Coop with friends requirements

[RXDimA]

How to get Coop working with friends? Do we have to be on the same difficulty? I'm having trouble getting connected with my friends.

[Sad Pug]

There is no co-op per se, there is only one mission where you actually somewhat co-op, but you have to be playing at the same time and in the options set friends as priority.

[RXDimA]

At the least I want to do those cameo appearances when my friends play. We set friends as priority and played at the same sections yet we couldn't connect, although there was something strange when we saw our own names in the "Starring" part of the UI.

[bocodamondo™]

its interesting how they do have a fully working co op system (probably taken from resident evil 6) but is used so little in this game, it might as well not be there in first place..
.because if you luckily manage to find a player in mission 7, and you two stick around until the boss fight, the game does have the whole (wont skip cutscene until both players skip it) system like co cop games usually do.

[Grump]

mission 7 and 13, 13 being the mission with the most true co-op in the game as each 3 players with different characters V, Dante, Nero fight together for the 3 layers of massive enemy spawn you should connect to other players with different characters on the same difficulty and layer that you are on, however should you not connect to the player you want you can try to hit pause drop the players you are matched with and the system will auto pair you with either the same or others in or on the same section that you are.... anyways hope that helps, other than 13, mission 7 is pretty garbage for coop as its just the angelos and they dont need any coop assistance or would really be worth grinding for 3 minutes of coop