Battleblock Theater 2 Player Keyboard
Emelia Lute
Controls refer to how a player controls his or her character in the game Castle Crashers. The player can control their character using the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, keyboard, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch peripherals.
I am able to launch the game on my PC but when I start a local coop game, one of my controllers will control both the players which renders one of the characters completely useless.
I tried disconnecting one of the controllers and use the configuration of 1 keyboard+mouse and 1 controller but the same thing happens. The controller still controls both the protagonists.
Apparently, "A Way Out" has its own internal "DS4Windows" system. When I launch the DS4Windows along with the game, one of the controller will assume control of both the controllers. Thanks a lot for your help! I appreciate your swift response :D
"Two Friends One Keyboard" is a simple platform game intended to be experienced alongside a friend via local split screen. Connect with a buddy and work together to complete levels before the time expires.
To complete a level, both players must be standing on the 2 pressure plates at the same time to open the exit. Once the exit has opened, you must reach it before the time runs out. Collect fruit to increase your time. Jump on enemies to defeat them. The game was designed to be played with a keyboard but can also be played on mobile handheld devices with touch controls.
"Two Friends One Keyboard" utilises platforming mechanics such as coyote time, jump buffer and variable jump height. The combination of these mechanics adds to the overall feel for the game improving the user experience.
My team consists of a unicorn, a man wielding a sharpened candy cane, a cyclops throwing M-80s, a woman holding a giant stalk of broccoli and a floppy disk as a shield, and a sentient cupcake that heals them all. Pit People, the newest game from Castle Crashers developer The Behemoth, is not your average turn-based RPG. Coming to Steam Early Access this Friday, Pit People has already become one of my favorite strategy games in years, even if it's still a bit rough around the edges.
The Behemoth has managed to do one of the things that makes beloved cartoon show Rick and Morty so popular: it's created an absurd but coherent world where anything can happen. Any theme, any setting, any character or prop you want to mash together is on the table. Aliens, robots, and living mushrooms fight alongside uzi-wielding giraffe riders and armor-clad cyclops knights. A blueberry farmer using a WW1 mortar launcher and a spanish conquistador with an endless supply of nets can storm a castle, then chase down their fleeing adversaries and have an epic fight on the wing of a space shuttle. Nothing is off limits, and it's all continuously exciting.
And its UI issues aren't helped by Pit People clearly being designed for a controller first. Playing co-op on my couch with two Xbox 360 controllers felt like the way it was definitively meant to be played, and rivaled Divinity: Original Sin's combat as one of the best co-op RPG experiences I've had. Whereas using a mouse and keyboard worked OK, but often felt clunky. The character customization menus didn't work quite as I expected them to, and I was frustrated by the fact that I couldn't just click one of my units to select it in combat, instead having to scroll through all my characters with the mouse wheel.
The phenomenal voice actor Stamper returns from The Behemoth's BattleBlock Theater to be the narrator and main villain, and he's once again a highlight of the game. Unfortunately, there just isn't a whole lot to Pit People's story yet. The Early Access version releasing Friday pretty much only includes the tutorial missions, and then one larger story mission after that. There are side missions to complete as well, but the amount of stuff to do feels relatively bare in comparison to the seemingly finished combat and customization, and the massive arsenal of collectables already available.
The pit fight arena mode is the main attraction after you run out of missions. In it, you can either fight three AI teams in a row (which the game explicitly calls an "unfair challenge") or against other players online. I haven't had a chance to play in public matches online, but the PvP matches I played against friends were a lot of fun, a notable step up in difficulty from battling AI enemies. The strategy in an actual match is still somewhat simple, but seeing the choices your opponents have made outside of the arena allows human opponents to stay fresh compared to fighting the AI. The items they have equipped and the weird characters they have fighting give them their own sense of style, built up by unlocking more stuff.
While I love what I've played so far, I think I'll probably end up putting Pit People aside until it leaves Early Access. What's there is great, but I want more, and I don't want to spoil what's slowly added as it grows toward a full release. I'm excited to hear more of Stamper through the game's story, and hope they've cleaned up the mouse controls and battlefield legibility by then.
Recommended: A great platformer with responsive controls and a characteristic charm, Battleblock Theater is well worth picking up for that art style and humour even if you're not necessarily "into" platformers.
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Battleblock Theater is a platformer developed and published by The Behemoth, a developer best known for the born-on-Newgrounds hit Castle Crashers. Behemoth is a developer that has always had a sort of cheery black comedy sort of vibe going on with its games and that certainly carries on with Battleblock Theater.
That kind of creative art style is what has catapulted Tom Fulp and his studio The Behemoth into their relatively-recent fame after being one of the key founders of Newgrounds back in the early days of the internet, and it's hard not to see how they have gained that fame, and more importantly, held on to it. Animations are fluid, the character art is inventive with a variety of different characters available (including a Castle Crashers character for those who own both games), and it all gels together with the narration, sound design, and game mechanics very well. It is a very highly-polished game.
There are basically two main mechanics at play other than the usual simple mechanics of combat platforming: the actual combat items, and the different blocks which can have different effects. Some blocks will vault you about, others will kill you with electric shocks or drowning in water, yet others will slow you down or allow you to grip to a vertical surface. They're introduced at a steady and well-paced clip, and the levels as designed make very good use of these blocks and have some particularly devious ways of both needing to combine various blocks to get around to the objective gems you have to collect to be able to exit the level, and in finding ways to combine those blocks to kill the player in pretty creatively insidious ways.
The weapons are fairly varied as well, though I will refrain from commenting on specific ones since most of them come some ways in and as a result talking about specifics could be considered spoilers. Nonetheless, each one has it's own specific way of functioning and they offer all kinds of interesting possibilities for the cooperative or competitive multiplayer above all.
One of the biggest things with these kinds of platformers which is why I generally avoid them is because they're usually quite terrible on the keyboard and as some of you may know, I have pretty terrible arthritis that doesn't agree well with the XBox controller. BattleBlock Theater however, while recommending the controller as the best way to control the game, is perfectly responsive and playable on a keyboard, and I was able to get through the game without any problem with the keyboard controls. No doubt it's probably better to use the controller in competitive multiplayer, those keyboard controls are perfectly fine, quite good actually.
There were a few problems I had with the game, but most of them were minor. The Steamworks Market integration doesn't tell you what the going price for items are nor provides a cost history so you can possibly get ripped off if you're not researching your purchases or sales of game items to begin with - do be careful if you're using wallet credit for that as there is definitely a criminal element on Steam that will take all kind of advantage if they find you and consider you a mark. The game plays in a window that never quite seems to go fullscreen for me, and occasionally the mouse escaped the window, and the music played when still alt-tabbed. A few of the King of the Hill maps make it really difficult to dislodge a team that is currently on that capture point. But all of these are minor quibbles that don't detract from the load of fun I had with the game.