Co Op Multiplayer?

[SpicyCrab]

Is there any kind of co op multiplayer?

[Jayshua_Lyn]

I want to know this too!

[Burzum]

No, there is currently no teams setting in the multiplayer. But according to the developers' roadmap, they're planning to add this (co-op multiplayer) in the Q2 of this year.

[Chester]

It doesn't make sense. We played multi with my buddy 2 months ago

[JimJamFlimFlam]

If you go to gameplay settings and scroll down then you can turn on co-op multiplayer. Lets you be in teams. I did it earlier today. (it does warn it's experimental)

[Star Paladin]

Yes, I have been playing coop with a friend for a couple months now (simu turns too).
Only huge problem is you can't watch your friends or team mates battles, so if ANYONE goes into a battle, entire game freezes for everyone until it's over. An archaic system.

If they are going to use graphics from the 80s, that does not mean they have to use multiplayer mechanics from the 80s too.

[SpicyCrab]

Yeah that sounds really annoying. Co-op Campaign would be my dream here but we gotta be able to BATTLE TOGETHER!!

[Kuikka]

I have been waiting how the devs will solve this issue before buying. Sim turns and some way to participate in battles would be welcome. Sharing troops or option to take control of the enemy (if rivalry is your thing) like in recent Total War games.

[Anders]

Originally posted by JimJamFlimFlam:

If you go to gameplay settings and scroll down then you can turn on co-op multiplayer. Lets you be in teams. I did it earlier today. (it does warn it's experimental)

JimJamFlimFlam (awesome name) says it correctly. There is a co-op experimental version online wich lets you duke it out together with your friends against the AI.

in Q2 we will have a focus period where that will get some more work done on it so that it can go from experimental to a more standard version.

[Challak]

+1 for Co-Op!

[RangerRobAZ]

It is odd to me that there was no announcement or other discussion regarding coop, however it does seem to be in the game now. I've played twice now with a friend of mine. You can have up to 8 total players I believe it is, and assign teams however you want. The players can be a mix of human/AI and you can choose the AI difficulty. I haven't tried more than 4 person 2v2 (2 human team vs 2 AI on team), but that worked.

I should note too that it works really well. Simultaneous turns are supported, we had no desyncs, and it has a lot of other very nice QoL things I actually haven't seen come together in multiplayer games often.

One thing I hope they add is the ability to watch other human fights (right now it locks down movement while the fight is going on). In this thread a dev responded saying they were working on that as well as a way to have you take control of enemy AI if you want.

[Sablestar]

I have played many games with my friends in teams against the AI... we are loving it. Also using large custom maps that i made. We roll a die to determine which map and each player start position. To get everyone into it at the beginning, we set the maps to simultaneous turns, 75% start strength for AI and slow strength growth for the AI. Still-- can usually expect AI to attack the home cities around turn 28-35, so I advise all playing to have some defense for that attack. Also, setup to only allow quick-battles against npcs (otherwise game can bog down), but to allow full battles against AI players or human players.

[Dtect]

So you can do coop battles but not coop campaign yet?

[Star Paladin]

You can play on the same team during a "map", but not a battle or campaign to my knowledge.

[Rafoca]

I hope you focus more on co-op. This kind of game is great with friends

[Frederiko]

Originally posted by Anders:

Originally posted by JimJamFlimFlam:

If you go to gameplay settings and scroll down then you can turn on co-op multiplayer. Lets you be in teams. I did it earlier today. (it does warn it's experimental)

JimJamFlimFlam (awesome name) says it correctly. There is a co-op experimental version online wich lets you duke it out together with your friends against the AI.

in Q2 we will have a focus period where that will get some more work done on it so that it can go from experimental to a more standard version.

Unfortunately the game launched the 1.0 version without the "watch other players fight" feature.

It's sad because for multiplayer, the fights are a very big part of the fun.
So if you can't even watch a friend fight, or take control of at least one of it's unit, I can think it's inviable to hope for a "battle together" option in the future. :( Any updates into that?