Family Sharing

[BourbonBandit]

I purchased the game and wanted to play co op with a family member in the same house but on our 2nd PC. We have family sharing enabled, but it does not allow the game to run at the same time as with other co op games that allow family sharing. Am I doing something wrong or is this not meant to work like that?

[Ilsalay]

Download a program called Parsec. The other PC can connect to yours and detect the controller/input of the other computer.

[Adam]

Could be wrong, but I always thought family share meant they can play any of your owned games you are not currently playing. So no free coop for them basically. Like I said tho I could be wrong.

[BLove]

Originally posted by Adam:

Could be wrong, but I always thought family share meant they can play any of your owned games you are not currently playing. So no free coop for them basically. Like I said tho I could be wrong.

This is correct.

Couch coop on the same screen is what one copy will allow.

[mike]

I was hoping it would work something like this, too...

Any idea how "Remote Play Together" works? It's listed as a feature on the store page.

[Ace]

Originally posted by mike:

I was hoping it would work something like this, too...

Any idea how "Remote Play Together" works? It's listed as a feature on the store page.

It's a crappy version of Parsec. Just use parsec.

[neilencio]

Family Sharing is not the feature you are looking for (family sharing works by letting your family member install and play games in your library, as long as you're not playing at the same time. It's basically like lending/borrowing copies of a single game within the household.)

If you want to co-op with family members/friends that don't have a copy of the game, the feature you need to use is Remote Play Together.

With Remote Play Together, they don't need to have the game installed. You just run the game, then open your friends list and invite the friend/s you want to remote play with. It will be like you're all playing on one PC (but subject to added latency.) Basically like Parsec, if you're familiar with it.