I was kind of disappointed when they announced that split-screen would be only for local play. If you would like to have online split-screen added to the game please comment on this post. Playing against A.I. is fun and the backyard looks massive, but nothing compares to owning real people next to your friend on the couch in online-multiplayer.
No split screen in the update for PC!
It's not hard to do!
I would assume that split screen multiplayer will not be added in the future. I imagine it's enough of a pain to get the game to render everything twice for local split screen, much less network that. Add in that there are better ways to burn money than figuring out how to do that for an infinitesimal portion of your user base and yeah, don't hold your breath.
Also, every mode in the game can be played in split screen, just to clarify for some people in this thread. You cannot play split screen online, but that isn't necessarily what a "mode" is in the context of the statement. You can play the BYB, the Garden/Graveyard Ops, and the Multiplayer Modes split screen - the last two being done in private matches, instead of networked ones. I would also hesitate to put the story quests down as a "mode" - those are activities, not discrete modes of play.
I agree, they said all modes. My son was really upset when he started the game and tried to have me join him in the backyard quests, am it doesn't allow it. There should be no reason we can't do quests together in the backyard. And they really need to change it so that we can play online in splits crew also. They advertised split screen in all modes, but they sure didn't give us that.
To me, split screen is just two or more camera view points fixed to the character on the map, which could be just rendered once. Then track all players positions and render accordingly on the map.
However, doing this with a full team of 24 players, (22, if you don't include yourself and your split screen player), might be too much of a load on the hardware, or maybe the servers. Seems unlikely though.
It would be nice if they would offer their reasons.
I saw some of you guys asking ONLY FOR pc!!!!
WTF!!!!!
I play on Xbox One and I also want online-multiplayer split screen!
NOT JUST PC! FOR CONSOLE TOO!
Just purchased this for my XBOX One for my 2 boys for Easter. Normally I dont let them play my Xbox and keep them on the old 360, however I was convinced I had remembered hearing this game would fully support split-screen online for 2 players unlike the first Garden Warfare. To say we are disappointed is an understatement. Sure they are having fun for now playing local split-screen, but they were really looking forward to playing against others online at the same time. This may be the last GW game we buy until this issue is resolved.
My two boys love this game. I don,t live with them, so bought the game to play on line.
I see nothing on the box to indicate that they can't join me when in split screen. Two very disappointed children. A rather big blot on an otherwise quality game :-(
@Sir_Wild_Wiley wrote:I was kind of disappointed when they announced that split-screen would be only for local play. If you would like to have online split-screen added to the game please comment on this post. Playing against A.I. is fun and the backyard looks massive, but nothing compares to owning real people next to your friend on the couch in online-multiplayer.
