What are your plans with co-op

[Lord]

i saw on the steam page you plan on having pvp and co-op. I just want to know how you plan on implementing the co-op and if it will be available when the game goes into early access.

[Ozzey_Lee]

Multiplayer field and siege battles would be really cool, the large open world map looks to have more than too many locations to give variety.

[Lord]

Originally posted by Ozzey_Lee:

Multiplayer field and siege battles would be really cool, the large open world map looks to have more than too many locations to give variety.

i agree. the co-op could be two(or even more) lords similar to a total war co-op campaign or it could be controlling the same lord. I could see there being alot to do when you become big.

[Dev Konstantin]

There are two main co-op elements that we are planning:

1) dedicated co-op town siege and defense mode, both vs AI or players - this is similar to what we had to MKW, but really streamlined to be a pure coop experience with sharing resources, units, defenses e.t.c

2) in RKW the focus of early and mid-game is on player being a mercenary captain, with a lot of fighting being in a mission or support format. Our goal is to allow players from their own campaign to take part in these battles. Sort of like a sit-in feature from other games, but it makes a lot more sense in these scenarios and players will bring their own armies. (this part will not be available right on initial EA launch)

3) Player can choose to take his campaign online at any point where he can chat and trade with other players playing their campaign, there interaction are limited to social and trading.

4) More elements we are considering adding

[Post_Nord]

Do we know when the the 3. Option is out?

[Dev Konstantin]

Originally posted by Post_Nord:

Do we know when the the 3. Option is out?

We`ll need to see how the early access launch goes and what player feedback is about priorities. We`ll be running polls asking our players what they think we should focus on.

With that said - the coop battles is one of the biggest projects left in RKW to develop, so my best estimate is we`ll have that in by summer.

[PossibleTango]

If it's not true multiplayer I don't see why you would want to spend resources on making it at all? Limited multiplayer tends to be not very fun.

[Jyria]

Really hope for proper multiplayer as in the entire campain map is multiplayer. My friend group will happily play together in a 4 man campain map and if battles happen we will wait for the battle to end (Like warhammer multiplayer campain)

[2005Guyver02]

Originally posted by Jyria:

Really hope for proper multiplayer as in the entire campain map is multiplayer. My friend group will happily play together in a 4 man campain map and if battles happen we will wait for the battle to end (Like warhammer multiplayer campain)

Granted this test was in March, but here is a look at the testing of Co-op/Multiplayer:
https://youtu.be/_atevqMyzWw

[Voldo]

coop/PVE should be like in Total Wars, one big map and players could play as own lords, make own kingdoms, and form alliance/participate in common battles. then I would be interested in this game, since Total War doesn't make historical games anymore and newest Age of Empires is just bad, small companies could exploit this gap that RTS+city builder players need

[Kuikka]

I'm also interested in coop aspect of this game, and will be waiting for more information on how you Devs are going to implement it.

[2005Guyver02]

you can play together as well as against each other, some of it is in the video I made in March, While I was testing day before yesterday and yesterday you might be able to pickup on part of it in yesterdays and today's video, even tough I was only going through the tutorial and first campaign levels. (YouTube & Rumble @2005Guyver02)

[Dev Konstantin]

Hey guys I`m sorry to say but we can`t manage to do a full on multiplayer campaign that games like Total War done. It`s just two of us developers work on the game.

Our plan right now is just what we mentioned above - doing drop in battles, and events, where player can use their armies to fight with other players armies or cities, in place of AI.