jorio
Single-Keyboard Multiplayer
If I remember correctly in the original game it was possible to play multiplayer with Keyboards, by one Player playing ADSW, and another JKLI, or a similar setup. I could be wrong tho, it has been some time. But if it was possible, could we have it again?
Yes, it was possible in the original game, but I chose not to allow it because it made it more cumbersome to implement other features I wanted to add (4-player mode, alternate keybindings, extra rear view key).
Another reason is people are going to try playing on low-quality keyboards with poor rollover (unable to register certain combinations of keypresses at once) and they're not going to have a good time.
So, it's a tradeoff, and in the end I decided to force the use of controllers for multiplayer.
If you only have one controller, the game will still let Player 2 use the keyboard.
In my book, this makes total sense. I fought with many a friend about "not being able to fire", because we were pressing too many buttons at one.
Thats very sad, but then I'll hope we might get network multiplayer sometimes, that also works.
And the simple trick (we also did back then I think) was to use two keyboards, then there is no issue.
Playing with controllers is not really an option for me; I know, many people prefer them, but for me I never used them, and never really liked them, and I'm horrible with them :laughing: