Only 2P split?

[Mad Danny]

“Race side by side with your friends in split screen mode for 2 players or face up to 12 opponents in online challenges.”

Really hoping this gets revised up to 4P split – 2 seems like a waste of potential for any arcade racer.

[FL33TWOOD]

4-player local co-op would be awesome!!

Such a drought of great arcade games with 4-player coop....

[Mad Danny]

It would be cool if more arcade racing games tried 8P split with support for various team modes, though it'll be a while yet til face-to-face gaming gets back to pre-COVID levels.

[☢HAL 9000]

How would you do 4 player on a SINGLE PC though? Its reasonable to assume you can play with your Steam friends via the online, but its not like a console where it natively supports 4 controllers.

[Mad Danny]

Seriously? PC supports 4 controllers same as consoles, plus 4 extra using different controller setups (e.g. 4 Xinput controllers running off one wireless dongle and 4 DirectInput controllers on either cables or their own wireless or Bluetooth systems) - so depending on where the key matrices might conflict on the keyboard you could probably get 10 players on one PC before it gets really squashy (depending on the size of the TV you're using).

I think legacy DirectInput systems had theoretical support for up to something like 32 controllers at once! (so consoles are actually why PCs now support fewer controllers)

[☢HAL 9000]

Ok, far enough.

[FL33TWOOD]

Nguyên văn bởi ☢HAL 9000:

How would you do 4 player on a SINGLE PC though? Its reasonable to assume you can play with your Steam friends via the online, but its not like a console where it natively supports 4 controllers.

It's 2021, we can connect to our televisions using the Steam Link device or Steam app Integration, or connect HDMI wired directly.

Personally I have an UltraWide 21:9 monitor that has ample space for 4-player coop with multiple controllers locally USB, Bluetooth or the official Xbox wireless dongle.

[AscendedViking7]

Yeah, I was hoping for 4P splitscreen.. :(

[AscendedViking7]

Nguyên văn bởi FL33TWOOD:

4-player local co-op would be awesome!!

Such a drought of great arcade games with 4-player coop....

I could name a few if you'd like. There's lots of great ones.

[fresco]

4P split screen would be awesome for all the post corona parties

[lulao]

2 player simply isnt enough. especially for this kind of arcade racer deal

[AscendedViking7]

Nguyên văn bởi lulao:

2 player simply isnt enough. especially for this kind of arcade racer deal

Yeah, this kind of game really needs 4 player splitscreen.

[AlexKVideos1]

I'm definitely glad that split screen is at least coming, especially on the PC version since it used to be common to strip that away from PC ports. Even so, I'm assuming this game wouldn't be that performance intensive that 4 player split screen is out of the question, even on consoles.

[❤︎Alice❤]

Nguyên văn bởi lulao:

2 player simply isnt enough. especially for this kind of arcade racer deal

You're right. We need a 12 player split screen game! Go big or go home! Imagine how small the screens would be lol, especially on like, laptops lmao.

[Mad Danny]

Nguyên văn bởi Alice:

Nguyên văn bởi lulao:

2 player simply isnt enough. especially for this kind of arcade racer deal

You're right. We need a 12 player split screen game! Go big or go home! Imagine how small the screens would be lol, especially on like, laptops lmao.

12 is a good number of racers in a game, but maybe a little impractical for splitscreen XD

More should support 8P though for on bigger TVs - the usual configuration that works is a 3x3 grid with the center one being the shared track map, and since previous such attempts were for consoles with a hard 4 controller limit, it similarly also needs to be designed so separate camera controls aren't needed - then you can have 2P per controller (viable for most twinstick controllers, but this is where designs like the Wii were great with their split controller designs)

[FL33TWOOD]

Nguyên văn bởi clambchowder:

Nguyên văn bởi FL33TWOOD:

4-player local co-op would be awesome!!

Such a drought of great arcade games with 4-player coop....

I could name a few if you'd like. There's lots of great ones.

Gimme, I have a couple. I just like to know ur input.