Local Multiplayer?

[Straight_Miz]

Steam site says local multiplayer - but you cant play on one pc together, dont you? If you can, how?

[WetWired]

Steam has a clear distinction in their category marking for players between "Local Multiplayer" and "Shared/Split Screen" If we don't use the Local option there is no other option to define Local LAN play.

We cannot help the difference in terminology but can only use the options Steam has provided for us.

Here's a link to show you the options available http://imgur.com/jWxeg0B

[Straight_Miz]

Thanks.

Anyway, is there a plan to add "splitscreen"? It could be on oe screen without split if you know what i mean. With two controller or something. Is anything like that an option for the future?

No matter what, im looking forward to play it. Alone or with a friend, doesnt really matter in this case, because i already have it :)

[WetWired]

Unfortunately we don't have any plans to implement split screen at the moment

[deliciouspancakes]

Originally posted by WetWired:

Steam has a clear distinction in their category marking for players between "Local Multiplayer" and "Shared/Split Screen",

WetWired, this is incorrect. This is not the intent behind there being a Local Multi-player and Shared/Split screen tag. The Local Multi-player and Local Co-op tags are in no way intended to be used for LAN.


Here's a brief history of the recent Players tag changes to better explain why:

Originally there was no Local tags at all. Only Shared/Split Screen. When you picked this on the dev interface under Players it applied the Local Co-op tag to your game on the Steam Store page. This was understandably confusing for Devs and a lot of them were using the tag incorrectly so I asked Valve to change the Shared/Split Screen tag on the devs side to Local Co-op and add a Local Multi-player tag. Valve, rather than converting the Shared/Spit Screen tag to Local Co-op, created a new tag but left the old tag in place so devs could convert to the new system at their convenience.

In other words, Shared/Split Screen is an obsolete tag which has been replaced with Local Multi-player and Local Co-op. These tags are in no way intended to be used for LAN. The correct tag for your game (since it features co-operative gameplay across a network/the internet) is Online Co-op. Since I don't believe your game incorporates competitive elements, the Multi-player tag is unnecessary.

If you really want to stress that your game features LAN based play, the best tag to use would be the Co-op tag. Local (in the context of the Steam Store Players tags) means same computer, not same network, and using that tag is only going to frustrate your customers.



TL;DR

Please remove the following tags as they may confuse your customers:
Multi-player
Online Multi-player
Local Multi-player
Local Co-op

Please keep the following tag:
Online Co-op

If you wish, feel free to also use the Co-op tag to show your game has LAN but not shared PC Co-op as this is kind of a catch-all tag.

If the game does have a competitive mode, please ignore the request to remove the Multi-player specific tags above.

Please refer to this thread for questions about the Players tag revisions:
http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/412449508292033203/


Thanks!

[Smokalotapotamus]

Very misleading. If your game requires a network then the co-op is not "local".

[Xentor]

+1 to this. Considered buying as I'm looking for more couch co-op games to play with friends... Would have been an angry refund. Thanks for the heads up.