So, magical difference between PvP and PvE is that you can directly damage each other, right?

WRONG! The idea is to get people to compete by beating up more monsters than other players! Crowns are used to determine who was the most helpful, and the winner is the one with the most crowns. The main differences are:

• Crowns are "held" by each player. They are not placed into the player's inventory immediately.
  • Crowns currently held by each player are shown in next to each player's HP in the party listing.
  • If a player leaves, he/she doesn't get any crowns, and all of the crowns held are evenly distributed to the remaining party members' inventories.
  • These crowns determine the player rankings. (The first player is the one with the most money, and so on.)
  • These held crowns are dealt with at the end of each level. See below.
• While players cannot be damaged by other player's attacks, they WILL be knocked back by these attacks.
  • Friendly fire will cause players to flinch, interrupting what they're doing.
  • Friendly fire doesn't cause invincibility frames, though. Be careful about getting launched into hazardous traps!
  • Friendly fire cannot directly inflict statuses on other players.
  • Players can block bullets fired from guns.
  • As a side-effect, players cannot walk through each other; they are solid as in LD.
• Loot from killed monsters go to each players based on how much they contributed to each kill. (I.e damage dealt, statuses inflected)
  • As mentioned earlier, crowns are kept by EACH player who earns them.
  • Monsters don't simply "drop" loot; it "flies" into the players who contributed. In other words, get out there and fight!
  • It works so that, say, I remove 20% a monster's HP, and my "friend" then kills it. I get 20% of the loot, and my "friend" gets 80%.
    • I estimate that dealing a status counts for...probably 15% of the loot gained, or something. Then the 85% of the monster's loot is divided based on damage. Therefor, if I burn a monster and remove 5% of its HP, I've claimed 15% + (5% of 85%) = 15% + 4.25% = 19.25% of the monster's loot.
    • THIS WILL STACK! I get 15% of the monster's loot for the first unique status I (and only I) inflict, then 10%, then 5% for the rest. Therefor, if I burn, poison, shock, and stun a monster, I get (15 + 10 + 5 + 5)% = 35%. Then, the rest of the monster's loot is up for grabs based on damage dealt.
    • Note that the status counts for first infliction of each status by each player. If I were to inflict a monster with fire, and then another person inflicts it with freeze, we each are guaranteed 15% of the monster's loot. However, if I inflict a monster with fire, and then another player inflicts fire, only I am entitled to that 15% share of the loot. (Though the other player will still get money based on the damage dealt by the fire.)
    • As there are 7 statuses, the most loot that can be gained this way is 90%. (If 3 players inflict 2 unique statuses, then the 4th player inflicts the last status.) Of course, this is kind of silly and impractical.
• Players get some crowns for unlocking a door with a key. You can make players drop the key and/or other items by attacking them.
• Players also get crowns for opening boxes. Consumables work as in the old consumable system, although they can only be directly "transferred" to other players. (Don't ask me how transferring consumables would work. The purpose is to keep people from carrying huge amounts of pills past party buttons.)
• Rarities and materials (whether from boxes or not) are distributed randomly among party members. Heat is granted to all party members, whether they picked up the heat or not.
• When a player dies, they stay dead for a little while, consume one a SoL out of the Pool of Life (see next section), and then revive. As soon as they die (before reviving), some of their money drops on the floor around their body. The dropped crowns can be grabbed by other players.
  • There is to Emergency Revive in this mode.
  • Upon dying, players drop a percentage of the crowns that they are holding (not from their inventory). The dropped crowns can be swiped by other players. (Or the player who died, if he gets up before other players grab the money.) This percentage depends on what place the player is currently in.
    • If you have a full party of 4 players, first place (the one with the most crowns) loses 30% of their crowns, second loses 20%, third loses 10%, and last loses 5%.
    • If you have just 3 players, then first place loses 30%, second loses 20%, and last loses 5%.
    • If you have just 2 players, then first place loses 30%, and last loses 5%.
• The party has a shared pool of SoLs, called the Pool of Life. This is shared between the whole party.
  • Remember those SoLs you had to put in to start PvP mode? Those are used for this. If you have a party of 2, you start with the 2 SoLs you gave at the start of the run. If you have a party of 4, then you have 4 SoLs in the pool.
  • Your party gains one SoL in the pool for every level completed.
  • If a party member dies while there are no more SoLs in the pool, your party cannot use an elevator/party button until every player is revived. The only way for this to happen is for every player to donate an SoL to the pool, like at the start of the run.

I think that's everything...moving on!