Larian Studios Forums Divinity - Original Sin Divinity - Original Sin - General Yet another multiplayer question

There are many questions about this already however, they mostly are about 4 people coop or asking for D:OS to be playable as a MMO.

My question is about 2 player coop.
My GF and i want to play this game together right from the start and all the way. But how would that work out?
Letｴs say i host the game. So upon creating our characters we have a total of 4 of which 2x2 are the same person? Seems i have obviously flawed thinking there.
Is it possible to create just 1 character each and then start the game together?
Is it even possible to play the game like that or is it just a "drop in, play along a bit and mind your own stuff later anyway" game?

Thanks for replying,

AK.

You are each starting with just one character - there are only two source hunters at the beginning. Additionally, during your adventure you can find additional companions at certain places in the game and hire them. You do not create companions, they are predefined characters when you meet them with a predefined personality and abilities (although you can decide their future progression when companions level up).

If you start a multiplayer game, and your girlfriend joins in the character creation screen, you can each customize your own character. From character creation you can use the Steam overlay to send an invitation, or (depending on your multiplayer settings) you girlfriend can just use the Join option from the main menu.

Characters stay with the save, on the host's system. You can not import or export characters from one game into a different one.

Best way to look at it is this Ammokk:

One person owns everything. They own the game, they can remove the other person any time they fancy... it's identical to owning the sega genesis/megadrive and being player ONE.

The other person comes into your game at any point, and leaves at any point too. They can join in at character creation and make one of the two starters (you only ever start with 2 chars, you don't make your own pair of two so you never begin with 4).

While they control the character you have no access to it. You can send stuff to it, but you can't take stuff from it. On top of this, the party hires 2 henchies that you can share (you can reassign them willy nilly, meaning if you're busy stealing things, you can give both to the other person to fight with).

When you save you save the game, you don't save the participants. If the person is still with you when you load it up (let's say you saved before a dialogue choice you didn't like) then things wont change. But if you start it up the next day they'll simply rejoin your game and you can continue on your merry way.

On top of this, you could make a new game, play a bit, hit level 4 and then they could join you (say you had the day off, they were working) and take over a character.

So to be clear - it's a "drop in, play a bit, leave if they fancy" game... unless you remember you have free will, and you can simply wait to play the save just with them!!! (tip: if you play more than them, remember after each session to save it to a proper save slot, as the quicksave/autosaves will overwrite eventually.)

Thanks for the replies.

Seems like itｴs exactly what we were looking for and we are going to have lots of fun playing the game.