Remote Play Together?

[TE5LA]

My understanding of this feature is that someone owning and hosting a Steam game that has support for this can play with others who do not own the game. Am I missing something?

I have tried two games now and this has not worked. I host the game, invite someone from my friends list, they accept, but then nothing happens on their side. I see their status as being in the game and connected via Remote Play Together, but they can't do anything. They can't get to the game, it just takes them to Steam's store page for the game.

Does the host player start a co-op game, or in this case, a server? Although it says the player is in the game and I see their name scrolling at the menu screen, they do not get to the game's menu at all and it says they are not in a joinable game.

Anyone ever done this? We are both on PC.

[Gracey Face]

I have seen a few people saying that L4D doesn't have remote play together capability despite being advertised as having it. I don't know for sure myself however as I have never tried.

[TE5LA]

I have tried three games so far that all claim to have it. None have worked. The only thing that occurs when the player accepts the invitation is they are taken to Steam's store page for the game.

[Raiden]

There's a hidden split-screen feature in the game.
Yes, there's a hidden FEATURE for some ungodly reason.

[Never]

i didn't work for me either howerver it was in another game, but i did manage to play, how i did was:

i clicked on the steam name icon thats all the way in the top left? i believe
went to configurations > accout

there is one option there, im not sure the name in english, buuut is about the beta version of this feature, once i enabled that i restarted steam it worked just fine!

i hope you understand what im trying to say here

[Kaitlyn]

L4D2 for PC doesnt natively support split screen, but it has the option so that might be why it comes up as supported.

[TE5LA]

Why is any of this split screen? Why do I need split screen if we are in different places with our own screens? I thought this was a way to play like any other online co-op game?

But I've tried at least four games now that all claim to support this and nothing works. The most my brother gets is a broadcast of my gaming screen. There is no way for him to join the game.

[Kaitlyn]

I dont know how remote play together works so I cant comment on how it is/isnt meant to be used.

[Raiden]

Remote Play seems to make the second player able to control the game as if they were the actual player, and that's where the splitscreen comes into play, I guess? They'd have to set up their buttons too?
I don't know, that thing requires you to have a PC that eats souls to even run at a stable framerate. Hell, I have not heard anyone talk about Remote Play or even seen someone play with it.

[TE5LA]

Publicado originalmente por Raiden El Jacketo:

Remote Play seems to make the second player able to control the game as if they were the actual player, and that's where the splitscreen comes into play, I guess? They'd have to set up their buttons too?
I don't know, that thing requires you to have a PC that eats souls to even run at a stable framerate. Hell, I have not heard anyone talk about Remote Play or even seen someone play with it.

An then how do four people play a game, especially one that requires both mouse and keyboard?

[Raiden]

♥♥♥♥ if I know.

[Black Husky]

Publicado originalmente por TE5LA:

An then how do four people play a game, especially one that requires both mouse and keyboard?

You can't use the mouse & keyboard together, that would be like two people controling one mouse cursor.
Remote Play Together is like streaming your inputs to the hosts computer, kinda like Twitch Plays Pokemon but with only 2 - 4 players instead of 20k - 40k. You can however use mouse & keyboard and three controllers for 4 player coop games but L4D2 only has 2 player split screen as far as I'm aware.

[TE5LA]

Publicado originalmente por Black Husky:

Publicado originalmente por TE5LA:

An then how do four people play a game, especially one that requires both mouse and keyboard?

You can't use the mouse & keyboard together, that would be like two people controling one mouse cursor.
Remote Play Together is like streaming your inputs to the hosts computer, kinda like Twitch Plays Pokemon but with only 2 - 4 players instead of 20k - 40k. You can however use mouse & keyboard and three controllers for 4 player coop games but L4D2 only has 2 player split screen as far as I'm aware.

Have you played L4D2? How would you do it without mouse and keyboard?

And Mortal Kombat X which is already separate keys for two players on a single keyboard because everything occurs on a single screen, doesn't work with this.

[Black Husky]

Publicado originalmente por TE5LA:

Have you played L4D2? How would you do it without mouse and keyboard?

...a controller.

[TE5LA]

Publicado originalmente por Black Husky:

Publicado originalmente por TE5LA:

Have you played L4D2? How would you do it without mouse and keyboard?

...a controller.

Okay, aside from the fact that a gamepad is horrible for shooter games, how does the invited player get into the game? I have tested this on four or five games and there isn't a way we've found to do this. In L4D2, each player must occupy a slot in the host's server. Granting access of the mouse to the invited player just allows them to set the host's settings. Steam shows that player is in the game and their name scrolls on the L4D2 main screen, but when hovered over, it says "Player is not in a joinable game."

Not trying to argue but I think this feature has been over-hyped and is nothing more than desktop sharing that could be done with something like Teamviewer.

[Black Husky]

Publicado originalmente por TE5LA:

Okay, aside from the fact that a gamepad is horrible for shooter games, how does the invited player get into the game? I have tested this on four or five games and there isn't a way we've found to do this. In L4D2, each player must occupy a slot in the host's server. Granting access of the mouse to the invited player just allows them to set the host's settings. Steam shows that player is in the game and their name scrolls on the L4D2 main screen, but when hovered over, it says "Player is not in a joinable game."

Valve (for some ungodly reason) removed the split screen feature in the vanilla game, that's why you can't just start a split screen multiplayer game from there, the only workarounds are either the console or mods that impliment the split screen feature into the main game (Urik Game Menu for example impliments this into the game, never tried it though).

Publicado originalmente por TE5LA:

Not trying to argue but I think this feature has been over-hyped and is nothing more than desktop sharing that could be done with something like Teamviewer.

It's not really arguing, more of a personal opinion.
And I agree with you, it really is just a overglorified desktop sharing but it CAN come in pretty handy if you play a local coop only game. These games are VERY rare to come by nowadays since we live in a time where online multiplayer is sort of a standard by now but it works kinda well with old games.