Remote play Together ?

[Vael de Lyis]

I know local coop is a thing, but the "Remote Play Together" tag is nowhere to be seen yet.
I've played DOS1 and DOS2 with a friend thanks to Remote Play, so will it be a thing for sure for BG3?

[Ozius]

BG3 isn't in Steam's list of current or upcoming Remote Play games.

It also wouldn't make business sense as in a 4 player co-op, only one person would have to own the game meaning they'd lose out on 3 sales.

[Lord Adorable]

Originally posted by Ozius:

BG3 isn't in Steam's list of current or upcoming Remote Play games.

It also wouldn't make business sense as in a 4 player co-op, only one person would have to own the game meaning they'd lose out on 3 sales.

BG3 will have Remote Play.

[Razorblade]

Originally posted by Ozius:

BG3 isn't in Steam's list of current or upcoming Remote Play games.

It also wouldn't make business sense as in a 4 player co-op, only one person would have to own the game meaning they'd lose out on 3 sales.

1. BG3 is neither a current release with Remote Play, nor is it an upcoming release. Steam considers an Early Access game released, even if it is an early release. Thus, BG3 does not fit the list.

2. Larian's past two games have had Remote Play Together.

3. Splitscreen is max 2 players in BG3, so you'd require 2 computers at least for 4 player co-op.

4. The game is DRM-free, meaning there's nothing stopping people from sharing one copy of the game anyway.

Sometimes, "good business" for a company is having a good reputation, rather than nickel-and-diming their playerbase and installing rootkits on their computers.

[Ozius]

Originally posted by Lord Adorable:

Originally posted by Ozius:

BG3 isn't in Steam's list of current or upcoming Remote Play games.

It also wouldn't make business sense as in a 4 player co-op, only one person would have to own the game meaning they'd lose out on 3 sales.

BG3 will have Remote Play.

Stating things you don't know for sure as a fact.

[Lord Adorable]

Originally posted by Ozius:

Originally posted by Lord Adorable:

BG3 will have Remote Play.

Stating things you don't know for sure as a fact.

Split-screen has already been confirmed for launch, so Remote Play Together will be available.

[Ozius]

Originally posted by Razorblade:

Originally posted by Ozius:

BG3 isn't in Steam's list of current or upcoming Remote Play games.

It also wouldn't make business sense as in a 4 player co-op, only one person would have to own the game meaning they'd lose out on 3 sales.

1. BG3 is neither a current release with Remote Play, nor is it an upcoming release. Steam considers an Early Access game released, even if it is an early release. Thus, BG3 does not fit the list.

2. Larian's past two games have had Remote Play Together.

3. Splitscreen is max 2 players in BG3, so you'd require 2 computers at least for 4 player co-op.

4. The game is DRM-free, meaning there's nothing stopping people from sharing one copy of the game anyway.

Sometimes, "good business" for a company is having a good reputation, rather than nickel-and-diming their playerbase and installing rootkits on their computers.

I hope your right but I don't see it being available for Remote Play at launch, maybe when they release an Enhanced Edition further down the line, after sales have started to wane.

[Ozius]

Originally posted by Lord Adorable:

Originally posted by Ozius:

Stating things you don't know for sure as a fact.

Split-screen has already been confirmed for launch, so Remote Play Together will be available.

I haven't tried Remote Play personally but when I did a little research into it, I couldn't find anything which said "all" local split-screen games have Remote Play, just "compatible" split-screen games do.

I hope your right (especially as DOS 1&2 are compatible).

[Razorblade]

Originally posted by Ozius:

I hope your right but I don't see it being available for Remote Play at launch, maybe when they release an Enhanced Edition further down the line, after sales have started to wane.

Weird take. Pretty sure the game would have DRM if the devs were that concerned about missing sales. It's like 1 line of code to enable Steam's built-in DRM.

