Online Coop for the next game please :D

[Einherjer]

I have played Vikings and Rome so far and I absolutely loved these two titles. One of the best RPGs out there. Great story and great decision making. An online coop for at least two player would be the absolute banger, like Devinity, Baldurs Gate 3 or Wastland 3 have done it. RPGs in coop multiplayer are always super fun and especially when it's a great game like you Expedition series :D.

[Golden Boy]

please no

[Einherjer]

Originally posted by Golden Boy:

please no

What? Why no? It's just an addition. It will not change the single player experience at all. In Coop you just split up the group in fights. In dialouges you just take over the decision making of the characters you have control of (option1) or you just decide together for the main character (option2). Everything else is the same. You could immidiately create a coop mode for Rome without changing anything in that game. There is no reason I can think of why a multiplayer coop is bad.

[Golden Boy]

Originally posted by Einherjer:

Originally posted by Golden Boy:

please no

What? Why no? It's just an addition. It will not change the single player experience at all. In Coop you just split up the group in fights. In dialouges you just take over the decision making of the characters you have control of (option1) or you just decide together for the main character (option2). Everything else is the same. You could immidiately create a coop mode for Rome without changing anything in that game. There is no reason I can think of why a multiplayer coop is bad.

too much resources would be put into this

[Einherjer]

Originally posted by Golden Boy:

Originally posted by Einherjer:

What? Why no? It's just an addition. It will not change the single player experience at all. In Coop you just split up the group in fights. In dialouges you just take over the decision making of the characters you have control of (option1) or you just decide together for the main character (option2). Everything else is the same. You could immidiately create a coop mode for Rome without changing anything in that game. There is no reason I can think of why a multiplayer coop is bad.

too much resources would be put into this

Can't imagine why. When single and multiplayer run are the exact same except of splitting the fighting group in half and have lets say a voting system for the dialouges (not even that you really need), I really doubt that would cost a great amount of time and resources to implement. But maybe you are right ... I am not a developer. We will see if the next Expedition has coop.

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Originally posted by Golden Boy:

please no

[parent child bowl]

Bold of you to assume that there will be a next (Expeditions) game.

[Anthem of Grimm]

Studio was closed.

[Einherjer]

Originally posted by Anthem of Grimm:

Studio was closed.

♥♥♥♥... did not know that. Well, that makes my post obsolete...

[DCid]

THQ Nordic is owned by Embracer. They're currently on the brink of bankruptcy and shutting down studios left and right.

Even Gearbox is in danger of being shutdown. Most of their studios are being laid off completely.

[Einherjer]

Originally posted by DCid:

THQ Nordic is owned by Embracer. They're currently on the brink of bankruptcy and shutting down studios left and right.

Even Gearbox is in danger of being shutdown. Most of their studios are being laid off completely.

Well ... deserved I think. They had such great titles but ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up so many times in the past ... they ruined guild 3 for example...

[Golden Boy]

Originally posted by Einherjer:

Originally posted by DCid:

THQ Nordic is owned by Embracer. They're currently on the brink of bankruptcy and shutting down studios left and right.

Even Gearbox is in danger of being shutdown. Most of their studios are being laid off completely.

Well ... deserved I think. They had such great titles but ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up so many times in the past ... they ruined guild 3 for example...

Nobody deserves to lose his job just because some suit made some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ decisions.

Jeez.

[Einherjer]

Originally posted by Golden Boy:

Originally posted by Einherjer:

Well ... deserved I think. They had such great titles but ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up so many times in the past ... they ruined guild 3 for example...

Nobody deserves to lose his job just because some suit made some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ decisions.

Jeez.

Yeah well, that's also true. Let's hope they will find better employers who treat their employees and costumers with respect ... even when the gaming industry is not like that atm. Lets hope that the industry acts more like the Larian Studios or CD Project Red for example in the future.

[Golden Boy]

Originally posted by Einherjer:

Originally posted by Golden Boy:

Nobody deserves to lose his job just because some suit made some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ decisions.

Jeez.

Yeah well, that's also true. Let's hope they will find better employers who treat their employees and costumers with respect ... even when the gaming industry is not like that atm. Lets hope that the industry acts more like the Larian Studios or CD Project Red for example in the future.

a man can only dream..

[Fasih]

Implementing bare-bones coop should be relatively simple but there are other things to consider. In a lot of cases that would break the quest logic. But more importantly if we ever implement coop into a future game we would not want it to be bare-bones. The second player should not simply be backseat player. Coop should be fun.

[Einherjer]

Originally posted by Fasih:

Implementing bare-bones coop should be relatively simple but there are other things to consider. In a lot of cases that would break the quest logic. But more importantly if we ever implement coop into a future game we would not want it to be bare-bones. The second player should not simply be backseat player. Coop should be fun.

Okay. Non existent developer answers me, I am confused :D.
Well you are right that it would be way more fun if both players would have their own character with their own decision. Solution would be to have two main characters from the beginning which you play also in singleplayer. But I can tell you, if you would just implement coop into rome with split combat group (every player skills his characters and has control over them in battle) and a voting system for the dialouges it would be great too. Other games do it like that, I've played a few of them in coop and it was always fun as hell (example: Wasteland 3).

But at this point of information about your company and so on it would be just great to have a future expedition game at all (with or without coop)