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It's not a linear story as I understand it, but Deep Rock Galactic is supposed to be pretty good
Coop is coming to Halo Infinite eventually. There is a split screen in the game already that modders have managed to get into but it's buggy.
I remember getting high and playing Combat Evolved and 2 coop with my friends back in the stone age, good times
The whole Halo series is available on PC as the Master Chief Collection and has coop throughout.
How is the online version of coop? Last I tried to play reach with an american friend and it had terrible latency problems that never existed in the original.
I've never had problems, but I've mostly played people in the same region as me.
Wolfenstein Youngblood is supposed to be pretty good, you get to kill Nazis so that's fun. I've also heard it's politics outside of that are trash though.
I just remembered Back4Blood is also very fun.
Both games are on gamepass
It's a modern day Left4Dead, pretty sure it's just a bunch of those devs too.
I played a bunch of it with 3 of my buddies and it's a blast.
Eh, I'll give it a bad review;
It feels like left4dead, except the level design and enemy design isn't as good.
Sure, it has better graphics, and its card system that's has possibilities, but tbh I feel like the cards as implemented are pretty pointless.
I mean, if you're a huge L4D fan, you'll probably like it, but as someone who only likes L4D, I actually found it a downgrade in fun, just due to levels and enemies being less tight and balanced.
The devs have also expressed vocal anti-modding sentiment, which really cuts into the future replayability.
The bad reviews are likely from a recent patch which makes the game run bad for many people. I ran it fine last night.
Literally the only thing I've heard about Youngblood's gameplay is that all the enemies are bullet sponges, which sounds pretty bad tbh
Destiny (It's F2P but you'll likely want to buy at least some of the Xpacs. The new player experience is very bad so you'll want to find friends to play with or spend a lot of time on youtube and /r/Destinythegame)
Insurgency (Play as a Kurdish soldier fighting Isis!, but no story mode)
You can play Mechwarrior 5's campaign in coop with up to four mechwarriors. It's pretty cool. You have to manage your little mercenary company, bid on contracts, maintain, repair, and upgrade your mechs, and make a living in the sandbox between story missions.
Warframe is an extremely deep, fairly grindy RPG/Shooter with coop all the way through. It's got a great story that just had a huge, important update. There is a lot of grind but you can Pay2Progress if you want to, or just embrace the grind. The game features ridiculously deep customization - Your warframe levels up, your guns level up, the mods you stick in your warframe and gun level up, your dog levels up, your spaceship levels up. If you like the idea of being a hyperkinetic space ninja and grinding out upgrades to hyper-specialize your build, then run around annihilating space Nazi clones and megacorporate goons, Warframe is a good bet.
Generation Zero is a weird entry because it does sorta have a story but the story is mostly 'Go to this place, turn on the power supply, read the text and listen to the radio message, go to the next place". It is very challenging, you really need to embrace the "Guerilla warfare" of it and only fight when you need to or when you have a huge advantage. But it is fun, and it is coop.
Journey to the Savage Planet is a hybrid FPS/Metroidvania game. You explore, fight monsters, find upgrades that let you get past obstacles, and then explore more. It's very colorful and goofy, and it has coop.
Zombie Army Trilogy and Nazi Zombie Army are coop games where Hitler has done a necromancy and your group of 1-4 heroes (And you can play as Soviets) have to sniper and shoot and ambush their way through Nazi Zombie Germany to save the world from Nazi Zombies. Did I mention you're shooting Nazi Zombies?
Space Hulk: Deathwing is a SPESSS MAHRRRNNNES game where you shoot aliens FOR THE EMPRAH in giant baroque space ship cathedrals. It's a 1-4 player coop based on the old Warhammer 40k board game Space Hulk. Your team of four space marines in terminator power armor have to fight through hordes of Tyranids to complete various objectives. It was panned on release but they released an update that fixed a lot of the problems. Good if you're a WH40k nerd and want to slaughter Nids with your buddies
Dying Light is the worlds definitive Zombie Apocalypse Parkour game, with an expansive story, weapon crafting, lots of scary zombies, and a pretty extensive story that you can play in Coop. Notable because your character has incredible mobility in the urban environment due to various parkour skills.
PayDay 2 sort of has a story, I think. It's a game about killing loads of cops and also robbing banks
Earth Defense Force is 3rd person, but does feature an extensive campaign. It's a homage to monster and aliens from B-movie science fiction, kaiju, and mecha movies. Your Earth Defense Force soldiers fight GIANT INSECTS and other threats using mech suits, dodge rolling, tanks, machine guns, and jetpacks with suspiciously short skirts and plasma pigtails. It's goofy fun and has coop.
EYE Divine Cybermancy is a very old, very weird coop FPS game based on the Halflife 2 engine and heavily inspired by WH40k. On the plus side is has extremely deep character customization, good gunplay, and a cool baroque cyberpunk aesthetic. On the downside the game is very, very weird. The engine and graphics are very dated at this point. The character customization is poorly documented and explained, and it's badly translated from French, which either increases the mystique or makes it annoying depending on your taste. Get it if you like Half Life 2 era FPS games, 40k, and obscure RPG games. Get it if the idea of being a cyberpunk ninja assassin or a power armor clad psychic warmage appeals to you. Do not get it if you do not have a high tolerance for weird, finnicky old games.
Shadow Warrior II is a looter shooter with a lot of character customization and a story that you can play in Coop.
Portal II isn't really an FPS because you don't shoot anyone, but it is a very cool coop puzzle experience.
Also EYE has up to 32 player co-op which is just fucking stupid - I mean incredible
Any love for Borderlands 2 or 3? They're both on sale on Steam at the moment. Think cel-shaded/cartoony FPS with Diablo-esque loot mechanics.
IIRC, their levelling systems made co-op very annoying, as it's unlikely both you and your friend will stay at more or less the same level/progression. Maybe by the third they introduced at least some level scaling so you could reasonably play together without needing to make sure no one plays even a single minute without the other person?
Not story based really but Destiny 2 is great if you have friends to play with.
You definitely want friends to play with. The new player experience is bad to non-existant so you really want to find help when you're getting started. Check out /r/Destinythegame and be liberal in using online guides. PM me if you have questions.
I used to be a super hardcore destiny 1 player, but honestly the game was like an abusive relationship.
Is it better now that they were able to ditch their publisher and retain development?
Uhh...
No, it's still a super grindy waste of time skinner box.
The story is a lot better though. We just had a year long arc where the Guardians find common ground with the Fallen and Cabal against the Vex and Hive.
And the gameplay has improved. This year's seasonal events have been really cool, with a lot more depth, variety, and story integration than previous years.
So if you're willing to put up with the MMO skinner box grind it's improved a lot. If not, stay away!
I'd say check out GOG as there's a lot of old co-op shooters out there that are linear. If you don't want to pay for anything you could pirate and tinker with DOSBOX.
Are you the same WammaWink that posted this one? https://hexbear.net/post/161643
It's not linear, but I have a hard time believing there will ever be a co-op shooter as good as Mass Effect 3's multiplayer
One hundred percent agree. I haven't checked but they didn't bring the servers back up for the re-release did they?
You can't play MP in the re-release, but the original version's servers never went down. It's still reasonably active (at least on PC), and there's even a decent modding community because Bioware stopped enforcing any kind of anti-cheat
Insurgency Sandstorm has pretty decent co-op, but it's not story based other than the setting is vaguely the Syrian civil war. You can play as a YPJ cutie.
The Halo games and Remnant from the ashes, but it's third person. Swat 4 isn't exactly linear but it's really good.
