

Now these guys are just asking to be smashed. It takes a little bit of the friendly competition out of the co-op, but I didn’t mind.

Unlike prior games, all the drops are unique per player, so there’s no reason to make a mad dash for the rare item that just dropped while your friends get worked by elites. Once you’re in a game, you can click on any other player’s Banner to instantly teleport you to their location (negating the old Diablo 2 town portal trick), and you’re free to clickspam your way to victory.Īdventuring in co-op continues the Diablo tradition of increasing the difficulty of the enemies you fight, and usually, increases the quality/quantity of gold and loot that drops from enemies. If the whole “searching for a game to join” thing is too much for you, you can always open your own session up for public players to join as well. Players you meet in public games will show up as “recently met” in your social tab, so you can easily send friend requests. Unlike the quick join option, these will be level restricted, usually plus or minus five levels of your current character. If you’re new to, or otherwise don’t have any friends playing, you can join a public game, which will show you how many players have open games and what quests you have available to you. Other than not being able to access higher difficulties if you haven’t unlocked them, there are no restrictions to hopping into a game with friends, even if you’re a fresh character and they’re in the final act and level 30 (we confirmed this by sending my level 4 Monk to fight the final boss!). Once you create a character, a “Quick Join” section will be populated if you have friends in-game, and a single click is all it takes to connect you to them. Provided you already had some folks on your friends list, starting a co-op session of Diablo 3 might be the next easiest thing to pressing start on a second controller.
