Thanks for the Mixer Interactive feature!

[eram]

Guys n Gals at Tripwire, We have been having so much fun as viewers on mixer with the help and hurt the buttons that i felt the need to come say thank you. :D

It's great to see someone use the api in their game, we need more!

tbh I'll have to wait for the next sale before i can get the game for myself but after playing with the mixer interactive 2.0 buttons i'm all in.

Cheers.

[Pyrostasis]

I just wish that it was for twitch as well. (Everything Ive read is its a mixer exclusive)

While the idea behind it is awesome 95% of the streamers out there are on twitch. Having this as a mixer exclusive just restricts an extremely cool feature to an extremely small service, that could drive a ♥♥♥♥ ton of views and customers to your product if it were on twitch.

[eram]

Twitch cant do it due to the 10 to 15 second delay, mixer is the only platform with the FTL protocol. 0.2 seconds! :D You press the button, the thing happens on screen right away.

[Molly]

Glad you're enjoying it! It's pretty fun healing people on the verge of death. xD

[eram]

Puke then heal .. Streamer is like Whhhhhhhyyyyy! haha

[Molly]

First stream I watched on launch we viewers wiped the squad during boss round by spawning fleshpounds. It was good fun but the guild weighed heavy on me from then on, so I became the heal fairy from then on.

It would be great if we could find something similar to do with Twitch or add this in for PC Mixer streams as well.

[eram]

For PC yes please! It didnt even occur to me the streams we were playing with was on console, and yeah the guilt is real when you wipe them out.. Good thing i got 50k sparks to play with on mixer atm :D

[NORRRRRRR]

Streaming software that lets viewers alter the gameplay directly? That's pretty awesome! I've not heard of this until now. Is this a console-only type of thing?

[schenksmill]

I did the integration of Mixer into the Xbox build, so if there's any questions on the specifics, I can probably answer them to some extent.

Originally posted by NORRRRRRR:

Streaming software that lets viewers alter the gameplay directly? That's pretty awesome! I've not heard of this until now. Is this a console-only type of thing?

It's not inherently console-only, but for now we're limited by other non-Mixer things. The Mixer API is compatible with Xbox, Win32, and Windows Store applications, but with some asterisks there. The TL;DR is that it's only compatible with our version of UE3 for Xbox, and not compatible with our UE3 PC variant due to the compiler version we're using. There's some significant work to do to upgrade our Steam build to a newer compiler version, and it's not exactly clear that it's going to be doable at all, let alone within some timeframe that makes sense. We're looking at it, but it's a kind of large unknown at this point.

Originally posted by eram:

Twitch cant do it due to the 10 to 15 second delay, mixer is the only platform with the FTL protocol. 0.2 seconds! :D You press the button, the thing happens on screen right away.

This is a large part of it. Twitch has an interactive API, but even the lowest latency high-sub partner streams still are a matter of seconds of latency, so interactivity like we're doing with Mixer isn't really that possible. The technology Microsoft is using for their setup is seriously impressive in that regard.

[Jenksus]

I stream on Mixer and have my own server, and I would love to try this.

I'm workin on fiddling with this, though it does disable progress, one can bind admin commands to spawn zombies to keys, and use firebot to simulate said key presses via mixers interactive.

Though it doesn't have the "help" stuff, it does make the game harder/more interesting when people can spawn stuff on you constantly, and I'm perfectly okay with that. ;P

Best thing is, since I run the server this actually gets to mess with everyone who joins me too... since I modified my server to take 32 players so my viewers can join, those that cant can screw with them... ;D

[Muffalopadus]

Necropost: Really hoping you add the mixer stuff to the steam version. I'd really like to use it but I ain't buying the game again on the Microsoft store.