Project Cars woes: Can this happen to Elite?

[Viajero]

Apologies if this has been already discussed, but it d seem that if you bought Project Cars at the Oculus store then you are prevented from playing multiplayer with other platform players including Steam...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Vive/comments/4cy8ec/how_oculus_home_is_going_to_split_the_player_base/

Has there been any reported multiplayer compatibility issue with playing the Oculus store version of Elite?

 

[BigTed]

This is based on a lot of assumption but I think that Project CARS uses the Steamworks API for peer to peer style multiplayer, or something similar. Elite has its own servers - so if you bought through Frontier, or Steam, or Oculus, you connect to central servers, same as everyone else.

 

[wstephenson]

I share this understanding of pcars' problem. I heard on reddit that Steamworks handles matchmaking for them, so Oculus home users just don't exist to steam players.

 

[vic]

I share this understanding of pcars' problem. I heard on reddit that Steamworks handles matchmaking for them, so Oculus home users just don't exist to steam players.

Can some-one try and let us know which is the case please?

 

[CptSiddy]

They could play with steam users, if Facebook Oculus were not building walls and stuff.

 

[Bakkster]

I don't know why there would be any change for Elite. Apparently when you launch from Oculus Home, it just brings up the same, 2D launcher on your desktop that all of us use.

 

[CMDR Dahak]

They could play with steam users, if Facebook Oculus were not building walls and stuff.

Not really, they'd still need the Steamworks api included in the client, and that's proprietary to Steam.

 

[CptSiddy]

Not really, they'd still need the Steamworks api included in the client, and that's proprietary to Steam.

That they could get if they only asked, its not like Steam have not given access to that before...