And? Nothing there is specific to platformers or unique. It's just very basic stuff dealing with network coding. Looking at your past comments though it seems like you thought their peer to peer solution wasn't normal. If physics were done server side then yes you'd be fully correct on everything you've said. Platformers do need exact response times and such a system would ruin it. However you'd be crazy to do it that way. Almost all multiplayer games run local player actions locally. Pressing the jump button jumps your character and then sends a message over the network that you jumped. They don't send the message and then wait for it to return before making you jump. As a result every player sees a slightly different game, but there are no input delays for the player. This is what makes coding online really really complex.

When it's done poorly, this type of thing can happen.

Both people start experiencing completely different versions of the game.

Here is another case of both people seeing different things.

In this case however it's actually working how it should. The lag is horrible but the game engine is working correctly. Without the killcam no one would suspect there was an issue. It's messy in most games, but man does it work better than giving every player an identical experience.

With a platformer things are even simpler. The local player's experience is hardly affected by what online players are doing. It really doesn't matter if everyone else is a split second slow.

Getting everything to render online isnt the issue, its the playability of the end result.

Have you tried doing it? Try it. I want to see if you can do it.

Rayman Legends on Vita and LBPVita both have online co-op. Also calm down in your posts, you're extremely aggressive which explains why you're always getting banned. The Wii U obv has better online than the original XBOX, this was a bit of a troll thread.

The playability is identical to playing offline, apart from the actions of other players.

Also yes I've coded online games before.

It doesnt work like that man

Im talking platformers man.

LBP is a floaty platformer that has the exact same problems im indicating, and they only get worse in a 3D platformer with their collision physics.

And Legends doesnt have online co-op on Vita. Google it. It has ad hoc multiplayer.

Look., there have been EXTENSIVE arguements about the viability of online platformers, thery're on the internet, go look for them if you're interested in educating yourself. Im very tired of being aggressive, so please, ignorance be gone so I can calm the fuck down.

I own Rayman Legends on Vita and it has online Co-op.

Check for yourself:

http://us.playstation.com/psvita/games-and-media/psv-rayman-legends.html

Also all I did was give you two platforming games which have online co-op. How is that ignorance? Or maybe you weren't directing it at me :S very hard to understand with how you#ve structured your response.

Do you even bother reading my posts?

I already explained this and included two videos as examples. Fighters, shooters, platformers, etc. are all the same at the core. In ANY well made online game the playability is identical to playing offline, apart from the actions of other players. Since there is very limited interaction with other players in platformers, they're actually much simpler. There's much less you can do to hide the lag of other players, but there's also much less need to hide it in the first place.

It does work like that man. Unlike you I've at least explained why.

I think the ignorance comment was directed at me :0

How's the online in Legends? Does your player play exactly like he does offline, or do you miss every single jump as he lags all over the place?

It really depends on who I'm playing with (only really played co-op at work lol). Sometimes it's laggy as hell, sometimes there's hardly any noticeable lag as in my player plays exactly the way that he does offline (similar to the Vita-PS4 remote play).