How to activate second player - splitscreen PC

[Kapucha]

I just want to play on splitscreen with my friend. How to activate second player. We both want to play on keyboard but we can't turn on second player. Any tips how to do it?

Also where is the restart button. When I hit ESC during racing I expect to have restart button.

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Warm regards,
Marcin

[~HaY~]

Originally posted by Kapucha:

I just want to play on splitscreen with my friend. How to activate second player. We both want to play on keyboard but we can't turn on second player. Any tips how to do it?

Also where is the restart button. When I hit ESC during racing I expect to have restart button.

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Warm regards,
Marcin

Unfortunately, Player 1 must be both keyboard and the 1st controller.

if you want to play with a friend, you need 2 controllers at minimum...

[Kapucha]

Why I can bind keyboard keys for 1, 2, 3, and 4 player but I can't play split screen using one keyboard? This is ridiculus. This game have great potential but because of such stupid things I think to give negative feedback. Where is some support, discord channel where we can vote for changes etc...

[Leutermingas]

I do agree with Kapucha. This really looks a bug or, at least, an incomplete conversion to PC. Giving the ability to configure many player's control on a single keyboard but not the ability to play with them is ridiculous.
I do hope this will be fixed in a coming patch.
The answer from HaY is not totally right :
If I configure the player 1 with keyboard then the player 2 with a pad, two players are able to play.
But 4 players should be able to play. MicroMachines' guys knew how to deal with this almost 30 years ago.
Hope the receipe has not been lost with the infamous millenium bug.

[~HaY~]

Originally posted by Kapucha:

I just want to play on splitscreen with my friend. How to activate second player. We both want to play on keyboard but we can't turn on second player. Any tips how to do it?

Also where is the restart button. When I hit ESC during racing I expect to have restart button.

--
Warm regards,
Marcin

So after some investigation i found out it is possible to play split screen with player 1 as keyboard, and player 2/3/4 as controller.

Here is how:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2631747810

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2631747880

Ironically, you can acutally bind keyboard buttons to all players, but the problem is without a controller assigned to player 2,3, or 4, they cannot join the game, as the binding screen does not allow binding of the "join" button

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2631753809

Meaning, technically if you have 4 controllers plugged in, then you can have all players playing with keyboard. correct me if i am wrong.

Okay that's as far as i would test this functionality. It is a very underwhelming experience.

[Leutermingas]

Hi HaY,
You're right, you got the root cause of the keyboard issue. The only key available to join the game is "Return" and it is for player 1. So each of the other 3 players can not enter the game.
So only adding a keyboard binding for each of the three other players should do the trick.
Please, Circuit Superstars' guys, just do it.

[~HaY~]

Originally posted by Leutermingas:

Hi HaY,
You're right, you got the root cause of the keyboard issue. The only key available to join the game is "Return" and it is for player 1. So each of the other 3 players can not enter the game.
So only adding a keyboard binding for each of the three other players should do the trick.
Please, Circuit Superstars' guys, just do it.

Created a thread in Bug Report forum

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1097130/discussions/1/3114795024895454320/

[Leutermingas]

Great! Thanks HaY.