The editor will not allow us that, I fear. There is no PvP mechanic or system atm and nothing which makes a "real" PvP mode feasible with the editor (rosters, ladders, official arenas, match-making, balancing, ....)

And not everyone will use Steam (and Steamworks) and - I say it again - many people don't use mods at all.

And it will be almost impossible to fight against "stranger teams" in 2v2 or 3v3 because there has to be complete data-match. So every player would have to have the exact same game version and exact the same mods installed. Wow! That won't work. That will NEVER work. The only way to do this properly to include it in the vanilla version. Then it's like: "oh, I want to play PvP now, I just disable all my mods and swuuush, I'm ready!" That would probably work.

I like all the modding, really, but modding AND co-op are two principles that don't really work together well. That might work if you only play with friends (then you can manually communicate until both have the exact same version) but it will NEVER work with strangers.

IMO the mods VS co-op problem is even one of the biggest challenges I see for Larian (besides the combat AI and balancing). I'm curious how that will work out....


WOOS