does splitscreen and online co op still work?

[Nexures]

i cant find any info online

[Jackie B. Goode]

Yup you can play online with a friend and local co-op! The game is not splitscreen. You and your friend will pass the controller for your characters. As for online, both of you will play simultaneously with your own characters at the same time :)

[Nexures]

Originally posted by Jackie B. Goode:

Yup you can play online with a friend and local co-op! The game is not splitscreen. You and your friend will pass the controller for your characters. As for online, both of you will play simultaneously with your own characters at the same time :)

is it a different experience on passing controllers vs real time? different scenes etc?

[Jackie B. Goode]

While I've never done it myself, the same scenes should still play. I believe the local co-op option is called "Movie Night". If you played solo, you will be seeing most of the game. If online, there is a chance that the game will make you play a character that is different from the character you played in very specific scenes, especially if both of those characters are not close to each other.

For example (no spoilers at all here dw lol) there is a scene where one character gets separated. In my solo playthrough, I was playing as the character that was chasing after them trying to find and save them. But in my online playthrough with a friend, they were that character and I was the one who got separated trying to survive on my own, doing my best with QTEs until they find me.

Since there is no splitscreen, during local co-op the game can't possibly make you play 2 different characters at the same time on 1 screen. Which is why the game opts to let you pass the controller and make you play 1 character per scene. The only other difference is that during my solo playthrough, the scenes where characters are trouble. there were times where the game alternates between multiple characters so that solo players feel like they are responsible for saving multiple characters instead of 1 and making an AI decide the rest.

As far as different scenes go, you don't have to worry about missing out on anything! In all of the Dark Pictures games, you can never get the full experience from finishing it once anyway. This game is the only exception to that and I'd gladly explain why this has the least replay value but again, I don't want to enter spoiler territory :)

[GEDPAY]

best jeu

[Supermassive_CM]

Originally posted by Nexures:

i cant find any info online

Hey Nexures! Just to confirm what Jackie B. Goode has kindly explained above, both local co-op (Movie Night) and online co-op (Shared Story) are playable at present.

For online co-op, both players will need to own a full copy of the game in order to play together, as the Friend Pass for Little Hope is no longer available / active.

Originally posted by Nexures:

is it a different experience on passing controllers vs real time? different scenes etc?

In Movie Night, you assign characters to each local player, and then take it in turns to control them on a singular screen. This means that all players will see all events as they happen.

In Shared Story, you and your partner player will play different characters simultanously, experiencing elements of the story according to who you are playing. You may find that you swap to the other set of characters available at different parts of the game. You can choose to either communicate what you see happening with the other player or keep it to yourself for greater horror value and suspense.

I hope this helps!

- Georgina (Supermassive Games Community Manager)

[Nexures]

Originally posted by Supermassive_CM:

Originally posted by Nexures:

i cant find any info online

Hey Nexures! Just to confirm what Jackie B. Goode has kindly explained above, both local co-op (Movie Night) and online co-op (Shared Story) are playable at present.

For online co-op, both players will need to own a full copy of the game in order to play together, as the Friend Pass for Little Hope is no longer available / active.

Originally posted by Nexures:

is it a different experience on passing controllers vs real time? different scenes etc?

In Movie Night, you assign characters to each local player, and then take it in turns to control them on a singular screen. This means that all players will see all events as they happen.

In Shared Story, you and your partner player will play different characters simultanously, experiencing elements of the story according to who you are playing. You may find that you swap to the other set of characters available at different parts of the game. You can choose to either communicate what you see happening with the other player or keep it to yourself for greater horror value and suspense.

I hope this helps!

- Georgina (Supermassive Games Community Manager)

thank you kindly for your response. i guess movie night is better option because you get to experience everything right?

does "movie night" exist in all anthology games?

[Supermassive_CM]

Originally posted by Nexures:

thank you kindly for your response. i guess movie night is better option because you get to experience everything right?

does "movie night" exist in all anthology games?

You can experience most key scenes for yourself in solo playthroughs or by doing a Movie Night playthrough, so if you're wanting to see as much of the game as possible in a single playthrough, these two modes would probably be the way to go.

However, you might need to complete additional playthroughs and make different choices in order to explore every opportunity, secret and scene. These games are structured around the choices you make, so your experience can be very different if playing again and making different ones!

Movie Night as a mode is available in all four released Dark Pictures games alongside Shared Story as the online co-op mode. You can find both modes under "Don't Play Alone" in the menu.

- Georgina (Supermassive Games Community Manager)

[Nexures]

excellent thank you

[Nexures]

Originally posted by Supermassive_CM:

Originally posted by Nexures:

thank you kindly for your response. i guess movie night is better option because you get to experience everything right?

does "movie night" exist in all anthology games?

You can experience most key scenes for yourself in solo playthroughs or by doing a Movie Night playthrough, so if you're wanting to see as much of the game as possible in a single playthrough, these two modes would probably be the way to go.

However, you might need to complete additional playthroughs and make different choices in order to explore every opportunity, secret and scene. These games are structured around the choices you make, so your experience can be very different if playing again and making different ones!

Movie Night as a mode is available in all four released Dark Pictures games alongside Shared Story as the online co-op mode. You can find both modes under "Don't Play Alone" in the menu.

- Georgina (Supermassive Games Community Manager)

actually follow up question. so instead of movie night is it possible to do shared story but on the same screen?

[Supermassive_CM]

Originally posted by Nexures:

actually follow up question. so instead of movie night is it possible to do shared story but on the same screen?

I'm afraid not - Shared Story is online co-op, and uses two separate systems (player one and player two). If having two systems with two screens in the same room, you could play together that way, but not on the same system in split-screen or similar.

- Georgina (Supermassive Games Community Manager)

[Nexures]

ah sure, movie night mode sounds amazing as is anyways. thanks a mil

[Artawi]

Originally posted by Supermassive_CM:

Originally posted by Nexures:

actually follow up question. so instead of movie night is it possible to do shared story but on the same screen?

I'm afraid not - Shared Story is online co-op, and uses two separate systems (player one and player two). If having two systems with two screens in the same room, you could play together that way, but not on the same system in split-screen or similar.

- Georgina (Supermassive Games Community Manager)

i have another question, for movie night, is it possible to have 5 people use 5 separate controllers instead of it being 1 controller shared among alll 5

[Supermassive_CM]

Originally posted by Artawi:

i have another question, for movie night, is it possible to have 5 people use 5 separate controllers instead of it being 1 controller shared among alll 5

The default / intended behaviour is for all players to share / pass around a single controller, but I think I've read before that other players were able to make multiple controllers work if all connected simultaneously. I can't guarantee this though.

- Georgina (Supermassive Games Community Manager)

[QuaysToxic]

Is it possible to play shared Story on different platforms? For example, PC w/ Playstation or PC w/ XBOX?

[Supermassive_CM]

Originally posted by QuaysToxic:

Is it possible to play shared Story on different platforms? For example, PC w/ Playstation or PC w/ XBOX?

Hi there, it is not possible to play Shared Story cross-platform.