I have some questions about co-op mode before buying the game.

[M500]

Before I purchase the game, I would like to know a few things about the Co-op mode:

1.) Does the overall difficulty scale up based on the amount of players in the game, such as 3 players in hard difficulty vs 1 player in hard difficulty.

2.) Is there any restrictions with the campaign when it is in co-op? Such as there being any limits to how far players can be from eachother or disabling cutscenes?

3.) How is data saved on the clients in the co-op? If I was to switch to singleplayer, would I lose all of my items and story progress as they're saved on the host's save file?

4.) Is there friendly fire in the game? If all of the co-op players are fighting together with all melee weapons, is there a chance of players accidently hurting/killing other players?

5.) Is there any form of sharing between the players, such as trading items or experience sharing when killing enemies? On this note, Will there be a lack of resources if players travel together, or is the loot client-side, where if a player opens a loot box, each player sees something different?

6.) when choosing co-op mode, there is a setting just to allow friends to play / add a password to prevent random strangers from entering the game?

[Skuvi]

1. Sadly no, but if you would for example play hardmode with friends as a first time run its going to be hella difficult, and still nice challenge.
2.You can skip past cutscenes if both players agree, you can be as far away from eachother as you'd like with the exception of other maps. You can do all missions together apart from the prologue/tutorial and end mission. You can't progress with some mission objectives solo though, it will say waiting for other party member.
3. When joining/inviting someone to co-op all data is kept and saved like normal, one of you leaving with save the progress and allows you to continu from that point. When one of you however didn't complete the missions before it yet you won't have it completed. You can however if ahead redo missions when joining someone is still doing it.
4. Sorta, things like molotovs, fire/eletrictity effects can still hurt teammates. But no actual hitting eachother.
5. You can drop items freely and trade. You can't trade experience, well you can drop supply crates ( you gather them and return them for xp ). When playing with 2, 3 or 4 every1 will have his own loot. So you will technicly get 4x more loot from a zombie with 4.
6. You can set it to friends, private, open, solo and you can invite them from the ESC interface or clicking the lil ^ next to their name in the friendlist and click invite game.

Let me know if you have some followup questions. Also ignore ed321 this troll is mad because his pc cant handle the game so has to ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ it with multiple accounts.