Steam’s new Remote Play Together feature, which lets you play local multiplayer games over the internet, has launched in beta. The existence of the feature was first reported earlier this month, and it allows up to four online players (“or even more in ideal conditions” according to Valve) to participate in a local multiplayer game as though they were sitting in the same room.
This sounds pretty cool. It's a bit unfortunate that offline multiplayer games have taken a developmental backseat. Virtually everything is either story-driven SP or exclusively online.
thanks for implementing something end users have been hamachi'ing around for ages.
all this PC & console gaming stagnation has me grateful for my switch lite, and inbound wii U. Home brew and nostalgia will get my by until the industry finally wakes back up. We aren't too far off now, it just doesn't truly shake up until Intel launches their second run of GPUs.
Used to be called Hamachi decade+ ago and used among other free VPNs for playing dangerous waters games in multiplayer.
Some games still do support direct IP connection to a server but it's getting more rare as developers prefer to have their own single point of attack called master server without which their whole game dies instantly. The master server is used for discovering servers run by anyone or in some cases by the developer only.
An old school LAN doesn't need to be LAN if one has public IP server.
Who is this feature for with Steam...??? Beside the split screen gaming streaming mode? What Steam games actually benefit from having a VPN = one lacks public IP to run their server?
i'd assume it'll help folks play stuff like Divinity, & Borderlands across two PCs within the same home, without having a second license to use the official MP built in.
Steam does support many relatively old or small titles as well, some of which can be played over LAN.
Even if AAA/top title players don't need it, I'm sure many users will be relieved by the convenience of dropping VPNs in one form of another.
As long as it's not force-fed to users, I am perfectly fine with this feature.
I'm totally outraged that I now have a free optional feature that allows me to play my rather sizable collection of local multiplayer only steam games online. It's awful. How dare they?
Guys, this isn't to play local (as in LAN) multiplayer games over the internet. It's to play local as in "split-screen console style" multiplayer games over the internet.
What this does is it Streams your game (only shared screen multiplayer games) to your friend so they can play with you. For them it's like they are playing on Stadia or something, they are basically streaming the game from your PC. They just show up as a second local controller being connected. I've tried this with two friends in two games so far and it's worked great. Really cool feature to have.
FYI, you can apparently also use Steam Link anywhere now, meaning not just over LAN. You can not stream games to your phone or whatever from your PC where ever you are if you have a good enough internet connection.
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