Fable II Won't Ship With Online Co-op

[StompingFreak]

Fable II, scheduled to ship to retail stores on Oct. 21, will not include online co-op functionality right out of the box and will require a downloadable update afterward, according to a post on Microsoft's Gamerscore blog this afternoon.

Offline co-op will work on day one, but Lionhead and Microsoft Game Studios are still hammering out the kinks in the online co-op. According to the post, the game's developers are "looking to get the update out within the first week of launch in North America." As of today, there's no specific date set for the patch, and there's no word on when other regions might see the update.

Although you won't be able to join up with a friend right away online, the Gamerscore post says you'll "still see your friends as glowing orbs as well as chat and trade with them."

Fable II boasts an ambitious co-op mode that allows you and a friend to interact and affect one another's game worlds to a large degree. And although we've previewed the offline co-op, we haven't yet seen the online functionality in action.

We'll keep you posted as we hear more from Microsoft and Lionhead on the feature and when gamers can expect to see it.



Source (http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/914/914061p1.html)

Not the best news ive posted this year. i was looking forward to this feature.

[xI Reverend Ix]

The only thing that i want on this game is to be able to save 2 games at a time, because then i can have 2 games going 1 for me solo and 1 for a friend to play co-op in.

[Dark]

Not too bad then, you will want some time to yourself first anwyay, maybe complete the game once before going through it with a friend.
And Reverend, you will always be allowed more then 1 file they woulnd't ever limit you on xbox with a hardrive. Can you definately complete the whole game in co-op or are there bits you have to do in single player?

[StompingFreak]

Can you definately complete the whole game in co-op or are there bits you have to do in single player?

Form what lionhead have released..Yes the whole game from start to finish in co-op. Thats if they pull thier collective thumbs out of a body part and fix this issue.

[STO MoshPit]

Yeah the entire game is co-op, but you can also doing in 1p.
Which is something that not many good games have, which is why its a really good idea in my eyes.

I personally loved Fable. Hence why I am absolutely STOKED for Fable II coming out, it's seriously going to be a legend of a game! :)

[xI Reverend Ix]

Not too bad then, you will want some time to yourself first anwyay, maybe complete the game once before going through it with a friend.
And Reverend, you will always be allowed more then 1 file they woulnd't ever limit you on xbox with a hardrive. Can you definately complete the whole game in co-op or are there bits you have to do in single player?

I'm just thinking in terms of only being able to save 1 game at a time their is alot of games that only let you play 1 at a time and no multi-save thing.

i.e when you select new game it wipes saves and stuff like that.

[Terbinator]

its bin confirmed that co-op will ship on the games release