Not to mention, enabling Remote Play Together for a game as a player is as simple as tricking Steam into thinking you're playing a game with it enabled, so it's not like Larian truly has the power to prevent it anyway.

You could play BG3 with Remote Play Together right now by downloading an RPT-enabled game (I suggest Valve's free Steamworks example game, Spacewar), throwing a copy of BG3 in its folder, and renaming BG3's exe. Process takes like 2 minutes.

Point is, Larian has historically never taken issue with Remote Play Together, has already shown they're not sales-obsessed by deliberately not putting DRM in BG3 or any of their past two games, and pressumably has competent-enough developers to realize that "disabling Remote Play Together" on a Steam game is meant to discourage players from trying to use the feature on a game that is not ready for it (i.e. the game has no local-multiplayer functionality). There is no actual way to prevent players from playing a game in RPT if they want to and know how to use Google.

[Ozius]

Originally posted by Razorblade:

Originally posted by Ozius:

I hope your right but I don't see it being available for Remote Play at launch, maybe when they release an Enhanced Edition further down the line, after sales have started to wane.

Weird take. Pretty sure the game would have DRM if the devs were that concerned about missing sales. It's like 1 line of code to enable Steam's built-in DRM.

Not to mention, enabling Remote Play Together for a game as a player is as simple as tricking Steam into thinking you're playing a game with it enabled, so it's not like Larian truly has the power to prevent it anyway.

You could play BG3 with Remote Play Together right now by downloading an RPT-enabled game (I suggest Valve's free Steamworks example game, Spacewar), throwing a copy of BG3 in its folder, and renaming BG3's exe. Process takes like 2 minutes.

Point is, Larian has historically never taken issue with Remote Play Together, has already shown they're not sales-obsessed by deliberately not putting DRM in BG3 or any of their past two games, and pressumably has competent-enough developers to realize that "disabling Remote Play Together" on a Steam game is meant to discourage players from trying to use the feature on a game that is not ready for it (i.e. the game has no local-multiplayer functionality). There is no actual way to prevent players from playing a game in RPT if they want to and know how to use Google.

I do hope I'm wrong, as stated previously, I've not personally tried Remote Play, just read up on it a bit and I maybe reading too much into the "compatible local split-screen" wording.

I am interested to see BG3 EA being played through Remote Play, can't find an examples of this.

Either way, I have no idea if it will or won't so I won't argue that it won't, it's all just conjecture until the game is released or I find someone already using it in EA.

Fingers crossed that my doubt is proven wrong in a month.

[Senyaak]

Even if not, U Airways can use parsec

[nanonull]

Anyone, is it possible to play via 'Remote play together' with friends on one copy of game?

[Vael de Lyis]

Sadly, remote play together isn't enabled right now.
So, in order to play co-op with a friend, you should both install Parsec. I did that, and it runs fine.

[Confirmed Cheeto]

Originally posted by Vael de Lyis:

Sadly, remote play together isn't enabled right now.
So, in order to play co-op with a friend, you should both install Parsec. I did that, and it runs fine.

There is also the RemotePlayWhatever program that you can use to enable remote play together in any game you have in your library.

[ari <3]

Originally posted by Confirmed Cheeto:

Originally posted by Vael de Lyis:

Sadly, remote play together isn't enabled right now.
So, in order to play co-op with a friend, you should both install Parsec. I did that, and it runs fine.

There is also the RemotePlayWhatever program that you can use to enable remote play together in any game you have in your library.

Have you tested it to see if it works fine? I tried that with my friend but it kept glitching the 2nd player's controller inputs. The controller works fine on any other game so it wasn't a controller issue. We're going to try Parsec and see if it works any better.

[Vael de Lyis]

Parsec works for sure, I can tell you that.
Just one thing, you have to "activate" your controller in the game first, before your friend clicks on any button on its controller for the game+parsec consider you are the player one. If not, it's a pain in the ***, you have to restart the game. That's the only tricky thing with parsec.