Hi I found no problems playing the coop mode apart from in some uploads and driving vehicles where the game jumped a lot. It would be nice a coop room as for multiplayer so as to find people to play with quickly in case you do not have friends at that time available
These are the things I noticed during my co-op run:
I was playing on an original Xbox One, while my friend using his Xbox Series S.
Pros:
- Sharing collectibles made it easy and fun to scour the map for everything.
- The amount of things my friend and I could pull off were hilarious and super enjoyable. Several of them physics based, like launching ourselves across the map with grapple-bashing.
- Bosses had a new type of excitement to them!
- Being Masterchief, killing Banished with his best friend Masterchief was phenomenal!!!
Cons/Bugs:
- Marines only get in host players vehicles.
- Full party death often times led to freezing on the load screen, and required a full restart of the game.
- On several occasions, the passenger in a vehicle would see extreme lag while driving. Clip: https://xboxclips.co/bamistro/8ea2a0f7-b4de-418f-b7ba-5de90a9a69b7
- At one point, my camera was disconnected from my body by several feet, not allowing me to see what I was holding, throwing, or shooting. Clip: https://xboxclips.co/bamistro/8c7e681e-d5c0-4f76-bff5-a8c009b5adcc
- The above glitch also led to this weird mongoose glitch: https://xboxclips.co/bamistro/4abe620b-b4b6-4498-b174-ae81fce417d7
- When one person was in a vehicle during the start of a cutscene, occasionally the vehicle would spawn on the player after the cutscene, killing them immediately.
- Occasionally, at separate times, my friend and I could not swap between our grenades or armor abilities.
- I can’t describe this one one, but here’s a clip of an elite glitching out: https://xboxclips.co/bamistro/362e42d1-f117-4ad9-a95a-5005545c093b
That’s about it from me! Overall Co-Op was a blast!!! Can’t wait to play it again once the full release is out!
But whats the point? FOBs dont get raided anyways. If you’re thinking each player can grab a group of marines too, there isn’t enough enemies in the open world to see it through.
I just overall want the ability to ping or spawn to specific players, thank you. More enemies is also nice as well as increase difficulty.
Coop:
Marines need to be updated so they will actually enter other players vehicles instead of only entering the hosts. Currently there is no way to do something as simple as attack a base with more than 1 warthog unless you have at least 3 players.
An option needs to be added to let non-host players choose to be their Multiplayer Spartans instead of Chief clones, as the clones just look ridiculous as the only option and it would give pve players an actual reason to use their MP spartans.
Vehicle handling/physics need a complete overhaul as they are bad enough in solo but in coop they flip/pop about like crazy.
Need to be able to join back a Coop session in progress if you crash/disconnect, instead of the entire lobby having to quit and restart just for 1 player
A revert to last checkpoint option needs to be added, at least in missions, as currently if you need to revert a checkpoint for any reason the only way is for all players to die, which may not always be possible if a player is out of grenades/explosives or is stuck somewhere.
Collision with teammates needs to be turned back on, not only does it take away from the fun but it also is frustrating when you phase through eachother and end up blowing eachother up. Collision also needs to be improved across the board as there is a lot of popping/warping when you touch objects/vehicles/enemies in online/coop play.
Mission replay:
Same as mentioned above, A revert to checkpoint option is a must need so you dont have to quit to menu and reload/blow yourself up if you need to revert for any reason.
Potentially an option to toggle skulls in the open world so that if you turn some on for replaying a mission you can keep them on/turn them off once you return to the open world, instead of having to quit to menu and toggle them there.