Online multiplayer

[Kid_Inkarus]

I moved and play with my friends online. Is it just local multiplayer or online capable as well?

[HAYW1RE]

I also want to know if it is online capable. If anyone has the answer.

[Lunick]

It's not online capable, it doesn't have the Online Multi-Player tag on Steam.

[Jepp]

I think I have the answer! It is not currently online capable.

Due to the game being heavy with physics interactions, that makes it hard to implement online play and keep the game playing as intended.
However, online play was originally a(n unreached) stretch goal on their Kickstarter and I heard they MAY look into it further if there is a lot of support for it.

But please correct me if I'm wrong GM!

[Daniel]

That's a shame.
I'll definitely buy it in the future if they incorporate online play.

[X-oR.Belgium...]

Damn really ? why i see on youtube video about party golf with twitch integration ? Tag steam are always confused , if this game have not online, not interesst at all so

[X-oR.Belgium...]

it's weird, because when you look the store page , under about the game you have " - intégration de Twitch qui permet aux spectateurs à changer directement la jouabilité à travers le group chat" ..... in english it's something like , twitch integrated, you can change gameplay with the tchat group "

[Jepp]

There is twitch integration, but that is different to online play. Twitch integration means that people watching someone's stream can vote in the chat using commands to change settings in the streamer's game.
If that makes sense..

[X-oR.Belgium...]

you are right, my fault :-) well no buy so , no online, no money , thx for the information :)

[giantmargarita]

Originally posted by Lunick:

It's not online capable, it doesn't have the Online Multi-Player tag on Steam.

Jepp's comments in this thread sum up exactly what we the developer would say in reply to this very fair question.

Party Golf is a Local Multiplayer title only. (But it does have a single player trials element)

Controller support is not required. With just ONE controller however, you can compete against a mouse player. You can also play against an additional 3rd player with just one controller as well by enabling "Wacky Eight Player Split Controller Mode" from the menus. In that mode, two players use one half of the controller each, and may optionally play against the mouse player as well.

[Lunick]

I know how to activate the split controls on a PS4 controller but how do you do it on an Xbox 360/One controller?

[giantmargarita]

Hi Lunick, great question.

We've just looked into this and discovered that you can only split the PS4 controller since we make use of the PS4 controller's Touch Bar for this. We are currently looking to a solution to allow other controller types to do this (e.g. it will likely be using the "back" button on the Xbox360 controller), as well as a fallback keyboard shortcut for people with controllers that may lack the buttons.

We expect to patch in this functionality very soon as Wacky Eight Player Shared Controller mode is one of our favourite ways to play, and super important to let people play with friends when they don't have enough controllers! We'll post in here when this functionality comes through.