Steam play together. How to?

[Karbomer]

I tried it with my brother and we both use same mouse. Is there an option for us to have separate controls or it was just fake bait on Steam game page?

[Rhydoc]

You can direct connect via IP to each other.
Network -> Connect to game server -> Brother's IP and Port
He of course needs to host the game
Network -> Start game server

[Karbomer]

I didn't ask how to host game. My brother dosent own the game. Steam Remote Play allows me to "stream" game for them so they can play with me too.

[junta]

Pretty sure it's a bait and also got tired of that endless pop-up.

[Karbomer]

What do you mean by endless pop-up?

[junta]

The steam overlay shows the message about remote play

[Nathan Pascal]

Uhm... the conversation seems a bit confusing to me.
Do I understand correctly, that RemotePlay already works for you, Karbomer, but you don't want, that both of you control the same mouse-cursor on the screen?

But in this case I would not understand what the "fake bait" in this scenario would be? It is a mouse-based game and you play in seperate turns, so it makes sense, you both would move the same cursor, no?

When I played this way, it felt like working as intended. The only problem was, I had to de-/activate the other persons mouse-control every turn (I streamed), because my cursor was a bit buggy otherwhise, but well, only an inconvenience, nothing too bothersome.

[junta]

Yep, can confirm same above. Just tested with my brotha, who was completely new (first-comer).
The part with buggy cursor is inconviniet but not more. If you need to use a lot of mouse in your turn, you just turn off the availabilty for another player. You work just like a host in some table game. And it feels like hot-seat just through internet. Hence you won't play against each other but good for coop.

[Karbomer]

It is bothersome because I can't alt-tab so I would have to sit doing nothing not even touching my mouse during his turns. Also main problem was that I wanted us to be on the same team and doing simultaneous turns which is impossible.

[Nathan Pascal]

I think, neither RemotePlay nor CoE4 are designed to work this way.
In my limited experience with RemotePlay (with three different games) you always share the same inputs and the same screen, you are just able to use different devices at different locations to play together, that is the benefit. For a turn based game that does not support simultaneous turns (and only one device of input) this means, one always has to wait.

I am afraid there is no solution for this (but I also don't think there is any "fake bait" involved, at least nothing I find on the store page suggests otherwise.)

[junta]

Rofl. Nathan, you think real time strategies fit better for remote play aka remote hot-seat? Back in days we used to share one pc to play together in same game, now you don't have to stand up after your tun. :)

[Karbomer]

Nathan this game does support simultaneous turns when you are on the same team. Also RemotePlay recognizes multiple gamepads as different input devices. I understand that it's easy to decect different pads then to use multiple keyboards but still I hoped it would work. So yeah it "works" but it's very clunky.

[Nathan Pascal]

junta: Did I imply anything like "real time strategies fit better"? This wasn't my intention then, my English can be weird at times. I actually remember those good-old days.

Karbomer: And I apologize, I am surprised to learn there is actually simultaneous turns in multiplayer. Then I guess it is quite understandable to assume it could work with RemotePlay. Mea Culpa.

[rusty_dragon]

Originally posted by Karbomer:

It is bothersome because I can't alt-tab so I would have to sit doing nothing not even touching my mouse during his turns. Also main problem was that I wanted us to be on the same team and doing simultaneous turns which is impossible.

Thing is, that "Hot Seat" mode in 4x games never had simultaneous turns feature. Simultaneous turns feature is made for LAN/Internet multiplayer mode.

And Steam's Remote Play is a streaming service, that allows you to play "Hot Seat"/Split-Screen games remotely.

So everything is correct in the game's description at the Steam Store.

If you want to have simultaneous turn feature, both you and your friend must own a game copy, and play the game using LAN/Internet multiplayer mode. You'd be able to Alt-Tab without any problem, while playing like that. Hope this solves your problem.