Starring

[Mei]

What is this Starring thing that pops up on the left of the screen?

[Sad Pug]

Cameo system or whatever it's called.
When there are 2 characters on map (split path for example), you can see the progress of other character. If you play offline, then by deafult it will show nothing or how Capcom played it.
If you play online and someone happens to be playing the same mission, you will see how they are playing. Starring is the user name.
That would be it.

[Sad Pug]

Originally posted by Shirayuki Z:

Originally posted by Sad Pug:

Cameo system or whatever it's called.
When there are 2 characters on map (split path for example), you can see the progress of other character. If you play offline, then by deafult it will show nothing or how Capcom played it.
If you play online and someone happens to be playing the same mission, you will see how they are playing. Starring is the user name.
That would be it.

I play offline and I still see the other character progressing. Perhaps CPU?

Like I explained, if you play offline, you see how Capcom programmed it (and when you play the next mission and you see progress of previous one, it's actually you from what I gather).

[DifuntO]

Originally posted by Shirayuki Z:

Originally posted by Sad Pug:

Cameo system or whatever it's called.
When there are 2 characters on map (split path for example), you can see the progress of other character. If you play offline, then by deafult it will show nothing or how Capcom played it.
If you play online and someone happens to be playing the same mission, you will see how they are playing. Starring is the user name.
That would be it.

I play offline and I still see the other character progressing. Perhaps CPU?

If you play online it shows the name of the other player. It says starring "name".

[dezereks]

I don't understand, I don't see anyone else playing. I see a starring username but thats it. Is there a button I have to hit to see the gameplay?

[Keagian]

Originally posted by dezereks:

I don't understand, I don't see anyone else playing. I see a starring username but thats it. Is there a button I have to hit to see the gameplay?

No the game is just letting you now that someone else ran a certain mission that is part of the same stage your on, you might catch a glimps of them but that;s about it. Their replays of what those players have done unless your paired up with "The DMC Crew" then that is a developer AI playing through the level. Only two levels in the game is actually coop-able where this system actually matters.

[dezereks]

ok lol, thanks, thought i was missing something

[ᴛᴀʟᴜ 🐦]

Never found any use of this starring stuff besides about mid or end game where you actually fight togheter against monsters. In the split paths you don't really see the other player, so here multiplayer becomes useless and only eating up internet.

[Zefar]

In one area I got

Starring

Zefar
And
Zefar

Now hold on, surely you got other people to pick from here.

There is only one fight where you fight together but I don't think it's another player but just an AI controlled one.

[it's a gabe]

This system is really weird if anything. But playing one of the early missions offline as Nero, I noticed that a part of a building that broke down the first time I went through that mission didn't the second time around exactly cuz I wasn't playing online. That missions specifically will sync you to someone else playing as V on the same map, but on a different mission. And V is the one who makes the side of this building break down, revealing some red orb clusters within.

I don't recall stuff like this happening often at all, though, so it's... kind of useless? And I also fail to understand how we're even give someone else a thumbs up and agree that they're "stylish" when 1) we don't get to see their rank for that mission and 2) we don't get to see them all and we're playing together, why the hell am I gonna pay attention to what someone else is doing when I got my own combos to pull off?

I'm playing online from now on only to see if any other missions have this thing where a character on another path opens up something for the character on the opposite path. But even with that one moment when we get to fight that boss in the ruined theater, I found multiplayer to be quite trivial.

[it's a gabe]

Originally posted by Zefar:

In one area I got

Starring

Zefar
And
Zefar

Now hold on, surely you got other people to pick from here.

There is only one fight where you fight together but I don't think it's another player but just an AI controlled one.

It does seem to be an asyncronous multiplayer, where the game registers what other players do and then replays that when you're able to see them (or the AI takes over based on their performance).

I noticed this when I played offline from mission 1 up until when we get to control V for the first time. On the opposite side of the map, Nero was being controller by no other than myself. Yeah, the "Starring" pop-up had "unnecesaurus" under it and as I watched Nero from a distance, I did remember a few things I did.

[Bejo]

At this point, I should create a pasta about this, but here's the explanation:

If the name has something like <<<♦>>> on top of it, it's a live player playing alongside you in that mission, if there's no symbol, it's ghostdata. In mission 7 and mission 13, you can have a co op with other player starring in your mission, but the catch is they need to be in the same section with you, here's a video of someone playing the co op

https://youtu.be/VPcJmMY5cKg

https://youtu.be/RPRfWYn_Ymk

[Serrassi Effect]

I saw myself in a coop session after replaying a mission right after beating it with a different character. Good times.

[SecretAgentKiiN 特务健]

Originally posted by Serrassi Effect:

I saw myself in a coop session after replaying a mission right after beating it with a different character. Good times.

Too deep, can explain more?