Only coop up to 4 players, or online too?

[WRC]

Someone can confirm , if it's only local Coop up to 4 players,or will be online multilayer too?

[Lechuck]

If the PS(4/Vita) games are any indication, both local and online. Though local online on pc seems a bit weird.

[Helios373]

Online multiplayer too.

[Phiqu]

Just online coop up to 4 player. There is no local / splitscreen coop mode.

[Janrin]

You guys say that with a lot of confidence, but there is no Online Co-Op listing on the steam page.

[WRC]

well, this is why i created the post... so, im more confused now xD, i wish there will be online mode. if not, then i will not buy the game ever if goes on sale anytime...

[SnarKs]

Originally posted by WR'HJanrin:

You guys say that with a lot of confidence, but there is no Online Co-Op listing on the steam page.

Thats because steam doesnt give developers an option to list "Online Coop". Choices are, Multiplayer, COOP, and local Coop.

Edit - also, it does have online coop, https://twitter.com/koeitecmoeurope/status/609351317816016896

[Wolf Vantage]

Originally posted by WR'HJanrin:

You guys say that with a lot of confidence, but there is no Online Co-Op listing on the steam page.

This game has no such thing as "local co-op". Unless you mean old-school style LAN party with 4 computers in one rooom.

[Tsurugido]

Vita hersion has both adhoc and multiplayer. PC. Online is given. Number of missions is online exclusive.

[DevilBlackDoom]

Originally posted by PixelPolish:

Originally posted by WR'HJanrin:

You guys say that with a lot of confidence, but there is no Online Co-Op listing on the steam page.

This game has no such thing as "local co-op". Unless you mean old-school style LAN party with 4 computers in one rooom.

Well local co-op does include LAN coop. If we were still in a world where every multiplayer games accept LAN as a way to play online modes, we could say that local co-op only means "couch co-op", unfortunately most games don't, so this having it is a good thing and I think we can say it's local co-op (who would play it in split screen anyway xD)

[Wolf Vantage]

Local co-op in most people's understanding means two or more people playing on the same machine - one screen, split screen, etc. When it's on more than one machine it's no longer local, it's networked - the other machine could just as well be in a different room/building ;)

[DevilBlackDoom]

Yes I know that :P I personally thought the same, but with how the industry evolved (in the wrong direction obviously, because LAN always was a must-have feature) I have personally changed how I see this word, though I still hope the industry will go back and make LAN MP a common feature again

[Trooper_Max]

Originally posted by PixelPolish:

Local co-op in most people's understanding means two or more people playing on the same machine - one screen, split screen, etc. When it's on more than one machine it's no longer local, it's networked - the other machine could just as well be in a different room/building ;)

True, but there is a difference between multiplayer that works well for a LAN party (all or at least most traffic goes through the local switch, internet not necessarily required) and multiplayer that is more online/internet focused (requires communication with and/or through internet servers that may cause lag).

I've read people say an internet connection is required to even start this game though losing connection once launched is fine, but I haven't tested that or even tried multiplayer yet. Would this game work well for a LAN party? Never actually been to one, I think they have gone out of style, but my friend at work keeps trying to get me to go to his.

~Troop

[Aziraya]

There is not "local coop" in the sense of splitscreen. Splitscreen does not exist for this game. I have no idea if LAN would work on this game, but there is certainly online coop. The people you can choose to play with is based on your Steam download server so you may need to switch to a more active server to get a decent playerbase.

If you can get LAN to work for this game, then yeah, having it at a LAN party would be pretty cool but would probably not be played for long. With only a certain amount of big baddies (with about half of them being reskins of others with slightly different attacks) available to you to fight, fighting the same thing over and over would get boring fairly fast. That, and everyone would need to have gone through far enough to unlock those fights because highest online missions you can take are dictated by the lowest person. Expect an hour or two of playtime in a LAN group before people want to switch to something else.

And yes, you do have to be connected to the internet to start the game because of some DRM in there that, as far as I know, hasn't been put on the store page (which really irritates me). However, I can confirm that you can unplug the internet after you get it running perfectly fine.