The game is fine for the most part, until you play co-op.

Disconnection issues, crashes, tools not working, players appearing frozen in one spot... The works. Whenever you go to restart the game to fix these issues, there is no restart option. You have two options: quit the entire game, or enter a new map and then go back to the map you were working on. If you choose the latter option, it can’t be a map within the same category, or it overrides the progress of the map you’re trying to restart. To exacerbate the issue, when people try to rejoin your game, they have to download the dirt progress all over again, which downloads kilobytes at a time... With a chance to disconnect before you’ve fully downloaded. This whole process repeated itself over and over when trying to play with friends. We all had this issue on each of our ends. So either the game has issues with co-op, or somehow everyone’s internet connections suddenly decided to act up at the same time when we started playing this game, despite having a perfectly fine ‘Left4Dead 2’ session beforehand.

To add to the co-op issues, your progress towards better tools is only made when you’re the host, making everyone except the host lag behind in terms of progression. So while you could replay the same maps over and over for each individual friend, I find this to be a ridiculous ask.

In short, co-op feels like an after-thought, rather than a feature the developers expect people to play. I recommend ‘Viscera Cleanup Detail’ instead, unless you plan on playing this game solo, then I recommend getting it on sale.

The game is fine for the most part, until you play co-op. Disconnection issues, crashes, tools not working, players appearing frozen in one spot... The works. Whenever you go to restart the game to fix these issues, there is no restart option. You have two options: quit the entire game, or enter a new map and then go back to the map you were working on. If you choose the latter option, it can’t be a map within the same category, or it overrides the progress of the map you’re trying to restart. To exacerbate the issue, when people try to rejoin your game, they have to download the dirt progress all over again, which downloads kilobytes at a time... With a chance to disconnect before you’ve fully downloaded. This whole process repeated itself over and over when trying to play with friends. We all had this issue on each of our ends. So either the game has issues with co-op, or somehow everyone’s internet connections suddenly decided to act up at the same time when we started playing this game, despite having a perfectly fine ‘Left4Dead 2’ session beforehand. To add to the co-op issues, your progress towards better tools is only made when you’re the host, making everyone except the host lag behind in terms of progression. So while you could replay the same maps over and over for each individual friend, I find this to be a ridiculous ask. In short, co-op feels like an after-thought, rather than a feature the developers expect people to play. I recommend ‘Viscera Cleanup Detail’ instead, unless you plan on playing this game solo, then I recommend getting it on sale.