How to Steam Remote Play Together?

[Mathroy]

I could connect to my friend's stream and I can see his screen and control the mouse and stuff, but we can't actually add myself as a 2nd player.

[Usuario No Registrado]

I just tried it, unfortunately it seems you need 2 joysticks in order to play with remote play.

No way with one joystick and keyboard and mouse, or both player with keyboard and mouse.

[Mathroy]

Well that sucks... Can't seem to find how to play L4D2 either... Guess we'll pass on this nice feature.

[Usuario No Registrado]

Maybe they will change it with a future patch... because many people just don't have joysticks or prefer to play with keyboard and mouse.

[Mathroy]

Originally posted by Usuario No Registrado:

Maybe they will change it with a future patch... because many people just don't have joysticks or prefer to play with keyboard and mouse.

Hopefully, I don't like playing with a controller.

[R2zi3l]

Originally posted by Usuario No Registrado:

I just tried it, unfortunately it seems you need 2 joysticks in order to play with remote play.

No way with one joystick and keyboard and mouse, or both player with keyboard and mouse.

Oh thanks for telling us that. Well the devs can obviously implement remote play together to work without that requirement but not sure if they will do that cuz they must be busy making Baldurs Gate 3. Hope it does get implemented at some point though cuz it will only give them more sales.

[Zane]

I was going to buy it until I saw this :(

[B1AS]

Splitscreen is only possible with two gamepads plugged in. i would assume that this is the problem with remote play too.
and i think that this is really annoying. i hope they may change it, but i dont have high hopes for it.

[Mathroy]

Originally posted by B1AS:

Splitscreen is only possible with two gamepads plugged in. i would assume that this is the problem with remote play too.
and i think that this is really annoying. i hope they may change it, but i dont have high hopes for it.

Yeah, I basically bought the game myself so I could play with my friend, instead of both buying a controller. Pretty annoying but oh well they made an extra sell I guess.

(I still would've bought the game later anyways)

[Raze_Larian]

While split screen co-op is only supported when using 2 controllers, it is the UI itself which is the requirement, and at least in Windows you can use a virtual gamepad, like Headsoft's VJoy Virtual Joystick Driver[headsoft.com.au] (with the option set to block keys, in order to stop keystrokes from also being sent to the game).

I tested this with the original release of the game, but don't recall if I tried it again since the Definitive Edition. I didn't do a full gamepad configuration, just the left stick, Dpad, A/B/X/Y and start buttons, enough to see if it would work, and get local split screen going with a keyboard and Xbox 360 controller.
I've since seen mention of the program vJoy[vjoystick.sourceforge.net], but have not tried it.

After setting up the keys, at least with Headsoft's program you would need to use x360ce[www.x360ce.com] to get the game to recognize the virtual joystick. The default settings should be fine, though opening the x360ce program can make it easier to test the key layout and assignments.


Keyboard + controller was tried when adding the split screen feature, but there were technical issues with the UI that resulted in that not being feasible.

[Mathroy]

Originally posted by Raze_Larian:

While split screen co-op is only supported when using 2 controllers, it is the UI itself which is the requirement, and at least in Windows you can use a virtual gamepad, like Headsoft's VJoy Virtual Joystick Driver[headsoft.com.au] (with the option set to block keys, in order to stop keystrokes from also being sent to the game).

I tested this with the original release of the game, but don't recall if I tried it again since the Definitive Edition. I didn't do a full gamepad configuration, just the left stick, Dpad, A/B/X/Y and start buttons, enough to see if it would work, and get local split screen going with a keyboard and Xbox 360 controller.
I've since seen mention of the program vJoy[vjoystick.sourceforge.net], but have not tried it.

After setting up the keys, at least with Headsoft's program you would need to use x360ce[www.x360ce.com] to get the game to recognize the virtual joystick. The default settings should be fine, though opening the x360ce program can make it easier to test the key layout and assignments.


Keyboard + controller was tried when adding the split screen feature, but there were technical issues with the UI that resulted in that not being feasible.

Thanks for the reply. It's a shame we can't use 2 Keyboards without having to download a virtual joystick... Hopefully in the next years that feature will be implemented.

[bloodymonarch]

You need to have two controllers to do it.

[RoyalRedCrown]

let's say both of us have controllers, how can you make it to work, I can't seem to add another person or my friend in the game, we just control the same screen

[Mathroy]

Originally posted by RoyalRedCrown:

let's say both of us have controllers, how can you make it to work, I can't seem to add another person or my friend in the game, we just control the same screen

I'd also like to know this. It is just one player but controlled by 2 people at the same time... That's what happens when playing with Keyboard+Mouse, at least.

[Zenhasu]

probably a stupid question but, Me and my friend need to have one controller each right, or do I need to have two controllers myself for remote co-op to work?

[spotyelton]

Has anyone got Remote Play Together working on this game with two computers ?