Ada Wong campaign....how is this co-op!?

[swfc_dan]

Just tried the Ada Wong campaign with a friend and well, im amazed he persisted with it as long as he did considering I was playing as Ada. Ada seems bad ass with the crossbow, cartwheels, and zip wire.

Her partner...."Agent"? He has no steath weapons to start with so can only help by doing melee attacks to maintain stealth, can't open doors, can't solve any puzzles, has to be lifted up somehow by Ada's zipwire.

How do they expect anyone to want to play though that as him! And even if you switched characters at end of chapters, wouldn't that mean you'd lose all the weapons gained?

Surely this is single player only! What were they thinking?

[Dfactor]

It was single player from the get go.
Agent was added later when people complained that the campaign wasn't coopable. He's an afterthrought so he can't interact with stuff. Even though it's possible to change that with some modding, I think.
Funny enough, now you're kinda doing the opposite. Agent has separate inventory, so you wouldn't lose anything.

[swfc_dan]

Ok didn't realise that as haven't had the game long.
What do you mean we're doing the opposite though. So if we switched at end of chapters we would only lose Ada's weapons not Agents? Still a pretty crappy outcome though, as she barely starts with any arrows (4).

[Dfactor]

No, you don't lose anything. The inventory system works same as with other character pairs.
If you play as character 2 and then switch to character 1 then you'll switch inventories. And vice versa.

[swfc_dan]

Hmm the only time we've switched was after we fully completed Leons campaign, and wanted to try chapter 5 in each others shoes. We chose chapter select 5-1 and I as Leon now suddenly had only a pistol to use. That doesn't seem like inventories getting switched to me?

[Koy (short break)]

i dont really play past chris and peirs much. ada and... uhm robocop cant even play together anymore.... that part is an after thought

[Lanzagranadas]

Originally posted by swfc_dan:

Hmm the only time we've switched was after we fully completed Leons campaign, and wanted to try chapter 5 in each others shoes. We chose chapter select 5-1 and I as Leon now suddenly had only a pistol to use. That doesn't seem like inventories getting switched to me?

If you completed Leon's story as Helena and your friend played as Leon, the next time you start playing as Leon you'll start with a vanilla inventory. As people here explained you won't inherit your friend's weapons and items, the game only stores your inventory data for each character individually. So if you never touched certain character yourself, said character will have his/her default inventory.