State of 8 player local multiplayer?

[Ghost in a Jar]

I've been checking back on this game from time to time, and for the last few months I can't get more than 4 controllers to work in local multiplayer. What's the deal? Is this something that's being worked on, or has the design switched to only supporting 4 players locally? That'd be a huge bummer as that's the only reason I bought this. I've read the last couple patch notes but they aren't terribly clear and mostly focus on online multiplayer.

And not to be that guy, but isn't the point of the game to watch hilariously bad fighting happen on screen and to laugh about it with your friends in the room?

Thanks!

[Lumena]

I just tested it couple of days ago and it worked fine with 4 wireless and 4 wired xbox 360 controllers.

[Ghost in a Jar]

ok, I'm trying to run 4 xbox 360 wireless and 4 xbox one wireless and it's only recognizing 4 random controllers (ie. 3 of one kind, 1 of the other, or anything in between). Maybe I need to be wired.

[[DISH] Grim]

Tried this the other day using 6 wireless 360 controllers.
The four controllers on 1 receiver were recognized, while the 2 on the second receiver were not, despite working correctly in windows.
Would love to hear if anyone has managed to get this working.

[Logic]

I've tried this with two wired 360 controllers, two wireless XBO controllers, one Nintendo Switch Pro controller, and a Steam Controller, and I can only get four to work at once.

[biowolves]

Hi,
If I remember correctly the problem might be that the Input setting 'Use XInput' is set to On. Setting it Off might solve the 4 controller limit.

[Logic]

Originally posted by biowolves:

Hi,
If I remember correctly the problem might be that the Input setting 'Use XInput' is set to On. Setting it Off might solve the 4 controller limit.

I tried disabling it about a month ago. Unfortunately it disabled all of my xbox controllers, and maybe the other ones too (I don't recall). Then again I'm using them over Steamlink, so that may have been a contributing factor.

[biowolves]

Okay, been looking a bit more into it and it would seam to be a limitation of the steam link. There is talk about something called 'VirtualHere' (a feature in the system settings on Steam Link beta builds) but I don't use the steam link so don't know much on it.
Hope this infomation helps.

Source:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/294000/discussions/0/458604254463631061/

Originally posted by murphinator2000:

I finally got a reply back from Steam support. It makes me sad:

Hello Michael,

Thank you for contacting Steam Support.

We apologize for the delay.

The Steam Link only supports 4 controllers at a time.

If you have any further questions, please let us know - we will be happy to assist you.

I asked if they ever foresee supporting more than 4 in the future...

[Logic]

Originally posted by biowolves:

Okay, been looking a bit more into it and it would seam to be a limitation of the steam link. There is talk about something called 'VirtualHere' (a feature in the system settings on Steam Link beta builds) but I don't use the steam link so don't know much on it.
Hope this infomation helps.

Thanks much, biowolves! I will have to try to dual-boot a linux distro and see if that works as discussed in that forum post.

[Logic]

Originally posted by biowolves:

Okay, been looking a bit more into it and it would seam to be a limitation of the steam link. There is talk about something called 'VirtualHere' (a feature in the system settings on Steam Link beta builds) but I don't use the steam link so don't know much on it.
Hope this infomation helps.

Source:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/294000/discussions/0/458604254463631061/

So I tried this on my Windows10 desktop in lieu of streaming the game to my TV via Steamlink. No more than 4 controllers work for me, as was the case with the Steamlink. I disabled Xinput as you suggested and only my two XBO controllers worked. My wired X360 controllers, Nintendo Switch Pro controller, and even my Steam Controller no longer worked.

[pehage]

When I turned off my Xinput, my playstationcontroller stopped working. They have not done enything about it yet. I can just use 4 controllers (of anny kind) if Xinput are on.

[pehage]

Originally posted by pehage:

When I turned off my Xinput, my playstationcontroller stopped working. They have not done enything about it yet. I can just use 4 controllers (of anny kind) if Xinput are on.

I can also plug my keyboard in, an have 5 players with that

[pehage]

I have found a solution!
Go to Stem bigpicture, then go to options, and then go to controller options then disable the configuration to your controller (if you use a PlayStaton controller, disable configuration for Playstation, if you use a Xbox controller, turn off configuration for Xbox...). No you should open Gang Beast, and go to settings, and input, and disable Xinput. Now you can connect more than 4 controllers to one local game!

[pehage]

Originally posted by pehage:

I have found a solution!
Go to Stem bigpicture, then go to options, and then go to controller options then disable the configuration to your controller (if you use a PlayStaton controller, disable configuration for Playstation, if you use a Xbox controller, turn off configuration for Xbox...). No you should open Gang Beast, and go to settings, and input, and disable Xinput. Now you can connect more than 4 controllers to one local game!

Steam have use a own configuration for controllers unlike the standard (Xbox). Those configurations does gang beast's Xinput not support. If you disable the configuration to the other controllers, steam use the standard configuration on all controllers, and this cofiguration Gang Beast's Xinput support.

This is a wierd thing but it probably fix it later, I think. But this should work fine with all controllers.
You can also have 8 different controllers, because all controllers have the same configuration!!

[pehage]

Sorry for my English