Queue into a game with friends

[Sean P]

Quick question: in the online multiplayer mode, can I match against random people online with my friends? Or is only one or the other?

[Joran]

Right now it's one or the other, but we are looking into implementing this in the future since it's high up on our own wishlist as well.

[Sean P]

Good to know, thanks.

[ProdigyXP]

Originally posted by Joran:

Right now it's one or the other, but we are looking into implementing this in the future since it's high up on our own wishlist as well.

I'm not sure if I am misunderstanding, but today I chose to play with a friend online and on two different occasions, two other people joined my "lobby" after we finished a game or two. Then we played with them for seveal games before they apparently left (not sure if they intentionally left or something disconnected them). Like I said, I saw this twice, which was odd, because I had read that it was one or the other in this thread, just before I started playing.

PS: I love that you put in a host migration! Thumbs up.

[Joran]

Originally posted by ProdigyXP:

Originally posted by Joran:

Right now it's one or the other, but we are looking into implementing this in the future since it's high up on our own wishlist as well.

I'm not sure if I am misunderstanding, but today I chose to play with a friend online and on two different occasions, two other people joined my "lobby" after we finished a game or two.

This is actually a bug we are working on. For some reason friend games are listed as public as well. So this means playing with friends will open up to random strangers. We are going to fix this in the next update.

We do want to add multiple local friends against other people online, but this is a different feature we need to build.

[ProdigyXP]

I actually like the "bug" then. It would be nice to invite online friends to a lobby and then open to pubs to fill out the slots.

[Joran]

I see what you mean, we'd love to have this as well. But it should be a choice. Right now strangers can pop up in private games and that can be quite annoying.

[ProdigyXP]

Yeah, it would definitely need to be an option to allow them. I just meant that allowing pubs into a friends game is a good thing when the host desires it (rather than one or the other).

[Joran]

We have fixed random people joining your friend game. You can read about this fix here:

http://steamcommunity.com/games/437920/announcements/

In the current build you can't queue up with friends. What you can do however, is let a friend join a public lobby and when he's in, you can join that same lobby through the steam overlay.

[The Incredible Husk]

[update for anyone currently having issues, like me]

Alternatively, use Remote Play Together (right click a friends name in Steam friends list).