Get cups, offer booze, enjoy co-op.
Ah, video games – how we love you and you predilection for rare items that people will want far more of than you easily make available. Oh, sweet frustration… In Koei Tecmo’s excellent Nioh, one such item that fits that description is the Ochoko Cup – and that’s because they’re actually required for a major game mode.
Ochoko Cups are the items that allow you to summon other players into your game as visitors. You’ll then be able to play co-operatively with them. In the world logic of Nioh, you fill one such cup with Sake and offer it at a shrine, which summons a visitor. They then have some of your booze (not from your inventory, mercifully) and join your quest. Makes sense. The power of booze…
Anyway: they’re quite rare. Here is how you can get some to get your co-op on – once you have a few, just hop into the menu and use them.
The best way to farm Ochoko Cups in Nioh
Ochoko cups are remarkably rare considering how important their usage is, but there are a few relatively reliable ways to get your hands on them scattered throughout Nioh. The first way is the obvious – Ochoko cups are offered as rewards for some side missions in the game.
Use your map screen to track down Ochoko cups by viewing mission summaries – you’ll be able to spot them in the rewards list. Ochoko cups can also be found around the world in chests and the like, and I’ve certainly found a decent number throughout my main save just by exploring. This will do you for your first co-op sessions. Later in the game they seem to get more scarce.
If you desperately need more, there is a more reliable method to get them that tends to be pretty fruitful – but it is a little more painful and challenging: fight revenants.
Fighting Revenants for Ochoko Cups
Revenants are the ghosts of other fallen warriors in Nioh’s world. You can’t really miss the opportunity to fight these guys: their graves are out in the world. Sometimes these graves represent real players while other times they’re developer-set NPCs.
Head on over to a grave and it’ll tell you their level, mode of death and other information about them. This information can serve to help you figure out if you stand a fighting chance. If you do, summon them and engage them in battle. Revenants are combat encounters that are generally hugely difficult one-on-one encounters, but they’re more likely to reward you with Ochoko cups than anything else as far as we can tell.
Generally speaking it seems like Ochoko cups are more likely to drop from Revenants that are more powerful than you. Find a Revenant that has a gear and load-out that you can think you can best that’s a level or two higher. Battle, win, and there’s a strong chance you’ll find an Ochoko Cup among their drops. If you want a higher chance, battle even higher level revenants. Don’t forget our combat tips, and to use items to buff yourself and inflict elemental effects on the enemy.
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