Please give PC players the option to play in Split Screen too, it’s such a great feature that is missing across the whole series on PC which is a shame, we have real life friends too Gearbox
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No we don’t. Seriously though, it’s a logistics issue. computer monitors are designed to be viewed by one person. More than that, very few people I know keep 2 keyboards, much less have them both plugged in. Or mice.
Monitors like said were intended for 1 user. Though many PC’s now could just use a large screen TV as a display via HDMI.
I’d really only see 1 person using KB and mouse. The others would have to settle for a controller.
Better solution IMO. Make friends buy their own copy and PC and have a LAN party. >.>
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If you’re going to go to that effort to for broke. I have 6 displays on my PC. Let me run all 4 player slots at once. I still have 2 left for web browsing and streaming video. 
Well, I know you CAN run 2 sets of kbm (or more) just fine. For instance if someone does a lot of programming and has a bunch of boards set up with 10000 macro’s. It’s just not a common usage.
The last only time I did 2-player on a single computer, we each had our own end of the keyboard to use. The game had been programmed to access the raw key codes so it could distinguish between the left and right sets of alt, shift, and ctrl keys. I have no idea what the game was, though!
there are plenty of games with split screen on PC so i don’t think that would be a problem and controllers are fine imo but having the flexibility to use multiple keyboards or a mix would be nice, you can do so much with PC that i can even see each player using one monitor, something consoles can’t really do
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yeah i don’t think sharing a keyboard would work very well in this case haha but multiple controllers, keyboards or a mix probably wouldn’t be that hard to port since it’s already implemented in consoles
I won’t ever be using it. I need space to sprawl on my throne. But more power to you.
I don’t get it, if you will never play split-screen why bother commenting this post? This post is not for you, we dont need your useless comment.
There are many PC games that support kb/m + gamepad for 2 player split-screen. And split-screen is already there in console code. Devs just think its not important enough for PC. And when we want to voice our opinion, people make useless comments. Plenty of people uses mod to play BL2 and TPS on same PC. At least I hope they don’t remove this modding feature.
Edit: Sorry, I replied to the wrong person.
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As someone that has multiboxed 5 different accounts of World of Warcraft at the same time on one monitor I can say with authority that there is no monitor related limitation to displaying as many different viewpoints of a game as the developers program for. As to inputs - anything that can be done on a console can be done on a PC. Certainly if one wished to simplify inputs controllers could be used instead of a mouse and keyboard, but, again, that is a programming issue, not a hardware one.
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Sorry to bump, but I’m another who would very much like to have split-screen co-op support on PC.
My gaming PC is a compact Mini-ITX system hooked up to an HDTV and it’s great for playing with a controller, or multiple, but so few PC games bother to include split-screen support, even when the code already clearly exists for the console versions.
I’m not interested in multi-monitor support, just give me the same feature the consoles have and let me worry about whether my monitor/TV is any good for it or not, it’ll still be infinitely better than not having the feature at all.
Currently the biggest games with proper local co-op support on PC are the lego games, which to be fair, do do a good job of scratching my colourful mayhem itch, but I’d prefer to do this with a Borderlands game without having to run two or more full copies of the game using third party tools.
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Heck, we could even use splitscreen in windowed mode to s t r e t c h it across two monitors without devs having to code in multiple displays. Let the OS deal with it! Or let us run two instances of the game? In two windows?
I know that if you have a window (like a web browser) you can kinda let it hang out between two screens on Window’s OS. Not sure about Mac… but I would bet so. I can guarantee it would be an ugly solution to multiple screens, though!
I am pretty sure Steam/Epic won’t support multiple users – but that’s what SHiFT is for, right? So our characters can go cloudward, and the game instance only has to deal with distinguishing control inputs. I bet it’ll be quite taxing to run, though.
As far as multiple instances, I was envisioning a sort of wrapper program that can handle web services and feeds two windows, each running the game and tracking inputs *independently*. Kind of like how web browsers run – if you open Task Manager, and exit tabs one by one, you can watch tasks disappear until your last tab has several tasks open, which all close together.
On the playstation, we were able to use cross-save for one character via (I think) SHiFT’s cloud. I do know it’s a lot of infrastructure – but it seems to be in place on some scale.
And why not allow anonymous guests to save files locally/to a flash drive? That’s probably super exploitable, so I may have just answered my own question. But the loot instancing seems to help with just inviting a friend over for a playthrough, even if they have to start the skill tree over each time.