Remote Play Together will allow friends to play local co-op games together over the internet
With Steam, offline multiplayer games can soon be played online with friends.
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Valve wants to help us all play more video games together, and to that end, it's introducing a new feature in Steam called Remote Play Together. The feature will effectively turn every local co-op game and multiplayer game on Steam into an online game.
Today our team announced another great new platform feature that will be built into Steam: Remote Play Together. This will allow friends to play local co-op games together over the internet as though they were in the same room together. pcgamer.com/steams-remote-…
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The Remote Play Together feature was announced by Valve staffer Alden Kroll on Twitter. Here's how he explains the feature:
In essence, Remote Play Together turns one player into the online host, with the game running locally on their PC. Whatever game they play, stream them to other players online. Input from those players is sent back to the host and records in-game as if the players are playing there.
However, the new function is not complete here. According to our sister site PC Gamer, it will be in beta form later this month. An announcement explains: "All local multiplayer, local co-op and split-screen games will be automatically included in the Remote Play Together beta, which we plan to launch the week of October 21."
Another step for game streaming
This may not seem like the biggest news, since many of the best multiplayer PC games already have online multiplayer, but it is a positive step for game streaming and a nice touch of Valve. The feature can be especially useful if Steam allows gamers to play the same game online when only one player owns the game, as would be the case in the local multiplayer.
Remote Play Together is also another way to show the potential for game streaming. Not only can players connect over a long distance, but probably only one of the players needs to have a game console. Only modest hardware is needed to support game streaming, as we learned in beta or Google Internships when we played Assassin's Creed Odyssey on a year-old Intel Celeron powered Chromebook.
With this update, it seems only a matter of time before game streaming comes in just about every corner of the game.
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