HOW TO PLAY CO-OP IN DEAD EFFECT 2

[INGAME STUDIOS]

Hello community!
It might be a bit early to post tutorials and guides, but we wanted to post a brief how-to for the co-op mode, since I guess that's what most of you are eager to play, right?

Please note that the co-op is not available in the main menu when you start the game.
To unlock the co-op mode, you need to finish the first two story levels in the single-player mode.
After that, you get access to the holomap where you can choose to play in the co-op mode.
Both the story levels and special missions can be played by 3 players.
The difficulty will scale according to the number of players (if you play with friends, you'll get more enemies than when playing solo).

Please note that we are still in the process of optimizing the game, especially the co-op, that's why the game is first coming out in Early Access - so that we can consider your feedback and work with it to make the game better.

I hope you guys will all enjoy the co-op when the game comes out! In the meantime, you can post all your co-op related questions here, we will do our best to answer them all.

EDIT: We're working on improving the matchmaking system for the upcoming update. It will be possible to join mid-game and you will be able to play even locked missions (those you haven't unlocked yet in single player). This is for the special missions - Biohazard and Survival. More changes and updates for the story levels as well will come in the future updates.

[Goro3D]

I'm not stubborn in the least and I finished the first 2 mission but its been a while and found more interesting games to play where it really dosen't matter anymore. Sometime in the future I will give it a try again right now other games are holding my attention.

[Nosteru]

引用自 Goro3d：

I'm not stubborn in the least and I finished the first 2 mission but its been a while and found more interesting games to play where it really dosen't matter anymore. Sometime in the future I will give it a try again right now other games are holding my attention.

Now this sound a little different. Enjoy your time then with your preferred game. Check back sometime when the DLC hit here.

[Goro3D]

Will do

[JAJO1881]

引用自 Verrigan Holmes：

I like this. Too many games give you multiplayer right off the bat. It gives no incentive to get invested in the characters and the lore behind their world. With a system like this, you have to at least give the plot a chance before diving straight into gormless multiplayer shenanigans.

I apologize that you went full screeching autistic here with this comment. I bought this game specifically to play co op with my friends.

[Strategius]

How can you chat ingame while playing co-op?

[Nosteru]

引用自 Strategius4：

How can you chat ingame while playing co-op?

Press "K".

[shigor]

lol, Goro3d, you got me scared... cleaning up my older responses since you've delete yours

[Strategius]

Another question about co-op: I played together with a friend who has lv20 char, mine was lv3. The problem was I got no xp, so is my estimation true that only the person who kills a monster gets the xp from it, right? Meaning that a low level char has no chacne to kill the strong monster resulting in getting no xp. That is what I experienced, correct me if i am wrong and tell me how a lv20 char can play together with a lower level char still getting xp and leveling up.

[shigor]

you should get a share from the kill assist (see kill assists in the summary - as long as you've damaged some monster at least a little, you should get something). and game scales difficulty and levels, so it's possible for high and low level characters to play. Real highlevel chars usually have enough boosts from armor and weapon upgrades that they will tend to play on higher difficulties. And although it's possible to play on nightmare or hell with lower level character, it's... nightmarish hell without good equipment ;)

[blackice 2142]

引用自 Redhotjets：

Going to give Killing Floor 2 a run for their money

killing floor sucks ass compared to this

[Spray & Pray]

引用自 blackice 2142：

killing floor sucks *** compared to this

Rofl.

Dead Effect 2 current players (as I type this): 2 All-time concurrent max: 264
Killing Floor (1) current players: 453 All-time concurrent max: 24,107
Killing Floor (2) current players: 5118 All-time concurrent max: 69987

Killing Floor (1) was released 17 YEARS ago.

DE2 could and should have been a brilliant game, but restricting the coop max to 3 players alienates a lot of groups, I don't play it because I have 3 regular coop friends.

Also, even getting into a coop game in DE2 is a user=hostile nightmare. Frankly, the devs killed their own game with a single stupid design decision and a non-friendly interface.

This is a shame, because DE2 could have been great, it should have been great. I desperately wanted to like it and play it with my coop friends, I posted on the forums, made suggestions, but the devs just ignored all the player's comments until there were no players left.

[blackice 2142]

引用自 Spray & Pray：

引用自 blackice 2142：

killing floor sucks *** compared to this

Rofl.

Dead Effect 2 current players (as I type this): 2 All-time concurrent max: 264
Killing Floor (1) current players: 453 All-time concurrent max: 24,107
Killing Floor (2) current players: 5118 All-time concurrent max: 69987

Killing Floor (1) was released 17 YEARS ago.

