A second assassin joins Dishonored 2 in an early co-op beta

Image credit: Dishonored 2 COOP mod by ZikQ via Nexus Mods.

Karnaca was designed around one assassin slipping through its streets. ZikQ's early Dishonored 2 co-op beta asks what happens when a friend joins the intrusion, allowing one player to host a world while a second connects to explore alongside them.

This is a test build with substantial limitations, not a seamless two-player campaign. The host handles conversations, cutscenes, scripted events and level transitions, while the developer warns about desynchronization, missing animations and crashes. Both players need the mod and Steam version 1.77.9, plus a shared Radmin VPN or Hamachi network. The promise is enticing, but for now the experiment is as much about finding what breaks as playing together.