Loot, XP and Karma are shared but not much else. Only the host gets credit for completing open world quests and events. This is almost a game breaking limitation of the co-op implementation. Quests, world status, most goals and unlocks are not shared to the co-op partner. So if you want any upper end skills you have to play more single player. About 3/4 of the end branch abilities in the skill tree can only be accessed after completing certain campaign missions. The skill tree is locked by single player campaign missions. This cancels anything your doing, resets the game world and teleports you back to the nearest town market. Technically this is the case - however because certain game mechanics aren't available in co-op your game actually reloads when your partner enters or leaves the game.

Drop-in/drop-out is questionable: typically this would imply someone be able to join your game after its already loaded - not having to join together in a lobby before starting the game. Still I found it annoying to have to play single player to access co-op. If you know the mechanics and don't get distracted you can get that far in under 90min. Both co-op players must complete the campaign up to I think the 7th mission. co-op only works for the open world stuff. Vehicles (except the glider) as designed with co-op in mind. It's better than the Far Cry 3 co-op campaign (although more buggy) - a step in the right direction at least. Open world co-op :-) - Not many open world co-op games around period. It has co-op :) - I play all games with my wife if it isn't co-op I don't buy it. The problem however is in how it works and how many bugs exist. The fact it actually has co-op and open world co-op to boot is great.

This is not a review of the game as a whole - just co-op.įirst off, its a bit of a mixed bag. I've been playing co-op with my wife for about a week now and figured I'd give a little review for anyone thinking of trying it out.

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