Remote Play Together

[Suppenkoch]

I really hope for this feature.
Not everyone might agree, but for me it is a breakthrough technology on Steam.

[Elitewrecker PT]

From what I've used of it, it's basically a remote control of the host PC. What would you expect to do?

[peremptor]

If you want to play a campaign with a friend and take turns controlling the same faction... sure why not.

[Threetails]

You can do Co-Op campaigns. You can also give another play control over specific units of yours (not quite sure how tho).

EDIT: I'm not really sure what further you're trying to get out of this.

[Suppenkoch]

It seems you guys do not know about the benefits of it.
Also you should take a look into the new Steam Beta.

[Elitewrecker PT]

Does it work differently depending on the game? Because I'm not seeing how two people sharing input methods can do anything here. This isn't a couch-coop with different characters that can be controlled by assigning different keys.

[The Rickest Rick]

Originally posted by Suppenkoch:

It seems you guys do not know about the benefits of it.
Also you should take a look into the new Steam Beta.

Its more like I cannot fathom what purpose it would serve and frankly doesnt seem interesting enough to spend any time looking into so why should I care?

[Wh♂♂par]

Remote Play Together is for local co-op. This game is meant to be played with 2 people over online connections. You're practically asking CA to surrender the current franchise's worth to the second player, which normally would have to pay for it.

Edit note:
Instead of acting uppity, telling people they don't know, what you mean, say what you mean. Gee.

[Suppenkoch]

Originally posted by Wh♂♂par:

Remote Play Together is for local co-op.

*deleted lines in-between by qouter*

Instead of acting uppity, telling people they don't know, what you mean, say what you mean. Gee.

There is no reason to offend others.

And there you are wrong, exactly as I said

However, don't get me wrong. Before I write or comment or tell my opinion to something, I will first learn about the context. Thats how I was was brought up. Thats how you get toughted in school to do discussion. Otherwise we would just tell useless things without having any results.
I expect that from any other person, before he or she might comment, not knowing.

There is no uppity in this. Just lazyness by the other side, to use eyes and brains to read.
But there is nothing wrong and definately no shame about just simply asking "what the benefits or functions are?". So to clarify the context to be well informed, I present you the link.

https://store.steampowered.com/remoteplay

So no, it is not local coop. No one is sharing input.
It just uses some basical functions of it, as you can read. Still it works like simple multiplayer in most games. But as client you can play anywhere, including almost any device.

And since newest Steam Beta even without Steam installed:
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/homestream/discussions/0/3111395750231979202/

So I ask you kindly, please read first the sense and usage of RPT, and maybe try it out. Than we can speak a common language.

[Elitewrecker PT]

"So no, it is not local coop. No one is sharing input."

I have used remote play together, both as host and client, I know how it works. It wouldn't work here the way I've experienced it. Unless they managed to create some unique multiplayer campaign mechanism specific for RMT.
In Civ 6 for example, it surely works on the basis of a hotseat campaign. Because one player does his turn, then the client would remote control the host's input to play his turn.
You could do that in TW, but you wouldn't be able to do the real time battles.

[Wh♂♂par]

Originally posted by Suppenkoch:

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>Local Co-op.
>Having to Share input.

Lmao, OK.

[Suppenkoch]

Repeating myself,
you dont share input.

You re not bound to local coop modes. You also can play online with other players while playing remote play together. And remote play together by itself is not "local", that is the sense of it. There are games who don't support local coop and still support Remote Play Together.
It is not using the mechanics of implented local coop, it is using an steamworks API (as you could read in the links I gave).

Originally posted by Elitewrecker PT:

You could do that in TW, but you wouldn't be able to do the real time battles.

Why ? Other realtime strategies work quite fine. The same goes for FPS. There is no restriction. The developer just has just to implent it.

[Elitewrecker PT]

"And remote play together by itself is not "local", that is the sense of it. There are games who don't support local coop and still support Remote Play Together."

It "behaves" as if you were playing local co-op like in the old days.

How?! How would you do real-time battles with remote play together when you're sharing input? The keyboard/mouse presses of the client are replicated on the host computer as if the host computer was the one doing it.
Can you show us a game with remote play together where both players have their separate views, like if each was playing its own independent instance of the game?

For example:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Witcher3/comments/lu4t2k/witcher_3_remote_play_together_steam/
Why? Why is this a thing? What's the point?

[Suppenkoch]

You can look through game lists by yourself, of course. There you ll find such games.

https://steamdb.info/search/?a=app&q=&type=-1&category=44
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?sort_by=Reviews_DESC&category2=44

[Elitewrecker PT]

You're just dodging the question.