How is the coop?

[State Line Crosser]

Any bad bugs or problems associated with it?

Any questions about crossplay? Look below.

[Vesperon80]

Make sure the player who is least likely to abandon the game prematurely (due to lack of time or motivation to play) is the host. If the host leaves, others would have to start a new game or stop until the next session. Also, make sure the host doesn't play in that particular world alone, since the weather is becoming colder over time, while the offline players can't use that time to prepare for the winter as well.

Make sure your privacy setting in the game is Friends (not Public), unless you want strangers to join. Otherwise some kind of jerk could join and take items from your hideout etc.

Other than that, I haven't heard about any bad issues with coop. Playing with friends and using voice comms is optimal. Sharing info and funny stuff that happens to you makes the coop fun. Communicating about dumpster diving and looting is also desirable, so you don't keep opening empty dumpsters all the time.

[Alumno Superstes]

They should introduce gangs in this game, alike guilds in MMOS. that could open Gang missions and events etc.

[clouded-silver]

Could someone share more information on how the co-op looks like, quest-wise? If I already played for 30+ hrs in single player mode, would beginning the co-op with new players reset my progress or can I continue with the same character? Do we share trust levels with NPCs?

[Vesperon80]

Originally posted by clouded-silver:

Could someone share more information on how the co-op looks like, quest-wise? If I already played for 30+ hrs in single player mode, would beginning the co-op with new players reset my progress or can I continue with the same character? Do we share trust levels with NPCs?

From what I've seen and heard on streams, every player has his/her own progress (quests, trust, votes). You share the hideouts and dumpsters. The main appeal of the coop is sharing knowledge and having fun together in voice comms. Specializing and communicating about who's doing what and who's looting where helps. You can also help each other by trading stuff.

You could invite new players into your advanced world, but it's generally not a good idea, since the weather gets progressively colder (and 2nd/3rd season have a bit worse weather and more calamities, although every season starts with warm weather). Even if you gave clothes and other stuff to the new players, they would still have kinda hard time as newbies in colder weather. Getting a lot of stuff in the beginning from other player also isn't an optimal gameplay experience. So starting a new world dedicated for coop makes sense. Also, if you as the host continued playing in your coop world after your buddies went offline, it would be also kinda bad for them (losing time to prepare for the next winter).

Even though inviting more players to your world shouldn't affect your progress, you can back up your world and character by copying the save folder (...\Steam\steamapps\common\Hobo Tough Life\HoboRPG_Data\Save). If your game is running, you should first pause it (Escape and then Quit to menu). Just in case something bad happened, so you could "reload" your previous state of the world and char (like if you invited someone who you don't know well and it turned out they're sabotaging your hideout or something like that).

[clouded-silver]

Thank you so much! Just what I needed to start the co-op :)

[hyunk]

how can you make a 4+ player server?

[svarjak]

Hello can I play multiplayer with my friends .my friends play on PS4 and I pc can play together?

[State Line Crosser]

Originally posted by svarjak:

Hello can I play multiplayer with my friends .my friends play on PS4 and I pc can play together?

I googled for you just to confirm what I remembered: this game doesn't have crossplay.

[MentalRobot]

Originally posted by State Line Crosser:

Originally posted by svarjak:

Hello can I play multiplayer with my friends .my friends play on PS4 and I pc can play together?

I googled for you just to confirm what I remembered: this game doesn't have crossplay.

Everything I read when googling it says it does have crossplay, and when you make a lobby there is an option for crossplay on or off.

I haven't tested it yet but was going to convince my xbox friend to buy it

[State Line Crosser]

Originally posted by MentalRobot:

Originally posted by State Line Crosser:

I googled for you just to confirm what I remembered: this game doesn't have crossplay.

Everything I read when googling it says it does have crossplay, and when you make a lobby there is an option for crossplay on or off.

I haven't tested it yet but was going to convince my xbox friend to buy it

Booted up the game to see (it has EOS now yuck). I was wrong for sure; the game does have crossplay. I don't know if it is to consoles or just between epic and steam though.

Edit: There are about 3x as many games with crossplay on so I think it does allow consoles as well but Idk how to confirm for sure.

[PerunCreative]

Hi,

yes the game support crossplay between all platforms: Steam, Xbox, PS4/5 and Switch.

[MentalRobot]

Originally posted by PerunCreative:

Hi,

yes the game support crossplay between all platforms: Steam, Xbox, PS4/5 and Switch.

That's awesome! thank you so much.

[Shodan]

It is very hard to find your friend's game, there is no search engine in the join list and can't use steam friends to join !