Trial issues for Couch Co-op - First Ever Forum Post!

First time ever making a forum post..

Me and my missus play POE2 couch Co-op, it has been insanely fun, on the normal PS5.

we are running into a few issues which we have our own fixes for,

1. Trial Of Sekhemas - we are facing lots of issues with not being able select things - such as buying things from a merchant, even though it could be player 1's trial, it only wants player 2 to select things from the menu's (which it then states they are not the trial owner). If that makes sense...

2. Trial Of Sekhemas - HUGE ISSUE - Escape trials, upon getting all 8 death crystals, the timer still counts down, it reaches zero, and we are forced to close the game, we cannot get any ascendency points due to this bug, BUT we found a work around, DO NOT USE RELICS - for some reason the Relics prevent alot of bugs, we can do the trial but damn its hard, we cant finish it without relics... so yeah. We have lost so many Djinn Baryas its not even funny hahahaha.

3. Trial of Chaos, during the section where you have to use switches to move huge sections of walls, we keep getting maps that once we use the switch we get launched or pushed and since we are both tethered to each other we get stuck and die (might of been our fault on this one, unsure).

4. Constant Crashing during Atlas Maps - Whenever one of us Dies during a map, the game will now black screen, or crash, every time we send a report. Its a bit frustrating as when there is like one boss to go, and one of us dies, thats it, no more map aha.

5. Feedback, This is the most fun ive had gaming in a long time, i dont mean to complain or make issues about this stuff, but it is effecting my experience, dont get my wrong this is one of the most fun games i have ever played, and the games still in really early access! you have all done a wonderful job. Alot of negativity on the forum sadly. You all do an amazing job.

I've heard about issue 2 and 4 (which I reported). The escape trial only works normally, if player two activates Djinn Barya. Still however you must avoid hourglass trial, because door don't want to be opened either for player one or player two.

About issue 4 (which I also reported), I also meet it (and in most cases only because player two dies). Only workaround is use portal and return to town, but this means, that you'll never return back (and yeah, this means using again waystone), because one of players died. If crash happen while both players was still alive (which happened to me once), then you'll be able to return to map.

Agree with OP.

We ended up doing trials in single player :'(

Also, can confirm blackscreen in maps on death.