Just bought the game - Parsec question

[Pelikan]

Hi,

Just got the game and pondering if i should refund due to not being able to play multiplayer vs randoms with Parsec.

Can someone confirm the right steps please?

1- Start the game Hellish Quart
2- Start Parsec and login
3- go ingame to vs player
4- alt+tab to Parsec then click the icon Hellish Quart at the bottom
5- Wait for someone to join

People joined but nothing is happening sadly.

Am i doing anything wrong?

Thank you.

[eglab]

They may have problem with controls, I have that issue all the time. Sometimes when I am host the people do actually play. It apears that keyboard is responsible for 90% of problems. When I played with my cousin throu just steam remote playing we could only play when he used gamepad controler instead. Also, did you actually go back into selection character screen in game vs player? If yes, wait for another player to select side he wants to play, sometimes when I am doing this as first my cousin report unresponsive controls.

[Pelikan]

Thank you very much Eglab for your reply. I will try again now. this game is fantastic, hopefuilly i can play against humans using this method. I will try again now.

I wanted to know if it really works because i did not manage yet. All the best.

[Pelikan]

Yeah apparently, both players need to have the same controls? There was a kind person from Spain who joined but apparently since i have a PS4 controller and he has a keyboard only, we could not play.

Do we really need to have the same controls? i mean if i have a controller, he must have one for playing with me ?

[Pelikan]

Ok, so it finally worked, someone called Edwanba joined and made it work after some time. He destroyed me but then he disconnected, not sure why. But at least i have the proof that it can work lol

Hopefully the devs make a priority of integrating the multiplayer because it is really an adventure to get it working.

[eglab]

Sometimes controls in parsec works differently it seems. I still cannot figure out how to make long guard on my keyboard, lol.

[eglab]

Originally posted by Kansuke:

Yeah apparently, both players need to have the same controls? There was a kind person from Spain who joined but apparently since i have a PS4 controller and he has a keyboard only, we could not play.

Do we really need to have the same controls? i mean if i have a controller, he must have one for playing with me ?

No, there is no need to have the same controls. In contrary, there should be much less problems with different kind of controls. Did you allowed him to confirm a side in selection screen or did it all by yourself?

[Pelikan]

Thank you for this info, that is a good news.

Basically when he joined at first i was in the main menu , then i went to "vs player", i could not change my character and he could not choose anything.

So i went out back to the main menu and back again in the "vs player" about 2 or 3 times then after some time , maybe 20-30 seconds, he suddenly managed to select his character and me too and it worked but honestly i do not know why it finally worked.

[eglab]

Be aware that controls may be strangely messed up for a guest. When I took the left side last time when i was the guest, I had to use WSAD and OKL as a controls instead of default WSAD + TYGH + backspace, and still couldn't find a key that was responsible for long guard. My reccomendation if you are host:
1. allowed guest to chose a side first (recomended left) by enter
2. confirm your own side
3. if default TYGH won't work, tell him to try press K to chose his character
4. Check if OKL works for a guest. Last game I couldn't figure out the long guard, so I played a "handicaped" game with most of my characters.

EDIT: looks like I and backspace are also controls that works. At least this is what manual says.

[Pelikan]

Thank you very much Eglab for your help, it is much appreciated.

[Ger4og]

Originally posted by Kansuke:

Thank you very much Eglab for your help, it is much appreciated.

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