Does the game have Co-Op or not? In which forms?

[Gabeux]

Hello there.

I'm trying to find proper info on whether Dysmantle has co-op or not, and in which form.
Is it singleplayer only?
Is it couch co-op?
Is it online co-op?

Hoping to grab it for me and a couple of friends depending on the capabilities, but it's hard to find any info on the state of co-op/MP on it atm.
Thanks!

[Hazamuth]

Before today we were single player only. Today we released an experimental coop feature with the newest patch. This coop is couch coop, with a shared screen where you go into the menu, select coop, assign controllers and then the player 2 appears on the screen. The game will not have a native online multiplayer component.

You are however able to use Steam Remote Play (which is pretty much a screen sharing app) to "play online". The way it works is that the host (player 1) streams their game view to player 2 and the player 2 transmits their control inputs to player 1.

[Summersdae]

It's couch co-op

[Gabeux]

That's great! Thanks for the quick response.

[Fr0gg0]

Shared screen is pretty meh, it feels like you are tethered to each other. Better than nothing I guess.

[Waddles]

Originally posted by Fr0gg0:

Shared screen is pretty meh, it feels like you are tethered to each other. Better than nothing I guess.

Between the time it takes to implement a second entity player and all the logic to back it up, the fact the devs didn't need to do it, the fact it lets you and a friend play with only one copy, and that you can do near real time screen sharing on Steam's part is astounding.

But yea 'meh'... Why does anyone make games when the customer base is this ignorant and entitled.

[Spacecraft]

So i tried remote play and invited a friend, but we couldn't figure it out. From the co-op screen it looked like player two could only join by pressing "Y" on a controller. Is it not possible to do remote play and have both players use mouse and keyboard? I'm assuming it's not because it's streaming their input to my PC.

[DuckingMitch]

Originally posted by TinyBabyOwl:

So i tried remote play and invited a friend, but we couldn't figure it out. From the co-op screen it looked like player two could only join by pressing "Y" on a controller. Is it not possible to do remote play and have both players use mouse and keyboard? I'm assuming it's not because it's streaming their input to my PC.

That is a limitation of remote play in general, the second person has to use a game pad since there can't be two different mice and keyboard inputs in windows, they would just be combined. Android phones with the steam link app can stream the game and be a game pad with touch screen controls.