How to play Where Winds Meet multiplayer with friends

Playing Where Winds Meet online with friends mean you can complete quests and tackle bosses in co-op with a team, but not everything is available in multiplayer. This sprawling open-world Wuxia RPG can be played entirely solo but, like most games, everything's more fun when you get other people involved. So if you want to do just that, here's how.

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How to Unlock Co-Op in Where Winds Meet

Where Winds Meet multiplayer is unlocked after reaching level 10. You should easily reach that after completing a few main quests, but you can speed things up by accepting side quests and defeating enemies in the early regions of the game.

Once you've unlocked multiplayer you can either enter Online Mode to give the game an MMO feel, or invite friends to a private squad to complete challenges and quests. To do so, select the Mode Switch button at the top left of the screen. The icon looks like a man wearing a pointy hat.

In Online Mode, you'll see other players moving throughout the open world. You can team up with them and take on quests together, or just hang out in social spaces. Some things (like main story quests) can only be completed in Solo Mode, but you can swap between the two at any time.

How to Invite Friends in Where Winds Meet

Despite the name, Solo Mode also allows you to invite friends for co-op exploration and questing - you just won't see random players out in the open world. To invite your friends, select the Mode Switch button and then choose Solo/Co-Op Mode in the bottom right corner.

This will bring you to a list of active co-op lobbies you can join. To add your friends to a session, choose the Invite Visitors button in the bottom-right corner. You can invite them directly through Steam or PSN, or you can generate a co-op code to share with cross-platform players. You can have a maximum of five players in a session including yourself.

Where Winds Meet Co-Op Restrictions

Where Winds Meet lets you do mostly everything in co-op, but there are a few key restrictions.

The most important difference between solo and co-op play is story missions, which can only be completed in a solo session. You can't do story missions with your friends in Where Winds Meet, sadly.

However, every other open-world activity - including side quests, dungeons, and exploration - can be completed in co-op. Most of the important stuff is found on the Wandering Paths menu, giving you easy access to bosses, trials, and other tasks.

The one drawback with co-op is the lack of level scaling - the difficulty is balanced around the host of a session. So you'll have a hard time if you're joining a high-level player with better equipment and skills. But, if you're a low level host, you can invite high-level friends to help you out with challenging bosses so you can kickstart the levelling process.

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