Holy hell, playing with friends is the worst possible thing you could ever try and do with this game.

We spend a solid 1-2 hours just navigating bug after bug to try and even load the game.

First the last person to login is the only person who can host b/c they're the only person who can see everyone because the friends list won't refresh.

Second, with a group of 3 people each time we load into the game there's a very high chance that at least one of us will get stuck on the black screen of death and have to force restart the game. We seem to be able to load our own games most the time, but then inviting someone to our party and having them try to join our game in progress often leads to black screen of death.

The game is just literally unplayable if you want to try and go at it with friends.