Co-op Bugs (GAME BREAKING)

[Xeldath]

My friend and I preordered the game and starting a co-op playthrough yesterday. After about 10 or so hours of the playthrough, we encountered a completely game-breaking bug that caused use to quit out playthrough until the patches come our. Here is a list of the bugs we encountered throughout our playthrough:

1. Infinite loading screen: this is probably the most common bug, every few instance changes or so the loading screen will infinitely load at about 30% (sometimes 100%). The fix that we found: load the game in single-player, enter the instance and save, then reload in multiplayer. You can also chance it and sometimes reload the save in multiplayer and hope it doesn't infinitely load.

2. Not sure if this is 100% a bug or just laziness, but the hide armor options do not show up for the other player until an instance change.

3. After a while of playing player 2's hide helmet option (and possibly all the hide armor options) would not save from instance to instance.

4. A dialogue bubble would occasionally appear in the middle of player 2's screen. Eventually, after an instance change, it would go away.

5. At some point in our playthrough, the preorder items in our inventory would dupe giving us an entirely new set (I think we had 3 of each item before we quit our playthrough)

6. After leaving colorado springs player 2 encountered a bug where randomly during any conversation the voice over would cut out during a line of dialogue. (This would persist throughout the entire conversation)

7. At some point to try and combat the infinite loading screen bug, we tried having player 2 host a game. He used his autosave (from our co-op game) and we loading into the proper instance, but our characters were the characters from his SINGLE PLAYER game

8. A very minor bug; player 2 initiated conversation with Flab The Inhaler and his first line of text did not show up for me(player1) and was read as: *Error* (StringTable: o2001_flabtheinhaler, StringID: 0, Language: English

9. Mid-combat when healing another character (with a medicpack), the character receiving the heals rolled a lucky critically resist (or something of the sorts) which completely resisted the effects of the heal. Additional info in case it is relevant: The character being healed had a poison status effect on them, and the character being healed was Lucia Wesson

10. After returning to the HQ from Colorado Springs and talking to Sergei Greatski in order to create new custom characters/respec, both our games crashed after creating new characters. Beyond this, we have no idea of the cause.

11. At some point during the game, the order of characters in the squad menu would not save for player 2.

12. Not sure if this is a bug, but every time we loaded up a save game the game would put us into the squad management menu.

13. Somewhere in the middle of the playthrough, this began to occur: one of player 2's characters had an assault rifle(slot 1) and an SMG(slot 2), after most fights his character would switch to slot 2 instead of staying at slot 1 by default.

14. Somewhat similar to #13, at some point in the playthrough, my two weapon slots on the HUD swapped, but did not switch slot positions in the inventory. I still by default used slot 1 so this didn't affect me except visually with the UI.

15. I believe this started early in the playthrough but every time a fight broke out, either player 2 or player 1's characters started with 0 AP. Sometimes this affected both of us during the same start of a fight.

16. During the beginning tutorial fight, player 2 was unable to do anything except end turn.

17. This persists in both single-player and co-op play. But during character creation (both at the beginning and through Sergei Greatski) if we chose a quirk, we were unable to revert our choice and choose "no quirk".

18. When arriving at The Bizarre we both somehow had two different conversations with Ananda Rabindranath at the same time. After leaving both conversations we were unable to speak to him again until leaving and rejoining the instance (At this point we noticed the following bug).

19. The final straw for us was when after completing most of the missions around The Bizarre our game essentially reset. All our priority missions and the continuation mission you get after going to The Garden of the Gods was gone, including the missions we had already completed. Going back to Colorado Springs we received the mission to either Save the family or convoy for the patriarch. After this, we returned to the HQ and had the initial meeting with The Patriarch again. After getting out of the convo we were stuck in the garage with all doors locked and unable to be lockpicked. Despite this, our mechanic was there doing work on nothing.

20. As a follow up to #19, (before #19 actually happened) at some point during the playthrough after loading a save in the garage, the game appeared to reset only for player 2, similarly to how it reset for both of us. Reloading the save seemed to fix this.

After experiencing all of these bugs we have decided to hold off on playing the game any further until some sort of patch/patches are released. Hope the devs can use this list to help them find these bugs.

[LeBIDJO]

Totally agree, COOP is totally unplayable right now and its state is unacceptable. To any people buying it for the coop - do not, it is completely broken right now. First we had to altf4 and go to another location via single player, quicksave and rehost the game (pretty much each single time). Then the entire quest log just got wiped out and we do not have a save prior to this ♥♥♥♥ happening. It was obviously not tested AT ALL and it is disgusting.

[Haron]

Yea, coop is unplayable right now, i hope devs will see this thread...

[Cameron Hall]

Basically the only reason I got the game was because of coop. Conveniently, between character creation, loading screens, messing around to try and fix the game saving wipe bug, and dealing with various coop-specific bugs we ended up going over the time limit to refund.

This is absolutely ridiculous.

[MicrobicWalnut]

Just had number 19 happen to us in our coop session. Totally game breaking. We have no motivation to play this again...

[Jitterz]

Yeah. This ♥♥♥♥ sucks. I'm so annoyed. I came into this expecting some sillyness or bugs but the amount of game breaking time wasting bugs AND THEIR rate of exposure is stupid. There's no way these super repeititve bugs didnt come up during playtesting... and it was still released at full price

[Vincent Mercier]

Thank you OP for such a comprehensive list of coop issues with this game. It certainly doesn't seem to have the QA needed to be priced at 90 AUD so we're going to pass on this game.

[Cassian]

I've had at least 5 of these happen so far. The quests resetting bug was the last straw =( Too many hours in to refund. Oof.

[PTrick]

Let me add a few more.

1) Stormer perk will not work for the non-host squad.
2) Battling Liberty is all kinds of buggy.

We beat her, arrested her, did some stuff around her, talked to her again, and it re-started the fight with her at full health and with some of the tricks that you can use to make the fight a bit easier no longer functional.

So we did it again, and it bugged ... again.

Coop is straight up broken. It's such a great game that's demolished by incredible amounts of buggy frustration.

Note: This is after patch 1.2 which fixed a gigantic number of bugs.

[DjohDjeen]

Was gonna buy this to play with a friend. Gonna pass I guess, thanks for the thread.

[mOnocle]

it's annoying i was to buy it with a friend too, I thought all game breaking bugs in coop was fixed....

[DeadPoolX]

Wow. I'm glad I saw this. My wife and I were really interested in getting this, but with the amount of co-op problems listed (and some of them seem quite severe), we'll have to pass.