Local Co-Op?

[Not Jim Sterling 💯]

I see now that it has full controller support, which leads me to ask, did they also add split screen local multiplayer like the console version has?

Because that would be one less thing for the kids to fight over and one more thing I could do with them.

[Not Jim Sterling 💯]

So just spend hundreds of dollars to play with two people in the same room. That's not unreasonable at all.

I shouldn't need two computers to play local multiplayer if a game has split screen on console. Stop limiting me bro.

[VagueCryptid]

Originally posted by Anon:

♥♥♥.ga just get 2 more computers.

Don't avoid filters please.

Originally posted by Red Communist:

I see now that it has full controller support, which leads me to ask, did they also add split screen local multiplayer like the console version has?

Because that would be one less thing for the kids to fight over and one more thing I could do with them.

As far as I know, no, there is no split screen yet on PC. However, like you said, it does have controller support.

[Not Jim Sterling 💯]

Originally posted by Ninjathis:

As far as I know, no, there is no split screen yet on PC. However, like you said, it does have controller support.

I hope they add split screen support in the future, especially since the console edition has it, it just doesn't make sense that console gamers get a feature PC gamers aren't allowed to have.

A lot of people have other people they either live with or have come over and it'd be great to be able to play split screen with them.

[VagueCryptid]

Yea, I wish there was split screen too, although there are lots of different features from Console to Pc, to even the Mobile version. Splitscreen, bosses, and items are all seperate.

[Not Jim Sterling 💯]

Yeah it just makes no sense is all. If a crappy Xbox 360 can split screen there's no reason my dedicated gaming desktop shouldn't be able to. I have a 32 inch screen connected to this thing that can stream from my living room, why is the only way to play with someone from the couch to plug in a console?

[Great Blue]

they are not gonna make split screen on the pc anytime soon, BUT it is possible it could be added in the future but it would be highly unlikely.

[Not Jim Sterling 💯]

That sucks, I don't understand why they won't.

[MrGraunke]

Indeed... Why don't add split screen support??!!

[Not Jim Sterling 💯]

A contrived purely rationalizing reason is likely to be given to justify the status quo IMO.
Even though console edition will prove it wrong.

[PrideGroupIsEvil]

Originally posted by China:

A contrived purely rationalizing reason is likely to be given to justify the status quo IMO.
Even though console edition will prove it wrong.

Lack of planning would make it hard for them to add it. See they might have never thought about it, and in code that can lead to problems. It's possible, but it's like building a house.

say you built a 1 story house, with no basement. then you decided afterwards that you want it to be two stories and have a basement. you can't just "add" it. You have to first discover where the house will need structural support to hold that weight on the second floor, and then make sure it's not going to collapse with support beams in the basement.

In code, "moving things around" can be a problem if aren't very organized, take precautions in how you write the code for unforeseen needs, and if you didn't make it modular.

Now I don't know how organized and forward thinking these dev's are...but if they weren't then it would be a real problem. considering that someone managed to read their code and make a separate port for it though, suggests that they are at least somewhat organized and have readable code.

also, i necro'd this because yyea..i wants splitscreen. i dunno if in 2017 it's been done, because i haven't been on in a while...and i don't care if it bothers you that i necro'ed this...i feel that making a separate thread would have been a bigger waste of search results.

[Not Jim Sterling 💯]

If they can add local on console they can add it on PC.

[Calliope]

If they added splitscreen onto PC version, it would make two people have to play on the same keyboard if they didnt have controllers. Seeing this problem it would be much easier to just have two computers rather than one computer having to take more proccesing power to control 2 versions of the same game. so you would most likely have to buy a stronger computer to even handle splitscreen so thats most likely why they wont be adding a splitscreen to pc.

[Not Jim Sterling 💯]

Originally posted by Lord Kor:

If they added splitscreen onto PC version, it would make two people have to play on the same keyboard if they didnt have controllers.

Then they'd just get controllers.

If they didn't have controllers nothing would be different for them, because practically no one plays local on a shared keyboard.

Originally posted by Lord Kor:

ISeeing this problem

What you presented isn't a legitimate problem, it's a rationalization for why nothing should ever change.

Originally posted by Lord Kor:

Iit would be much easier to just have two computers

No it wouldn't.

Computers are expensive, players would need more than one copy of the game, and LAN is highly impractical for most gamers and Local isn't.

Originally posted by Lord Kor:

I more proccesing power to control 2 versions of the same game

Split Screen doesn't require two versions of the same game, it's not like when you multi-box a game, requiring the CPU and GPU to handle everything twice. In Local Multiplayer, the engine only needs to be run one time for instance, it doesn't have to be run twice for the second local user, and third for a third local user, and four times for a fourth local user.

Originally posted by Lord Kor:

buy a stronger computer

Most PC gamers have computers capable of running games like Shadow of War, and most PC gamers with crap PCs have computers capable of running games like Shadow of Mordor, they'd be able to handle Terraria with Split Screen just fine.

[PrideGroupIsEvil]

Originally posted by Lord Kor:

you just got schooled by Not Jim

[leon58275]

2018 still no Split screen?? I've been waiting for 6years!! I want my money back... I know that's not gonna happen but this still is crazy i guess consoles are better.