[2021] Remote Play

Hi WestTideZ!

I haven't used remote play myself, but I know others have done it successful for MageQuit (it's a feature 100% provided by Steam). You may already know this, but remote play works by allowing players to connect "virtual" controllers to someone else's PC, and then streams their screen to you.

As far as I know, there are a couple ways to do this in MageQuit.

1. Online: the person actually running the game can use mouse and keyboard or controller to go into Online. Once in the online lobby, other players connected over remote play should be able to join by hitting A on their controllers (or X on PS4 controller, etc). This should allow you to play online games against others if that's what you want to do. However keep in mind that the remote players will likely see double latency (since the game would already be online and then the display has to be sent to them)

2. Couch: if you are only looking to play with your friends doing remote play and everyone will be using controllers, it may be easier for you to go into Couch and all join at that point with A.

Also, last I heard, Steam Remote Play only supports up to 4 players because of an XInput limitation (we have the same issue with Steam Link because it uses similar tech). THAT REMINDS ME, MAKE SURE XINPUT IS TURNED ON IN THE GAME SETTINGS!

Hopefully they helps! If you are still having trouble getting things working let me know, and I can get on and try it myself.

Brett

Okay! I'll give it a try tomorrow and see if there's something wrong with it.

Okay, I tested it out and it works great!

Did your friend(s) all install the Steam Link application? We got stuck on that for a bit when we were trying it out.

See the "First time playing" section in the screenshot below:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/437089013292335115/877263553596375080/unknown.png

It's not a problem! Happy to help. You're actually the second person to say that about level 5, so I'll look into that today.

I have an update for you! It looks like our match history tables were super full, and one request in score submission was trying to load a lot of that table, occasionally resulting in the request running out of memory and crashing. I cleared out the tables and buffed your XP and gems to make up for the uncounted matches, and everything seems to be functioning properly now!

Also regarding your friend with remote play -- that's a bummer! I don't expect your friend to buy their own copy, but if they end up doing that, MageQuit will automatically select the best region for you two to play in together and route the traffic though that region's server :)

Thanks for letting me know about both things!
Brett

No problem! Enjoy 😁