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- What’s available in multiplayer?
Exploring an open world game on your own is fun enough, but sometimes it can be a lot more fun to have a buddy around. Chaos loves company and happy Destroy All People 2: Rejected comes with some pretty unique multiplayer options that will keep you and your co-op partner entertained for hours.
From the jump, you can take a friend for the ride through the main story, or test your skills against each other in some fun PvP modes. For those watching the game for the first time, it’s an option that is sometimes overlooked, but worth a try if you have the chance. It allows you to master the game, try out different weapons and customize how you want your particular alien invader to look like. So to keep you up to date on the joys of co-op, here’s a handy guide to multiplayer in Destroy All Humans 2: Reprobed.
What’s available in multiplayer?
The great thing about multiplayer in Destroy All Humans 2: Reprobed is that there are multiple modes to try out. For starters, you and a friend can go through the entire story campaign from scratch, or mess around in the open world to your heart’s content for as long as you like. Plus, unlike other open world games of the era where co-op partners could only go so far apart before being teleported back, you can get pretty far here. Perfect for couples who love to search every inch of the map in search of secrets.
The other options are more PvP oriented, but they’re still an absolute blast to blow off some steam. There is the Duel mode where you and a friend fight to the death to hit a score counter by basically killing each other. You get 100 points for killing a player, as well as smaller handouts for taking out enemy NPCs if you go up against someone better at the game, so there’s some strategy in this relatively simple deathmatch mode. Finally there is PK Tennis. Here you and a friend play tennis with Psychokinesis, and the first to reach a certain score mark wins. It’s a very simple mode, but matches can be fast paced and it can get quite competitive.
How to start Multiplayer
If you’re looking to jump right into the multiplayer mayhem of DAH2: Reprobed, it couldn’t be easier to get started. To get started, from the main menu screen, select Multiplayer. From there, you will be presented with the three options mentioned earlier.
You just have to choose which one you want to play, the skin you want Crypto to wear and that’s about it as the game takes care of the rest. While it’s worth noting that it seems like there’s only a local split screen option, you can still invite someone to your game. For example, players playing on Steam can use the Steam Share option to invite a cooperative friend in need even if they don’t own the game. That’s pretty handy for those on a tight gaming budget or if you have a friend who wants to try the game for themselves before buying it.
Multiplayer Tips
The multiplayer in DAH2: Reprobed is fairly easy to get started. You just press the button, choose the mode, grab a friend and go. But there are a few more things worth knowing that might catch you up or generally help things run a little better.
To make the transition to multiplayer madness a little smoother, here are some helpful tips for anyone looking to play Destroy All Humans 2: Reprobed with a friend.
Be careful with your saved files
It’s a very simple tip, but if you’re starting a multiplayer campaign for the first time, be careful where you paste your save file. Unfortunately, if you have progressed through the main story in single player. So you can’t do a drop-in, drop-out session with your friend.
Instead, you have to start the game from scratch and load that save every time you want to play it in multiplayer. If you are not aware of this, it can easily happen that you accidentally delete your single player save when you think you are loading it for multiplayer. It’s a very minor nitpick, but it can be quite frustrating if you’ve already sunk a significant amount of time into the game. So try to remember which file is associated with which mode to avoid accidentally losing progress.
Watch out for the lag
It’s not something you come across very often, but every once in a while Destroy All Humans 2: Reprobed can get a little laggy. Especially later on when the levels get quite stretched out and the number of goons and ghouls thrown your way increases and scales up in power. Then you usually notice a drop in performance.
Throw in some of the more particle-heavy weapon attacks like the Ion Detonator’s massive blast field on top of that and the game can start to puff up a bit. Tweaking some settings can fix this when you’re on the PC. Thankfully, the console ports seem to handle it pretty well.
Stability improvements will no doubt change over time with patches. But for now keep in mind that the frame rate may drop a bit.
Friendly fire is a killer
Another little tip worth keeping in mind is that friendly fire is a thing and can often kill you, especially if you have a trigger-happy friend. Keeping an eye on where your shots are going is something highly recommended.
It’s not a problem you’ll run into with some of the smaller weapons like the Zap-O-Matic and the Disintegrator. But the big guns like the Meteor Strike and the Ion Detonator can cover a lot of ground and their splash damage can easily kill you or your partner. It’s easily done as most missions descend into absolute anarchy as the game throws wave after wave of heavily armed dudes and monsters in your direction and one stray shot is all it takes. So watch your fire.
Staying together gives more map awareness
One nice little feature of Reprobed over the original Destroy All Humans 2 is how it handles distance. Previously, older consoles came to overcome their limitations in multiplayer by using a tethering system, thankfully it seems to be gone here. For those unfamiliar, tethering basically involves teleporting players closer together once they go outside a certain range.
Here the map is completely open and you can use that to your advantage when flagging threats. Because when you run around, your field of consciousness is represented as a circle with hostels appearing as glowing dots inside. Keeping those two areas close together on the mini-map when you’re exploring actually doubles your range. It makes it easier to figure out where your next attack is coming from. It’s not a big exploit, but it’s quite useful if you get overrun.
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