Once I plugged in my PS4 controller his started working. We were having an issue where Jay couldn’t use a controller on his end. We only had one disconnect which was easily fixed by changing the Bandwith limit from 10 Mbps to 50 Mbps. On my end, everything worked well and the games we played didn’t appear to have performance issues while hosting.
But Jay said he had very little to no latency and the video quality was excellent. I was hosting so I can’t speak directly to how well everything looks and feels on the client’s end. Maybe I just don’t trust my friends with unrestricted access! Dark Souls 3: Hard to show muliplayer on a single player game. I assume this is for when you’re streaming from one of your computers to another one of your computers. There’s an option to allow your friends to connect without your permission.
Simply sign up, download the client, and share the link to your friend to have them connect. But here I am staring at a web page that says “Connect to your games and friends anywhere.” I immediately told Jay we had to try this. I didn’t look too much into it because I didn’t have a need. Thanks to Belghast, I’ve heard of Parsec before but I was under the impression t it was just a way to stream games from a desktop primarily in your own home. Until I stumbled upon the Parsec website just the other day. There have been more than a few issues with lag and disconnects but again, like SharePlay, when it works it works.įor the longest time, Google searches came up with very little. This has worked well for us when we’ve used it. Not too long ago, Steam released a feature that lets you play local co-op games together. Lost Castle: local co-op through Parsecīut I’ve always thought there must be a way to do this on PC. We’ve played games like shadows of Mordor and Alien: Isolation this way. There isn’t a whole lot of lag, sometimes the video quality will get downgraded, but for the most part it works as intended. Once your connected, it works pretty well.
Couple that with the hour limitation staying connected to the host you and longer games sessions turn into frustrating endeavors. Most of the time it takes two or three attempts to connect to the host before the PS4 deems your internet connection worthy enough to connect to the host. SharePlay is good for what it is but it’s not without issues. Our first solution to this problem was the SharePlay feature on the PS4. One thing we’ve been chasing after for a long time is a way to play single-player games together. It’s great when a game has online multiplayer but if it doesn’t we either have to get creative or not play it. We’re always looking for ways that we can play games together. My best friend, Jay, and I live 2 states away from each other.