Questions about splitscreen details before buying Awesomenauts

[Topiary]

Is the split screen local only ? Or can you play splitscreen online ? Would the following situation be possible; one player online in city A playing against 2 people in city B who are splitscreen'ing ? Could those 3 people form an online team in that situation ?
Thanks !

[Topiary]

...and 1 more situation; could the player from city A form a team with 1 of the splitscreen'ed players from city B with 1 bot, while the other splitscreen player from city B forms a different team with 2 bots ? Thanks again !

[peidei caldinho]

Yes and No, the second situation would not be possible. Splitscreen restricts you to the same team.

[Topiary]

Ok thanks for the reply Bruce. One more question then; in the 2 on 2 VS mode, if there were 3 players splitscreen in city B (yes, enough controllers are available), could 1 of them form a team with the single player in city A for VS mode ?

[Donut]

Splitscreen is only possible localy. However you can play in the set up you mentioned in a custom match. Why might I ask?

[K-poptosis]

What on Earth would be the point to online splitscreen?

[Topiary]

Because it seems that there are very few games that have online splitscreen play, and it's feature #1 that I look for, since PC's and controllers are already available. Sonic racing Transformed has the capability and it's extremely well done.

[Cheimoon]

Splitscreen in Awesomenauts serves only for 'couch gaming' (or whatever the technical term is), so to be able to play the game with friends on the same computer at the same time. So nope, no splitscreen with people that aren't using the same computer.

Might be a cool feature though - although it might alter balance in high-ranking play, as suddenly you would always see everything that's happening to your team (albeit with the trade-off of having a smaller screen).

[Joost]

Just to be sure it is clear what we support:

-You can do splitscreen with up to three players.
-Splitscreen players can play online and join lobbies. This can be done in any combination, so you can for example have a team of 2 splitscreen players and one normal player in team Red and a team of 3 splitscreen players in team Blue.
-You can play public ranked matches splitscreen, or local bot matches, or private custom matches.
-Splitscreen players are always on the same computer.
-Splitscreen players are always in the same team, so no local VS mode.
-For 3-player splitscreen a game controller is required. For 2-player splitscreen you can both be on the keyboard, but a controller for the second player plays way better.
-We support all kinds of weird joysticks and controllers.

[Topiary]

Thanks very much for the reply Joost - we'll be getting Awesomenauts sometime soon then - and we have logitech F710 controllers so that's all good.

[Joost]

I think those Logitech F710 controllers have an XInput mode, where they behave exactly like an Xbox 360 controller. Be sure to enable that when playing Awesomenauts, since joystick buttons will look correct for your controller then.