How to play co-op in Wild Hearts – Explained

Wild Hearts is riffing on the tried-and-tested Monster Hunter format, with big weapons, and even bigger monsters. But it’s also doing a lot of its own stuff too, with the addition of the Karakuri building systems. There are also things that it has taken from Monster Hunter and tweaked slightly to suit the game that Omega Force is making. One of these tweaks is to the co-op system. If you’re wondering how to do co-op, or if it’s seamless (or any other questions you may have), here is our guide on how to play co-op in Wild Hearts — and more explained.

How to play co-op in Wild Hearts

Co-op is one of the features in Wild Hearts, and it doesn’t take all too long to unlock. After you play the introduction of the game, you’ve unlocked co-op. This can take up to about an hour depending on how much you want to customize your appearance in the character creator. After you reach the first campfire with Natsume, you can activate co-op from there.

How to start co-op

Starting co-op in Wild Hearts is relatively easy. All you need to do is open the campfire menu, scroll to ‘Play online,’ then create a session. You can invite some buds to play with you via the communication portion of the inventory/map menu. You can also just search for open sessions in the campfire menu if you don’t have any friends playing the game.

There’s also the job joining mechanic you can access from the Hunter’s Gates. These are scattered across the lands, and allow you to join another random player’s hunt.

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Is co-op in Wild Hearts seamless?

The answer to this question is a resounding yes. Once you join your friend’s co-op session, or they join yours, you are there until you want to disband. You won’t disconnect between hunts or when entering different zones; it’s as seamless as seamless gets. It also saves story progress for both players as long as they’re in the same place in the story. So you can play the entire game together if that is your wish.

The story progress saving is in accordance with the host’s save file. Therefore, make sure that, if you’re not the host, you’re in the same spot in the story– otherwise progress won’t be shared.

Does co-op change the difficulty?

Co-op in Wild Hearts does indeed change the difficulty. The difficulty scales up depending on how many players you have in your game at any point. This means the monster’s health increases the more players are in your game. Monster health scaling isn’t bad news, however, because you can revive your fallen comrades in co-op. This feature means that instead of perishing three times and it’s over, which is still the case if you fully perish, you can fall as many times as you please as long as you can be revived. This feature actually makes difficult fights in Wild Hearts a lot easier due to the nature of having more lives to do it.