Co-Op Multiplayer Questions

[Yawn YS]

Do you unlock PQs one at a time, slowly, by progressing through the story? Or can I co-op all of the PQs with a friend, and skip the rest of the story as soon as I've unlocked the very first PQ?

Also, I read somewhere that you must first complete a PQ offline before you can play it online. Is this true?

What about Expert Quests and raids? Can I play those from the start or must they also be unlocked?

Last question, do you still have to recreate the lobby to play the next mission or was that patched?

[Gaudion]

1. True.
2. Unlocked
3. Don't believe so.

[Yawn YS]

Thanks for responding, dude! And that is just a slew of bad news. I think I still want the game though.

[Xtremza]

Originally posted by Yawn YS:

Thanks for responding, dude! And that is just a slew of bad news. I think I still want the game though.

1. You actually do not have to beat the pq to play it online, just have it unlocked.
2. Have to unlock them to even start a lobby.
3. You actually do have to recreate a lobby to play the NEXT mission. When beating a mission you'll return to the lobby but you can only reattempt the mission. You'll have to leave it and recreate it to advance forward.

[Yawn YS]

Originally posted by Tonny:

Originally posted by Yawn YS:

Thanks for responding, dude! And that is just a slew of bad news. I think I still want the game though.

1. You actually do not have to beat the pq to play it online, just have it unlocked.
2. Have to unlock them to even start a lobby.
3. You actually do have to recreate a lobby to play the NEXT mission. When beating a mission you'll return to the lobby but you can only reattempt the mission. You'll have to leave it and recreate it to advance forward.

You mean I don't actually have to beat any PQs alone then? That's not what Gaudion said. Damn it. Now I don't know what to believe. I hope you're the right one.

And it sucks that they never patched in proper lobby options. Really narrow-sighted and dumb of the devs.

[Xtremza]

Originally posted by Yawn YS:

Originally posted by Tonny:

1. You actually do not have to beat the pq to play it online, just have it unlocked.
2. Have to unlock them to even start a lobby.
3. You actually do have to recreate a lobby to play the NEXT mission. When beating a mission you'll return to the lobby but you can only reattempt the mission. You'll have to leave it and recreate it to advance forward.

You mean I don't actually have to beat any PQs alone then? That's not what Gaudion said. Damn it. Now I don't know what to believe. I hope you're the right one.

And it sucks that they never patched in proper lobby options. Really narrow-sighted and dumb of the devs.

Some pqs only unlock after beating the ones before them. I'm not too sure if beating them online unlocks the next one, but yeah you can play unbeaten pqs that you've unlocked online.

[Apathy]

Expert Quests also need to be unlocked and you'll have to do them at least twice. The reason is you only get credit for Expert quests if you're the host. Raids are available as long as you've advanced far enough in the story to fly (you need to beat Namek saga). If they're not available then you also have to beat Cell Games saga (which is the requirement for EQs).

[Yawn YS]

So, I got the game, and can answer some of my own questions, for additional confirmation.

For anyone checking this from the future, here is what I've learned:

You DO unlock the PQs for online co-op multiplayer slowly, by progressing through the story, one at a time. You cannot skip the story and do all the PQs at once, unless your partner has them all unlocked already (if they have already played through the story).

You do not have to complete a PQ offline before you can play it online.

I haven't encountered any expert quests or raids yet, so I can't comment on those yet.

And yeah, you still have to recreate the lobby each time to play the next mission. It's horrible.

Anyone know when expert quests become available? And are they more interesting than the PQs? Because those are repetitive and mundane.

[Donoghu]

There's some PQ that requires all participating players to have unlocked.
Those are usually the Quest PQ (blue ! on the map). When you launch a multiplayer match with that PQ, you get a warning that only players who have won that PQ at least once (as a blue ! marker) can join.

Since those Quest marker are tied to the Story Progression, it's inevitably makes the PQ locked by story progression without being able to "unlocked" them by joining a friend.

Any "basic" PQ can be played and "won" without unlocking them by joining another player, but if you haven't played the previous PQ of its timeline, it will be kept hidden until you reach it. But it will keep all the progression you have done in it (skills unlocked).