How is the Co-Op Play?

[Brown]

When the game first came out I heard people complaining about the co-op play not being that great. Something about the person joining your game could not get better gear or something like that.

How is the co-op these days? Have they made improvements?

Thank You!

<3

[JandT]

I think the leaders story is the only one that counts

[Sentient_Toaster]

Guests do not keep "world progression" -- e.g. progress with respect to missions, outposts, specialists, GFH, or resistance levels. This does mean that, as a guest, you can't unlock perks like Master Blaster or Weapon Collector, or Leadership. Only the host can have or give orders to a specialist or GFH, and they can only have one even given Leadership.

Guests do keep "player progression" -- e.g. money, inventory, progress towards challenges.

[Terminator2000]

Fun

[MaddogDino]

The mechanics of it means you cannot venture too ar away from each other but I'm ok with that, you are the hosts gun for hire after all. It can get a little troublesome when your host presses 'E' rather than 'D' in a plane/helicopter and leaves you in the passenger seat as they bail out by accident.
Also to note, when playing as a guest, make sure to press Esc and do a manual save or all of your perk's/cash/items bought during the session will be lost.

Gameplay is smooth, exciting and I love me some payment through Pepper Stash's for my services rendered.

[stescher]

how about voice chat?
how do you communicate?

[stescher]

basically I'm going to get this for my brother for Christmas. I've played through the campaign a fe times and still love it. Just wondering how we will be able to talk back and forth.

[Brown]

You can use Steam to talk or another voicecom app. My concern is whether or not the game is fun to play co-op.

[Sentient_Toaster]

Originally posted by stescher:

how about voice chat?
how do you communicate?

There's voice chat. Default should be 'B' (broadcast?) if using K+M. Think there's also an option to leave the mic always-on and triggered by sound.

If you want to send text chat, you can do that via the UPlay overlay (Shift + F2 might be default), but given that this is a real-time game and you can be downed pretty quickly while you're typing a message, I would highly encourage using headsets and voice chat instead.

[Sentient_Toaster]

Originally posted by MaddogDino:

Gameplay is smooth, exciting and I love me some payment through Pepper Stash's for my services rendered. :FC5_Cheeseburger:

Ah. This bit is worth highlighting. Loot appears to basically be duplicated and independent for each player -- e.g. host and guest can each grab the same loot, whether it's looting the same body or grabbing perk magazines. So e.g. there shouldn't be any need to argue about who gets to pick up a given item.

FWIW, the guest also gets some perk points if the host completes a mission that intrinsically grants perk points (like defeating a boss).