Players will get to play through the main campaign as Colt, as he hunts down his targets, or they can choose to step into the shoes of Julianna to hunt down other players (who are playing at Colt). Julianna is controlled by another player who must hunt down Colt and kill him, keeping him trapped in the time loop. The answer to the question, “Does Deathloop have online multiplayer?” is yes! Deathloop does feature online multiplayer, specifically, a PVP element that pits the player against Julianna, another assassin. While most of the trailers for the game focus on Colt and his mission, there are a couple of indications that lead players to question the existence of multiplayer. So maybe we're trying to tell people to take it slowly and considerate.Deathloop is Arkane Studios’ latest title, and players are wondering about the online component, specifically, whether Deathloop has multiplayer. Okay, we give you a lot of points for staying alive for ten minutes. Especially because, again, we made something with very little hard, enforced rules. But, you know, I think it's nice that the system is open for people to make, I don't know, fight clubs or whatever, and have this kind of etiquette. I know how my ideal Julianna plays in front of me. “I'm curious to see the emergent behaviors there,” Bakaba says. The hope is that, much like FromSoftware games, players will build their own etiquette through the game’s mechanics. There are some rules, but the rules are flexible enough to allow for plenty of player expression and surprising interactions. The goal is to give players enough freedom so the game can produce these water cooler moments like Bakaba’s own anecdote about Bloodborne. Why not kill NPCs? Why not help Colt kill the Visionaries? Why not give them your weapon? You can drop your weapons to take another one, so why not just drop a weapon in front of Colt and then disappear?” So it's very, very little compromise that we've done on player freedom. And in some cases where there is something that is very important for Colt's mission and Julianna could grief by just throwing it into the icy water, we just made that non-interactive. She has read everything that is on the island already so we just remove those interactions. The one kind of sacrifice we made - which I think is not unbelievable considering Julianna's character - is that she cannot do things like, well, first of all, we didn't want players to spoil themselves some story content, so you cannot read the notes. So yeah, they will fight back against Julianna if she starts killing them, but sometimes you really, really need that shotgun. She’s part of the Visionaries, but no one wants to get killed for no reason. “The second time they might go, ‘We are going to fuck you up, Julianna’. “NPCs will react the first time like maybe it's an accident,” Bakaba explains. While they are friendly to Julianna initially, they will retaliate if a Julianna player keeps killing them. This extends to the enemy NPCs Colt fights against. When playing as Julianna, you can still interact with most of the world. I had no idea what she was doing until I got to the and then they disappeared.” And each time I would go in the wrong direction, she would shoot me, which was hilarious, like, 'Hey, stay on track'. So she slowly brought me towards the bell ringer and then she disappeared. And each time they pulled me towards this bell ringer NPC - you cannot be invaded anymore if you kill them. “I actually have a nice Bloodborne story about someone who just crushed me twice and then invaded me a third time, in the same area. But yeah, why not?” Bakaba replies when I ask him if you can play Deathloop in co-op by using the invasion mechanic. “It's kind of a counterintuitive way to go about it. Since you can choose to invade your friends’ games, you can even lend a friend a helping hand and play Deathloop like a co-op game. It’s not all about harassing Colt, either.
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