Shared Cloud saves for Coop games.

[Grimmrog_SIG]

There are many great coop games out there, may it be games like factorio, terraria, satisfactory, the forest and whatever else.

But great would be an option to allow games using a steam cloud shared save game.
Technically a save game that anyone of my authorized friends could start. Because very often we play as a group of multiple people and it always troubles that the host is the one using a local save game and that we have to coordinate him to be online.

These sort of games could greatly benefit from such a feature because we would not need any server to run. The game only runs when at least one of us wants to continue it without the need to find the original host to run it.

[LizardWizard]

If you have a game in mind, have you tried asking in the developer's forum to see if it's something they can enable for the account running the server?

[Grimmrog_SIG]

Originally posted by LizardMizard:

If you have a game in mind, have you tried asking in the developer's forum to see if it's something they can enable for the account running the server?

In these games you have no server thats the issue, in the end a game would have to define any sort of access to the steam cloud, in which we could allow othrt friends of steam access to.

[Tito Shivan]

This sounds more like something that belongs more in the realm of the game developer than in Steam itself.

Originally posted by Grimmrog_SIG:

In these games you have no server thats the issue, in the end a game would have to define any sort of access to the steam cloud, in which we could allow othrt friends of steam access to.

Imagine the following scenario:
Players A, B, C and D share a save.
Players A and B start playing that save in Coop
Players C and D start playing the same save each on their own.
D Saves and leaves
A and B save their game and leave.
C saves and quits.

In which state is the Steram cloud save now?

[Grimmrog_SIG]

Originally posted by Tito Christmas:

This sounds more like something that belongs more in the realm of the game developer than in Steam itself.

Originally posted by Grimmrog_SIG:

In these games you have no server thats the issue, in the end a game would have to define any sort of access to the steam cloud, in which we could allow othrt friends of steam access to.

Imagine the following scenario:
Players A, B, C and D share a save.
Players A and B start playing that save in Coop
Players C and D start playing the same save each on their own.
D Saves and leaves
A and B save their game and leave.
C saves and quits.

In which state is the Steram cloud save now?

would not happen, it's a cloud shared access save, so if one uses it it's locked.

[torama]

best idea

For Valheim, project zomboid,
Only one save on the cloud and the first player to arrive uses cloud save