Yeah, I guess they chose this way as the more easily achievable... Can't wait to try it!
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New on Steam: Remote Play Together (play local co-op games, online)
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I hope this is a stepping stone to Steam finally supporting concurrent logins within a single instance. It's utterly ridiculous that 2020 is around the corner and Steamworks developers still have no way to implement proper, console-like split-screen (i.e. where each player is also a user and can earn achievements, carry their character and/or world progress over to their own system, etc.).
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You can already log into multiple systems at the same time. In-home streaming wouldn't be a thing otherwise. ;)
Oh neat thanks for the heads up.
Really need to try that myself soon @_@
It works quite well in my experience, even over WiFi, although I should note that my laptop is 1366x768 and not 1080p.
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Yeah, this has been bugging me too. I used to play MMOs together with my wife using ASTER. It works fine for non-Steam games (FFXIV, Guild Wars 2, etc), but on Steam it's just not possible and I hate it. I tried using stuff like Sandboxie but it's too much for me to tinker.
Yes and very few people know about it. It's an awesome. feature though.
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I wonder why it's not popular and widely used. I also totally forgot that it exists when creating this thread.
It feels fairly hidden? Not sure, I also forget about it most of the time. When I used it to play Mortal Kombat X with a friend it worked incredibly well though.
Because you need really good internet to use it. It doesn't work that great.
This sounds great.
My internet won't be able to cope, but I've got so many games that could use it. When I have better internet this will be great, as long as the latency is not too bad
My internet won't be able to cope, but I've got so many games that could use it. When I have better internet this will be great, as long as the latency is not too bad
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I've used Parsec to play local co-op games online a number of times. You don't wanna do games that rely on twitch inputs, but it works surprisingly well for more casual games. Even if it's less than ideal, it's an option for people that wanna get around limits.
Is the actual FAQ referenced in the tweet available anywhere?
Either way, very cool, will be nice to see this officially supported and likely much easier to use than a lot of other technologies that do similar things.
Either way, very cool, will be nice to see this officially supported and likely much easier to use than a lot of other technologies that do similar things.
Ars Technica article
I found the full memo sent to devs and wrote up my findings at Ars:
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I really hope 10 Mbps connection is enough for Remote Play, though I have a low expectation with it :/
This is what I'm after. Annoys me that Borderlands doesn't have split-screen on PC.
Still, this is a really cool feature.
Not sure if towerfall is great for this since it requires too much precision (aka no lag) ... Maybe the "us vs monsters" mode
If it's like the PlayStation version of this idea, no. It just simulates another controller in the local machine of whoever has the game, the game thinks two controllers are plugged in.
Nope. Just 1 person needs to own it, and they can have up to 3 others connect.
I've played Towerfall many times over Parsec, and other games like Hidden in Plain Sight, Samurai Gunn, Arena Gods... Each work perfectly with no perceivable lag at all.
The only problem with the tech now are image quality (which is great with Parsec) and audio (you need to take into account that Discord might be running on the host and might create a loop so there are software solutions to mute that volume for the people joining the host).
Curious to see how Steam will solve these problems.
I think Steam's "Record audio from all applications on this machine" option might be the solution to that. You can uncheck that, and it should keep discord audio off the stream.
I just ran a quick test with the standard broadcast feature, and it kept my music off stream with that option unchecked.
Wow! ok, Steam bringing an amazing idea/update. I'm just excited because it opens up a whole new avenue of games for me to play with friends. Granted this is just a first iteration but they will expand upon on it and if it's popular, other services will adopt it. Plus only 1 of you needs to own the game.
So I am not sure I understand this: Do I just send a video stream to a coop partner who does not need to own the game?
Edit: Apparently only 1 person needs the game.
Edit: Apparently only 1 person needs the game.
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