How Saints Row Co-Op Works, How It Affects Single-Player

Ever since Saints Row's humble beginnings, cooperative play has been a trademark constituent of the series. Running astir and completing missions with your friends helped region the bid from its open-world counterparts successful the games industry, and the diagnostic acceptable has lone grown much robust implicit the years.

"We had done multiplayer successful Saints Row 1, and we did multiplayer successful Saints Row 2 arsenic well, and that was, astir similar the tiniest kernel of what GTA Online came to beryllium – they conscionable knocked it retired of the parkland with thing that we attempted backmost then, of course," main originative serviceman astatine Volition Jim Boone says. "The large imaginativeness we had was, 'Can you ideate playing this crippled with a friend, done the full campaign? Every spot of it.' That took a tremendous effort. Those were the kinds of lessons we learned from Saints Row 1 wherever we were thinking, 'How tin we innovate and however tin we expand?'"

In the upcoming 2022 reboot of Saints Row, you tin enactment successful two-player, drop-in/drop-out online co-op arsenic you research the metropolis of Santo Ileso. When you articulation a session, each co-op subordinate looks precisely however you person them customized without limitations. Co-op play is untethered, meaning you tin research the metropolis autarkic of 1 another, but if 1 subordinate enters a mission, the different warps to them and joins the task astatine hand.

When a ngo starts, progression is tracked connected a per-player basis. Collectibles, customization, vehicles, and weapons each travel you backmost to your single-player game, but Volition didn't halt there. Any ngo progress you marque successful the co-op league is brought backmost into your single-player save. For example, if you're successful the early-game missions and you articulation a co-op spouse who is deeper successful the story, you won't person to replay immoderate missions you play to completion in the session. "The crippled volition retrieve you person played this late-game ngo erstwhile you people enactment your mode to it successful your ain campaign, and you volition not beryllium required to play that ngo again," says Boone.

On apical of modular play, Volition tells america you’re capable to prank your partner. We don’t yet cognize what that means, but the improvement squad is excited astir the feature. "It’s thing wholly antithetic that we’ve ne'er done earlier that players are going to perfectly love," says originative manager Brian Traficante. "When they get together, they get entree to the pranking system, and you tin conscionable fto your imaginativeness tally with 'What would you bash to prank your co-op player?'"

We don't precisely cognize what the pranking strategy is, but we're looking guardant to learning much astir Saints Row's co-op arsenic we get person to the game's February 25 merchandise date. For much connected Saints Row, beryllium definite to cheque retired our exclusive sum hub astatine the banner below.