Steam Remote Play Beta Discussion

[Cruduxy Pegg]

https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/3032537193879549687

 

So steam's new service for coop is in beta. This includes local co-op, local mp and even split screening. Thoughts on it? What games -mostly older ones- would this benefit? Only the host needs to own the game too! So you can finally stop people from using money as an excuse for cooping :P.

[GarrettChan]

I didn't actually read through the whole thing. How does only you having the game work? Steam will download the game or whatever on the other clients? Or it's just a screen sharing and read your input? I tried my best to think of some local coop games and didn't think of any...

[Cruduxy Pegg]

Ye it seems like more gaming-oriented screen sharing tech. It stutters a lot so might want to wait until beta is over.

[GarrettChan]

5 minutes ago, Pegg said:

Ye it seems like more gaming-oriented screen sharing tech. It stutters a lot so might want to wait until beta is over.

If so, it worries me though... It seems screen sharing would take up quite some resources (probably my computer is crap), so I don't know how well it works. If it works, it does provide some benefit for some of the old games I wanted to play co-op but I can't have somebody sitting next to me (while I can't think of any for the moment).

[Cruduxy Pegg]

I could play it on a shitty old inspiron (like 8 years old) fine. I don't think it'll give you any problem unless you have slow internet. Worked fine in age of wonders 3 so far, aside from some sudden stream stops. But then again it is still in beta.