News Dead Island 2 Multiplayer: How to Unlock Co-Op Play Everyone is welcome to visit Hell-A with their friends, but not every friend is invited. Here's how to access Dead Island Dead Island 2 supports co-op for up to three players at a time, which can be an unpleasant surprise for all fans of a four-player co-op. Also, you can still go through the whole game together without any problems. When you first gain control of your character in Dead Island 2, you’ll awaken in the wreckage of a crashed plane. From there you’ll move about the wreck in an obstacle course tutorial of sorts Jumping into a multiplayer game in Dead Island 2 is easy enough. First things first, all those hoping to join will need to have completed the games’ prologue first. This means starting a new game and going about things solo until the co-op pop up appears after leaving Emma Jaunt’s mansion to head to the Halperin Hotel. In other words, fans can expect a new antagonist and new deadly faction, with the latter hopefully adding more options to Dead Island 2's gameplay. As a DLC, fans can also expect new weapons and the like, but it feels unlikely to introduce a new character to play as in Dead Island 2. In Dead Island 2, all players in a session have the game’s save state. So, apart from the coop mode, each participant in the game keeps their inventory, story progress, and skills. In most other games, such as Sons of The Forest, only the original host has access to the shared save state. Dead Island 2 (local) Multiplayer? I live with my girlfried, both PCs in the same network. Is there any ingame-option or mod that enables LAN-Coop? (Or ZeroTier/Hamachi with other friends) SOLVED! There is an online-fix. Local coop does not work but playing online via epic games servers does work. Playing Co-Op. Once you have progressed far enough to be able to play co-op, whenever you start a "session", you will be given the choice of what kind of session you want to play in. You options Fast-traveling isn't the only feature Dead Island 2 blocks behind progress. In fact, unlocking co-op in Dead Island 2 also requires players to progress to a certain point in the main storyline. Yes, sadly. NanjeiJin • 11 yr. ago. Same thing happened to me. I think it may be a steam/pc issue. If I remember correctly, the first dead island had similar issues upon release. You'd expect them to be better the second time around, but guess not. Tieryal • 11 yr. ago. Same problem. We opened all ports usually required by steam. BkKzVR9.