CO-OP Questions

[AbyssalZombie]

- When playing with a friend or another player is loot personal or shared between both players in the game

- When Two players are in a game does that means enemies scale by detecting two eg; health / damage / speed increase due to second player being around?

- The central town hub when host upgrades say his/her Shrine, does that mean it upgrades for the second player or does the second player need to gatherer the materials as well upgrade the shrine

- During the level you have alters which give a buff, when used do both players get it or do both players need to pray at it?

- So if your playing Hardcore (Valhalla Mode) and host dies during the gameplay does the game end (Close to Menu) for second player who not host?

- What is the distance between two players when you stop gaining experience when killing enemies. Like 100 yards between players and you won't get experience anymore due to being too far away from each other?

- I saw on console you needed to be on same screen when playing CO-OP is it the same for computer as console?

- Potion refilling- is that shared when one player uses the fire to refill his/her does that also refill second player potions?

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This not a co-op question but on release date what time is the game coming out on steam around?

[Hatchetforce]

You do not have to be on the same screen. The game is not screen limited. This was a question I was interested in and Unerde answered for the dev team that you are free to roam in what would be offscreen for your coop partner and I actually think that applies to the console as well.

Here is my original question and his response:

Originally posted by Hatchetforce:

Since we are getting online coop - thanks so much for that feature - I was wondering if the coop is screen limited. Basically I am asking if you and your coop partner are restricted to the same screen or can one player move outside the field of display of the other player's screen.

Originally posted by Unerde:

Hi Hatchetforce.
So is no limitation, such as your coop-partner not being able to leave your screen. So he/she can more or less freely roam, without sticking too close to you.
-cheers

[AbyssalZombie]

Originally posted by Hatchetforce:

You do not have to be on the same screen. The game is not screen limited. This was a question I was interested in and Unerde answered for the dev team that you are free to roam in what would be offscreen for your coop partner and I actually think that applies to the console as well.

Here is my original question and his response:

Originally posted by Hatchetforce:

Since we are getting online coop - thanks so much for that feature - I was wondering if the coop is screen limited. Basically I am asking if you and your coop partner are restricted to the same screen or can one player move outside the field of display of the other player's screen.

Originally posted by Unerde:

Hi Hatchetforce.
So is no limitation, such as your coop-partner not being able to leave your screen. So he/she can more or less freely roam, without sticking too close to you.
-cheers

Alright nice. thanks for reply on the question =)

[Skybreaker]

Hi everybody.
@Hatchetforce
Thank you for going back in and actualy finding our little conversation, as we had quite since then already.

@AbyssalZombie

Originally posted by AbyssalZombie:

- When playing with a friend or another player is loot personal or shared between both players in the game

Everybody has his/her own loot. This means your partner cannot "ninja" your loot, or anything like that.

Originally posted by AbyssalZombie:

- When Two players are in a game does that means enemies scale by detecting two eg; health / damage / speed increase due to second player being around?

Yes, the enemies will adapt to both players.
So if player A is too far away level-wise as player B and player A hosts, player B will have a bad time.
So always the player with the lowest level should open up the game, so the enemies will get slightly more challenging for him/her, but this way he/she can at least play, instead of fearing to get a misled arrow that insta-kills.

Originally posted by AbyssalZombie:

- The central town hub when host upgrades say his/her Shrine, does that mean it upgrades for the second player or does the second player need to gatherer the materials as well upgrade the shrine

The game you will join will stay the host's game. This means everything ahppening to your character (level up, equipment and so on) will stay with your character, but you will not lose or get village upgrades, and/or story-progress. So your actual (singleplayer/host) stor-progress will not be overwritten when joining a buddy who needs some help.

Originally posted by AbyssalZombie:

- During the level you have alters which give a buff, when used do both players get it or do both players need to pray at it?

Originally posted by AbyssalZombie:

- Potion refilling- is that shared when one player uses the fire to refill his/her does that also refill second player potions?

In coop, in does not matter if it comes to altar of healing or a god altar, that gives a temporary buff, both have to activate it to gain the buff. This means player A will not take away the charges of the healing altar for player B and same counts for the buff altars of the gods.

Originally posted by AbyssalZombie:

- So if your playing Hardcore (Valhalla Mode) and host dies during the gameplay does the game end (Close to Menu) for second player who not host?

Good question!
I have not come across that one, but I will get this question to the devs and back to you as soon as I have an answer for that.

Originally posted by AbyssalZombie:

- What is the distance between two players when you stop gaining experience when killing enemies. Like 100 yards between players and you won't get experience anymore due to being too far away from each other?

Be aware that "experience" gained, is blood. So those blood (orbs) will wait for you, until you have caught up.

Originally posted by AbyssalZombie:

This not a co-op question but on release date what time is the game coming out on steam around?

I cannot make any promises or giving a specific time.
Actually it is quite common that valve unlocks the game at around 6-7pm CET. So this will be the time you should be around on the 24h of March, which is actually only 15days ahead.

-cheers

[AbyssalZombie]

@Unerde, thank you for answering my questions. Everything from what I read seems good to me and cannot wait to play co-op start to finish with my friend =)

[Skybreaker]

Hi AbyssalZombie.
So here is the update on Co-Op Valhalla Mode:
The game is not lost as long as both players are alive, as they can revive each other.
So if one of you dies, not all hell breaks loose
Hope that gets you covered, but feel always free to ask.
-cheers

[AbyssalZombie]

Originally posted by Unerde:

Hi AbyssalZombie.
So here is the update on Co-Op Valhalla Mode:
The game is not lost as long as both players are alive, as they can revive each other.
So if one of you dies, not all hell breaks loose :rulez:
Hope that gets you covered, but feel always free to ask.
-cheers

Thank you for that. I'll tell my friend and we cannot wait for release to play this in co-op Valhalla Mode =)

[♥Melovia♥]

im the friend of abyssal :) we will stream 24 hours at least at release and play coop valhalla together ! thanks for all these answers u guys are awsome !

[Skybreaker]

Sounds great and we really appreciate it!
Keep it up and stay hyped!
-cheers

[CrowsBeforeHoes]

Can you play Local Couch Co-Op? Only reason I'd buy this unfortunately.

[AbyssalZombie]

Originally posted by CrowsBeforeHoes:

Can you play Local Couch Co-Op? Only reason I'd buy this unfortunately.

Originally posted by Unerde:

Will there be couch/splitscreen co-op?
Sorry, no. There are currently no plans to implement couch/splitscreen co-op.

Was in FAQ section of forums.

[CrowsBeforeHoes]

Originally posted by AbyssalZombie:

Originally posted by CrowsBeforeHoes:

Can you play Local Couch Co-Op? Only reason I'd buy this unfortunately.

Originally posted by Unerde:

Will there be couch/splitscreen co-op?
Sorry, no. There are currently no plans to implement couch/splitscreen co-op.

Was in FAQ section of forums.

Complete trash. For this price, no Couch Co-Op is just unacceptable.
Your telling people who play as a couple or live together to buzz off, basically.
Lost my interest!

[Coco]

I also would love to have one screen coop. However, the price is no argument for that. If you look around the store, you'll find only very few games supporting this type of coop.

It clearly would have been a big pro for Vikings, but unfortunately, it doesn't have it.