How to online split screen
Please could somebody explain how I can split screen online with my son at home. We can do the regular split screen, but how do we both go online with splitscreen.
Thanks in advance
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Yeah this isn't working for me either, maybe someone can help.
I log in as usual, ready to play some PvZ.
I go to the monitor thing in my backyard to activate split screen.
I log in the other player as the guest to my account which has Xbox live.
I go to play a multiplayer game with my friend while we are in split screen and the option is grayed out.
So we tried going into the multiplayer portal in the middle of the garden and, this is where it gets tricky to describe in text. So let's say the top screen 1 is the main account and bottom screen 2 is the guest.
When 1 enters the portal first, it tells me that it "could not verify that you have the credentials to play online" or something similar to that. Even though I do have Xbox live gold.
When 2 enters the portal first, they are able to enter and float around in space while waiting for the party leader to join. When 1 walks in while 2 is waiting for the game, 1 gets the same message as above, and both 1 and 2 get kicked out of the portal.
The only thing I can think of is, do both players have to have Xbox live gold?? I don't want to buy a month of gold just to try this out and have it fail. I can play rocket league with a guest online just fine.
Am I doing this wrong? Is there a separate way to this besides the one I described?
Online multiplayer split screen (we are wanting to play Turf Takeover in a public online game) IS currently active right??
Sorry for the wall of text, just trying to get a good answer since we were really excited for this update!
Thank you very much in advance.
I log in as usual, ready to play some PvZ.
I go to the monitor thing in my backyard to activate split screen.
I log in the other player as the guest to my account which has Xbox live.
I go to play a multiplayer game with my friend while we are in split screen and the option is grayed out.
So we tried going into the multiplayer portal in the middle of the garden and, this is where it gets tricky to describe in text. So let's say the top screen 1 is the main account and bottom screen 2 is the guest.
When 1 enters the portal first, it tells me that it "could not verify that you have the credentials to play online" or something similar to that. Even though I do have Xbox live gold.
When 2 enters the portal first, they are able to enter and float around in space while waiting for the party leader to join. When 1 walks in while 2 is waiting for the game, 1 gets the same message as above, and both 1 and 2 get kicked out of the portal.
The only thing I can think of is, do both players have to have Xbox live gold?? I don't want to buy a month of gold just to try this out and have it fail. I can play rocket league with a guest online just fine.
Am I doing this wrong? Is there a separate way to this besides the one I described?
Online multiplayer split screen (we are wanting to play Turf Takeover in a public online game) IS currently active right??
Sorry for the wall of text, just trying to get a good answer since we were really excited for this update!
Thank you very much in advance.
I don't know this, but I suspect that both players need to have EA accounts in order to play online split screen, that it cannot be done logging in as "guest." I'm certain that multiple PS plus or xbox live accounts are not needed.
- We figured it out, you can't use local accounts. Each of the players needs to create one of the free playstation accounts, no need for a PS plus subscription. Then it will ask to also set up an ea account when you first log into pvz. You can't initiate the game from the free account though unless you trick it a bit. The fist player with the ps plus account needs to initially start the game.
So, how do you create this free account?
@Grasshog06 wrote:
So, how do you create this free account?
Do you mean a PS account, or an EA account? PS accounts can be made online I believe - start here:
https://account.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/login.action
You'll be looking to sign in to your account first, then poke around to see where to add another user. If that doesn't work, try making it from settings -> accounts (or something like that) from your PS. Typing is so much more convenient on the computer, though.
As far as I can tell, this is where you go to make an Origin account with EA:
https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/account/how-do-i-set-up-an-origin-account-for-my-child/
Hope this helps!
@tim_lex_tim wrote:
We figured it out, you can't use local accounts. Each of the players needs to create one of the free playstation accounts, no need for a PS plus subscription. Then it will ask to also set up an ea account when you first log into pvz. You can't initiate the game from the free account though unless you trick it a bit. The fist player with the ps plus account needs to initially start the game.Strange. I'm able to start the game from my account, or my daughter's, which is a sub account.
We also got this to work on an Xbox One after a week of disappointment thinking it would not work. At first Multiplayer had a red X through it when in split screen mode. But all it took was 2nd player logging on with FREE Microsoft account instead of being a guest. Once 2nd profile was created using the MS account we have been online gaming split screen ever since!
There is not a lot of info on how to do this and LOADS of posts saying online split screen does not work, but it does. Not sure if it was added after the fact and not in initial release but for sure it works now. :-)
