>>723921584
I was playing co-op with a guy I've been doing co-op with for over a decade. Main issue is that everything in the game is designed for/balanced around PvP. Your powers suck and are super-samey with very few slots of which ones to have equipped, traversal is slow, the map is parceled into land holdings for territory control but it makes actually navigating a pain in the dick, and everything is time-gated to hell and back. Also you have to fuck with the server settings or your buildings rot in real time.
I have relatively little patience for isometric openworldsurvivalcraft and things of its ilk (bounced off Tribes of Midgard, bounced off Core Keeper, hell I bounced off Stardew Valley) but after only a few hours the only reason we had to keep playing was because there were numbers to make bigger and named bosses to fight. We switched to Abiotic Factor instead and are having a much better time, though that has its own frustrations.