singleplayer and the devs added the ability for people to join into a game and control any available unit.

Correct. That is directly the design specs. This was never supposed to be a co-op story.

You CAN make additional custom characters once the lead character is in control of the ship and on the bridge. The merchant man is who to talk to on that.

But the custom characters have no dialogue or contextual options. So you throw a lot of dialogue away for using them. ;(

[Riblion]

It's not that difficult to check reviews/blog posts/videos before buying the game, just saying