DE2 could and should have been a brilliant game, but restricting the coop max to 3 players alienates a lot of groups, I don't play it because I have 3 regular coop friends.

Also, even getting into a coop game in DE2 is a user=hostile nightmare. Frankly, the devs killed their own game with a single stupid design decision and a non-friendly interface.

This is a shame, because DE2 could have been great, it should have been great. I desperately wanted to like it and play it with my coop friends, I posted on the forums, made suggestions, but the devs just ignored all the player's comments until there were no players left.

still better

[Spray & Pray]

引用自 blackice 2142：

still better

Actually, I agree with you. DE2 certainly has the potential to be a better game than KF2. KF2 is the only game I have ever refunded on Steam. KF1 (my personal opinion) is way better than KF2 (and yes KF1 is also better than DE2). I didn't refund DE2 because it had (has?) such great potential, ruined by a couple of very silly design decisions. And the punters obviously agree otherwise it would have more than 264 players as the concurrent max, and 2 players playing at present.

Edit: the forthcoming mega-patch is going to help, particularly the ability to play coop with friends from the get-go on the first two maps. But PLEASE make it easy to play coop, and not have to hunt through menus and keypresses.

But the devs will still have a failure on their hands despite the efforts put into the mega-patch. Why? Because players buy this type of game to play coop with their friends and randoms, and really this game needs a 4 player limit not 3. And I say failure with a very heavy heart, since I would love to see this game succeed and increase player numbers, but that one insane design decision has cost the game and all it's fans dearly.

Think about it - would L4D, Payday2, Killing Floor, Borderlands, Division etc etc have been as successful if they didn't support 4 player coop?

[blackice 2142]

引用自 Spray & Pray：

引用自 blackice 2142：

still better

Actually, I agree with you. DE2 certainly has the potential to be a better game than KF2. KF2 is the only game I have ever refunded on Steam. KF1 (my personal opinion) is way better than KF2 (and yes KF1 is also better than DE2). I didn't refund DE2 because it had (has?) such great potential, ruined by a couple of very silly design decisions. And the punters obviously agree otherwise it would have more than 264 players as the concurrent max, and 2 players playing at present.

Edit: the forthcoming mega-patch is going to help, particularly the ability to play coop with friends from the get-go on the first two maps. But PLEASE make it easy to play coop, and not have to hunt through menus and keypresses.

But the devs will still have a failure on their hands despite the efforts put into the mega-patch. Why? Because players buy this type of game to play coop with their friends and randoms, and really this game needs a 4 player limit not 3. And I say failure with a very heavy heart, since I would love to see this game succeed and increase player numbers, but that one insane design decision has cost the game and all it's fans dearly.

Think about it - would L4D, Payday2, Killing Floor, Borderlands, Division etc etc have been as successful if they didn't support 4 player coop?

indeed

[Spray & Pray]

引用自 blackice 2142：

引用自 Spray & Pray：

Actually, I agree with you. DE2 certainly has the potential to be a better game than KF2. KF2 is the only game I have ever refunded on Steam. KF1 (my personal opinion) is way better than KF2 (and yes KF1 is also better than DE2). I didn't refund DE2 because it had (has?) such great potential, ruined by a couple of very silly design decisions. And the punters obviously agree otherwise it would have more than 264 players as the concurrent max, and 2 players playing at present.

Edit: the forthcoming mega-patch is going to help, particularly the ability to play coop with friends from the get-go on the first two maps. But PLEASE make it easy to play coop, and not have to hunt through menus and keypresses.

But the devs will still have a failure on their hands despite the efforts put into the mega-patch. Why? Because players buy this type of game to play coop with their friends and randoms, and really this game needs a 4 player limit not 3. And I say failure with a very heavy heart, since I would love to see this game succeed and increase player numbers, but that one insane design decision has cost the game and all it's fans dearly.

Think about it - would L4D, Payday2, Killing Floor, Borderlands, Division etc etc have been as successful if they didn't support 4 player coop?

indeed

I'm glad you agree. 4 player coop has been asked for since the game was released, and the devs have completely ignored the request. Even the mega-thread detailing the mega-patch which will fail does not have a single mention by the devs concerning 4 players.

Enough. I don't even have the game installed any more, but keep coming back just to see if this one essential item has received a mention. I will just add this game to the list of games where the devs have killed their own game.