does co-op still work (2021)

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does co-op still work in 2021? i know the previous games have had shut downs with it's online services and was just wondering if co-op is still available... i can only really see posts from 2017-2019.

[-=SAMI=-]

yes coop work

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Originally posted by -=SAMI=-:

yes coop work

thank you, it's really appreciated

[Boboscus]

Work is an overstatement, it never worked properly, netcode is so bad you'll want to tear your face off, the client is getting DC-ed after there's more than few effects on the screen, there is a bypass but you have to not participate in order to be able to play in COOP. Just skip it in all of the SR games, unless they fixed it in remastered, which I doubt.

[Zerachan]

TL:DR Summary at bottom.

Coop works well enough in my experience, only notable exception/peeve in coop over singleplayer is that it won't check if you're the actual owner of any tank you jump into and thus it always results in full 5 police/military alert. (Especially true for the one that aint host.)
Edit addition: The unique saints crusader is special in that it doesn't cause alert states like other tanks do, so in coop that unique one is the only useable tank by player 2 unless you actually want full-blown war with the military.
(Most likely because while the design is based on regular crusaders, it's an unique one that never occur normally in the gameworld.)

Do note I'm talking about playing only with dlc's and not mods/cheats.
It's possible one or more of those screw with things, since netcode don't cover tank ownership there's probably alot more holes in it that could prove problematic while using mods/cheats.
Edit addition: We've run two copies in coop together on two laptops side by side seeing the responses and such between, played through most contents that way, and one of us connected by landline the other through cellphone so it's a proper internetcoop and not local-lan. (So I'd say it's defo playable, if you ignore the issue with tanks.)

Last edit addition: If you somehow still run into issues, some might be mitigated by the steam settings "In-Game" section, enabling steam networking to share your IP address with those you play together with.. (Because the game netcode really don't like slower latencies and without sharing you WILL have worse latencies.)

NEW EDIT ADDITION: Forgot to mention that there is an old bug with "Guardian Angel" mainstory mission, that crashes player2 to desktop.
You can avoid it for sure by player2 not upgrading weapons used in it,rocket+sniper that is.


Summary:
1: Player2 shouldn't upgrade sniper+rocket before they've completed "Guardian Angel" in coop. (the surefire way to avoid crash-to-desktop.)
2: Player2 shouldn't use any other tank than the pimped "Saints Crusader" even if he own others unless you want a somewhat buggy fullblown war with the military.
3: Try minimize latency issues through steam IP-sharing, since they can cause some seriously weird bugs at times if latency is too lousy.

[Soapsy]

I don't know what you played tbh this game has the best netcode in games I played I am from India and I played with people from america/austria/italy from start to end without any issues. I mentioned this statement not to raise an argument but to ensure that you can play this with good enough net speed and barely any crashes while doing so.

[Chere]

It works well. It seems that there are no servers for this game, players connect to each other instead