Local Co-Op?

[Crazy Alchemy]

Does this game have Local Co-Op? Because it seems like it would be pretty fun to play on the couch with a friend.

[that's what she said]

No.

[Crazy Alchemy]

Dang, it sure looks like it would be fun.

[raupi]

You can play locally over LAN (here is how). Unreal engine also allows playing splitscreen with up to four players, but the game is really not optimized for that.

[Crazy Alchemy]

LAN doesn't qualify as Local Co-Op because it requires more than one machine, that's why LAN games don't use the Local Co-Op tag, it's considered misleading the customer for them to do so.

I'd love to play LAN, but unfortunately, I don't have the hundreds, possibly thousands of dollars it would take to get two to four gaming rigs set up in one room.

I guess I could ask my PC owning friends to dismantle and lug around their heavy desktops and risk breaking them from all the moving and potential dropping, but I somehow suspect they'd find that unreasonable.

And my nephew doesn't own a computer, he's six years old and doesn't have an allowance, so I guess I could just not pay my bills and have my power shut off for a few months to buy him one.

[Wafflesaurus Supreme]

Originally posted by Red Cyka:

I guess I could just not pay my bills and have my power shut off for a few months to buy him one.

That sounds like a pretty good plan.

[Crazy Alchemy]

Originally posted by Tired_David:

Originally posted by Red Cyka:

I guess I could just not pay my bills and have my power shut off for a few months to buy him one.

That sounds like a pretty good plan.

I could also make drugs with a chemistry set like in Breaking Bad and sell them at a strip club, that would be a good way to afford a LAN set up.

[Wafflesaurus Supreme]

Or you could borrow a folding table and some chairs and have people come over with their PCs and have a normal LAN party which would cost you an additional $2 on your electric bill, at most. That's what most people choose to do.

[Crazy Alchemy]

Originally posted by Tired_David:

Or you could borrow a folding table and some chairs and have people come over with their PCs

Right, I can ask my friends who have PC's to dismantle their heavy expensive desktops and lug them around risking dropping or otherwise breaking them every time they visit in case we want to play two player on the couch, and go through the annoying process of setting up multiple systems each time, because that's totally not burdensome and impractical at all.

Or since some of my friends don't even have computers maybe just through some special set of circumstances I know all sorts of people with laptops, maybe I could ask them to let me borrow their private computers and ♥♥♥♥ around on their systems to play under the same roof with my friends, I'm sure they'll go for that, after all why would people have any objection to me hijacking their laptops for LAN?

[Wafflesaurus Supreme]

That's what we always did. (I used to carry a 70 pound CRT up and down a bunch of stairs every weekend.) Nobody ever dismantled or damaged their desktops, and the whole process of unplugging it and putting it in the car took less than 10 minutes. If it's such a big deal, you can ask someone else to host it, and then you only have to worry about your own system.

Some of us have played on our company equipment at the office. It's fine if you have that cleared for a specific use. (In other words, make friends with an IT person somewhere. We can be useful once in a while.)

If you're just trolling and complaining that you have lousy friends, then have a nice day. They're not going to add local co-op support next week just for you.

[Crazy Alchemy]

Yeah because lugging around heavy desktops doesn't require that a lot of wires be unhooked from them or that they be carried around which can cause them to get shaken or dropped or any number of things, so it should be cool to place that burden on my friends, there's nothing unreasonable about it.

And of course, I can always be the one to lug my big heavy expensive desktop over to someone else's house, spend ten minutes of my time over there trying to set it up, and then unhook it all when I'm done and lug it home, like that's no burden at all.

And if my friend doesn't have his own computer, I can just tell him to go buy one, I mean it's no big deal, it's only like a thousand bucks for a good one.

[Crazy Alchemy]

Look man I'm not saying they're going to add Local Co-Op, it's not in, it'll probably never be in. I'm just saying that LAN isn't an alternative to Local Co-Op, LAN requires a special set of circumstances and we aren't all special buttercups with rich friends that don't mind lots of heavy lifting and fooling with wires.

[raupi]

Well, too bad that good old LAN parties are not an option or you. There are only few games that I'm enjoying just as much on a split screen, but whatever floats your boat.

[Crazy Alchemy]

Originally posted by raupi:

Well, too bad that good old LAN parties are not an option or you.

Good old LAN parties aren't an option for most PC gamers, they're a pain in the ass to set up and they're only easily accessible to people in special sets of circumstances.

Generally, though not for this game specifically I suppose (though it is an Unreal Engine game and IMO every Unreal Engine shooter should come with Split Screen by default), PC shouldn't lack Local Multiplayer, consoles have it and PC is more capable than consoles, so PC should have it too. The only reason it normally doesn't is due to a historical accident and due to assumptions people in the industry make about PC gamers.

It's unreasonable to expect every PC gamer to just have access to more than one computer, and PC gamers aren't cave trolls, we have friends and family members who might like to play under the same roof. We shouldn't have to settle for playing with some anonymous stranger in Brazil instead of our own friends, family, and house guests.

[Michael]

LAN is perfect for me, because I have a room mate.

[Michael]

2 room mates not a room mate