Coop problem Friends can be only stay close on me

[Tsukimasa]

I dont know if its normal but i just wanted to play with my brother in coop. But the prob is, my brother can only stay close. If he go alone little bit far, he is blocked by invisible radius and force him to walk on me. if i walk far his character walk alone on me cause he cant be alone where he want. I want to refund if its a developper choice to force your friend stay close like that. (sorry for my english)

[Zombified]

Its normal.
It's the co-op "tether" - it was explained by one of the devs but basically yes, they are forced to stay near you (the host).

I think the explanation was something to do with the co-op game loads everthing a certain distance around the host so everyone needs to be within that loading distance.

[vackillers]

is there a way to remove the tether restriction? this was quite an issue with ARK.

[Norry]

Best way to remove it is to create a dedicated server (not saying buy one). On the pinned page around page 5 (showing 50 at a time) there is a post by Zombie that has combined the info found by many to help get it going. Then the tether goes away.

[Zombified]

Like Norry said the best way to to host a dedicated server yourself. The sticky has step by step instructions but you do need to download the steamcmd - it will need to basically download the game again (I think anyway I don't use it) so hopefully that isnt an issue.

It is totally free to do it - you just have to have a PC capable of running it AND conan - or a spare PC that can run it while you play.

The dev already confirmed you can't get rid of the tether in co-op and they also won't be extending the tether distance - it's set