Coop Campaign Experience (And whats your mate supposed to do in Mission3?)

[Dreepa 10]

When I bought OA I didnt touch the campaign, as I really wanted to play with my mates. So I entirely focused on multiplayer up until today (except the first mission of the campaign)

So today a friend and me started the coop campaign and it was rather boring.

In the first "real" mission (its the 2nd in the list), we didnt do anything. Our squads cleared the airport, then moved on to the other village. As I was explaining the controls to my friend, we slowly moved on. Upon arival, the objective was checked as done. We never fired a shot.

So we went on to the 2nd village. Again, upon arrival our squads did all the dirty work.

It was a weird feeling: I wanted to present the game to may mate (with all my enthusiasm) and all he did was move to A, to B and C: Done.

Okay, so we went on to the 3rd mission and since we wanted to play together, I took the driver seat of the abrams, and he took the gunner seat.

After 50% of the mission it just aborted without stating any reason. Just the end screen. So we thought it might have to do with the convoy being to stretched out (we left the Vee and the Avenger at the base).

Next try, we did exactly as ordered. I took the abram's commander seat and he took the avenger. After some fighting, for some reason, a bradley was not able to move anymore. After some warnings, that I am to far away from the convoy, the game ended.... again. We got a bit pissed. That bradley was obviously not able to follow up. What were we supposed to do??

So we made the next try, and this time we actually made it to the station. Thing is: I was the only one that was busy. His avenger had no work to do. I killed a dozen tanks and alot of infantry and had some fun, while he was watching. Ok there was one chopper coming, but it was instantly blown away by one of my AI bradleys.

So we reached the camp and he was like: Im gonna go make me some food, Im not needed here anyway.

So I get to that crash site, eliminate the resistance, activate the UAV and scout the 3 possible locations for POWs. There is a message incoming, telling me that we found the right camp and the I should stay where I am and wait for reinforcements to handle that. So I do. 10 seconds thereafter, I see the endscreen, and the mission is not complete. I cannot select the next mission in the campaign list and when selecting the old, I restart at my last savegame (the camp).

That was when I was finally so frustrated that I just said to myself: Fuck it, Im not gonna waste my time any longer, and went back to multiplayer coop. At least we had a bit fun with domination.

I wa sso looking forward to coop.... *sigh*

[turin turambar 0]

Wow, that sound pretty bad. I didn't have any problems playing in singleplayer, but wanted to try coop in a few days.

[whisper 0]

The 3 player's spots apart from server one in online campaign are assigned to different squad and do different jobs than the host squad.

Which means that, in mission 3, if the second spot isn't good for your mate, he may try the third or 4th player's spot. I think 3rd is special ops running around, who can go fast before your own convoy, do some recon for you and go get AT/AA/MG guns here and there around you.

4th spot is Apache pilot, who can pretty much single handedly finish the mission :)

I agree that spot #2 doesn't have much work to do.

Apart from spot #4, once he has lost all his teammates, he can take a spot in one of your vehicle. Friend of mine helped me keeping the convoy formation thight yesterday.

About the mission itself : at some point one of your Bradley has a mecanic issue, and the crew bails out to repair. Your character do the same. It lasts very short (during this time, you see the C130 going crashing above your head). Once the Brad is repaired, you can all jump back in and continue the mission.

The important point is that you cannot go too far from your Bradleys, all your team members must stay close to you.

If you want to play in the same group, the campaign isn't made for that