Hogwarts Legacy can now also be played in co-op – thanks to a new multiplayer mod.
If you can accuse the world of Hogwarts Legacy of one thing, it’s certainly that the NPCs sometimes seem a little lifeless. Except for a few scripted actions, the other magic students do not follow a real daily routine and seem a bit like zombies.
The team behind the multiplayer mod Skyrim Together, with which you can roam Bethesda’s role-playing game together in co-op multiplayer, wants to remedy this: Just one week after the start of Early Access, the team can show a working multiplayer mod with which Up to eight players can explore the magic school at the same time.
You can watch a first video of what this looks like in action here:
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Eight player co-op in the works
When the mod called HogWarp
it is currently still an early prototype – more than walking around together should not be possible. Doing tasks together and playing through the story is currently not possible and whether it will ever work is still in the stars.
Talking to the site PCGamer The modder Yamashi from the Together team reveals that the declared goal of the project is for people to be able to enjoy the game together at some point and possibly even expand it with their own mods at some point.
How did that work out so quickly? According to Yamashi, he started work on the project well before its release by launching a similar multiplayer mod for the cat adventure Stray – both games are based on Unreal Engine 4.27.2, so the advances quickly carried over into Hogwarts Legacy could become.
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Hogwarts Legacy – Test video for the open world game in the Potter universe
So you can play now: If you absolutely want to try the prototype of the mod yourself, you have to pay the developer for it Patreon support – for 10 dollars a month you get access.
But if you can be patient, the mod will soon be available for free. According to the project manager, a publicly accessible version is to be published this month, which will then be available to everyone free of charge.
Hogwarts Legacy in multiplayer – do you fancy it? What’s the first thing you would do? Tell us in the comments!
