2 player local co op on 2 keyboards??

[Lshorty]

So i know you can play coop with a keyboard and a controller, or 2 controllers on the PC...but i'm wondering if you can play local coop with 2 keyboards? There are 2 different sets of controls in the options for the keyboards, so there should be a way? i can't figure it out. If it's proven that you can't use 2 keyboards, anyone know like a emulator or something to use your keyboard as a xbox controller. thanks in advance

[fawkernot]

you must REALLY like your friend

[Lshorty]

Just wanna play coop, and dont have a wired xbox controller lol

[Lshorty]

Bump

[Milky]

Bump, I would like to be able to play with my younger brother sometime.

[Daemonologist]

In theory, you should be able to use a PS/2 keyboard and a USB keyboard or 2x USB keyboards by just ensuring they're connected&working and setting the controls up appropriately - the important thing to realise with 2 keyboards though is that both keyboards send identical inputs, so you have to use completely different key bindings for the 2nd player, and have to make sure that each player knows which keybindings to use too. Even then, it would be quite easy to accidentally control the other player by pressing one of the keys bound for them.

e.g. 1 player could have wasd+ijkl with e for bomb/tab for map, etc and the 2nd player could have tfgh and the arrow keys with y for bomb or something (though iirc they actually removed player 2 being able to bomb in the recent patch anyway?). The point is, the keybindings for each player can't overlap.

The question then is how to trick the game into letting the 2nd player join with said alternate keyboard controls. This can be done via a program like VJoy[headsoft.com.au] and setting up the 2nd player's controls via VJoy. There's probably several other programs floating around that can do this too, but this one has been around for quite a while and is known to work in general.

Essentially, the game will think you have a keyboard and a controller, but in reality it will just be keyboard inputs, which some of the keyboard inputs being converted to controller inputs just so that the game allows them. This could even be done with just one keyboard, however it wouldn't be very practical, the 2nd keyboard is purely to make it more practical to actually play with.

[Lshorty]

Yes you can play with 2 keyboards, i've already tested it, if you download a program like "Joystick" Where you can configure another keyboard, then it works.