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I Seen how two people can play at same time but will game allow more then two people ?

like if there is 4 of us or 5 of us who want to play as a group ?

The main game is focused on 2 player co-op. Mods will be able to have 4 players, maybe 6; main game has 2 PCs and up to 2 henchmen / companions and 2 summons (plus the possibility of an NPC joining the party temporarily), but I don't recall if players can take over the 'summons' slots (don't think so). The engine itself supports more players, but the current UI, etc, does not expose that.

ahh was kind of hopping that the main game would open up as the game progressed more for more players latter on so that you could have friends and stuff.

Is there a way to make it so the joining players can control a henchmen during combat?

I don't understand why if you your allowed to have bigger groups like 4 or 5 or 6 why cant you start game with a bigger group ?

still wish they would fix it so me and my friend could char our own chars in game we start to gather..

I think the main reasons for not allowing more players is that first the narrative part and the games mechanics were made for a 2 main character (multiplying those interractions and adapting the story for more than 2 main character should be incredibly complex), and then because it should be also hard to scale the difficulty depending on how many players/main characters we have.
But of course you could use the toolset to create a 3+ multiplayer mod