Can someone explain the coop to me?

[Valasy]

I want to get into it, but don't normally play these style of games. Is it an open world where you see other players or is it strictly single-player unless someone is invited into the world?

[PhDMonster]

It's party based. You invite someone to your party and you can join levels together, do the campaign, visit each other's bases and do almost (if not 100%) of the content together.
Towns are basically hubs where you'll see other players, but not out in the world like an MMORPG or like in Diablo 4.

[zaratan4o]

You are solo, unless you are in a party together.

So you need to invite people or be invited, otherwise you are solo.

[FloRyu]

You can do all content solo or in coop of 6. There's no content that requires a group
Even if you play solo you will see other people in towns and if you play in the trade league you can trade with others, everything but gold is tradable
In coop you get more exp, more drops and mobs/bosses get more hp

[Valasy]

Originally posted by FloRyu:

You can do all content solo or in coop of 6. There's no content that requires a group
Even if you play solo you will see other people in towns and if you play in the trade league you can trade with others, everything but gold is tradable
In coop you get more exp, more drops and mobs/bosses get more hp

So you can still interact with others / trade / show off gear even in solo play? That's pretty neat.

[FloRyu]

Forgot to say that in Poe2 coop will be better ,skills interact with each other like they showed in the gameplay trailer so if a player puts down a flame wall you can interact with that shoot lightning through it and it will buff your skill , a lot of interactions like that

[DaDonik[GER]]

This video shows and explains couch coop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsGUuQHLYLc

[Farsha]

COOP in ARPGs is a bad experience.
Most of the time one of the players will have stronger character and just carry the rest who will get bored quickly as they have very little to do.
And in Gear based game with insane scalling, it can't really be avoided.

[TheOne320]

Gear does not drop only for you like in D4. All gear and currency gets dropped for everyone in the party to pickup. There are some settings like binding it to a player for some time or permanently or let it be free for all. But all players see all drops. Personally I like the player based drop system of D4 more and as I dislike seeing all the drops that I cannot have and play solo most of the time because of that.