Platinum Games hasn't been particularly vocal about Nier: Automata's online functions, but in a recent livestream there was some light at the end of the tunnel, as reported by Gematsu.
As we know, Nier: Automata allows players to return to the place where they died, and recruit their own corpse as a temporary NPC or just retrieve their lost items. According to Gematsu, this chance is lost if you die again before you've had a chance to retrieve yourself, so to speak, or it takes too long for you to get to the spot. So the game mechanic is a little like Dark Souls/Bloodborne, with an added twist.
When playing online, your corpse is visible to other players playing online, and strangers' corpses can be resurrected to fight alongside you too. The developers were deliberately silent about what happens if a player tries to retrieve some other player's corpse instead of his or her own, though.
PC version of Nier: Automata still does not have a release date. According to DSO gaming Square Enix and Platinum Games are still thinking what do with the looming threat of piracy. This may very well have a result of a delay of the PC version compared to PS4 version.
Nier: Automata is released on PS4 on March 10. Do you like this system of resurrecting dead players? Or is is a little too much like Dark Souls?