Local Co-Op: More Difficult?

[EngieKev]

Does the difficulty scale up with local co-op as opposed to single player? I was playing through solo for a bit (usually play local co-op) and it seemed like the enemies were much easier, and there were far more health drops.

If that is true, it would be a nice feature to have a difficulty slider for local co-op. We really love this game, great story and atmosphere, but my girlfriend is a bit miffed by the difficulty. I realize the answer is to grind and get better, which we do! But it is frustrating to get very few health drops on some runs.

[Mac Sneaky Blade Torpedo]

Games like this usually scale with no. of players, yes. Haven't tried co-op, though. Have you tried playing Lucy? She is very forgiving being ranged with damage block and a decoy, so it's easier to avoid hits.

[B.Z.B]

Co-op def feels harder then solo, also the camera doesn't revolve around you, so its hard to see stuff out of your line of sight.

[Wesker Frank]

Enemies seem to hit harder in coop. also First boss spawn 4 spiders instead of 2 so probably more enemies overall.

[Bileh DK]

I totally agree with you, I've got the same issue. Playing with my wife co-op feels terrible. We're doing the first stage after firts big boss and:
- There are more enemies in co-op
- They have far more health, so much that lucy (the fire wiz) attacks seem like nothing, and melee characters just get overwhelmed
- We have trouble killing even the most basic mobs. The little snakes take like 10+ hits to kill, this is level 8-9 of the damage upgrade and level 6 of the critical% upgrade.
- There is like 10% chance we survive when purple enemies start spawning. The fast ones hit super hard, take 10+ hits to kill and are very difficult to dodge.

Now we have unlocked Joey, who's a complete joke. He takes like 1 second to wind his attack, which is way more than enough for any enemy to close in to hit him, meaning you have to guess the timing and positioning of them. Even then, he takes like 5 hits to kill anything, and also dies in a few hits, no chance against a group of enemies.

I wanted so much to like this game, but now I'm feeling only frustration and regret.

[conantheimp]

Yeah, I think I kinda agree, at least in part: the early-game is pretty brutal until you've unlocked a good chunk of the 4th level passives and bought about 8-16 stat increases. 1-2(with the goblins) particularly always kicks my butt even in single-player when I start a new profile since it introduces more dangerous ranged enemies.

If anything, I wouldn't add a difficulty slider... I'd readjust early-game difficulty to ease players into things more. ATM the difficulty curve is rather steep early on, and gets a LOT easier as you get further in, which is kind of backwards, right? I shouldn't be breazing through World 3 with only two or three deaths(mostly the product of bad RNG) when 1-2 took me an order of magnitude greater in tries.

Another possibility: start with higher stats? A lot of the problem just stems from encounters becoming stat-checks when you have to divide your attention. It's not HARD to kite a bunch of melee mobs while avoiding a few ranged mob attacks(until they start using CC walls...but that's okay), the issue comes when they all refuse to die because you can only do chip damage, because the health-drops are relatively rare. Also make XP come in faster for underleveled characters(maybe compare to level average?) to achieve a similar effect there.

I love this game tons, and I think it's Co-Op mode is fun as hell once you get going, but it does have it's fair share of balance issues. (on that note, please make Lucy good in general, and make Apan better solo! Everyone else is fine but they need some TLC <3 )

[sisTma]

Is it possible to play the main story in local co-op?

[conantheimp]

Originally posted by sisTma:

Is it possible to play the main story in local co-op?

Yes! It's almost exactly the same as online or single-player. The intro mission doesn't allow co-op, but after that it's fine.

[Kozzy]

love local coop on this