Announcing Online Support!

We are super excited to (finally) announce online support for Late For Work thanks to Steam's new Remote Play Together. Steam rolled out this amazing new feature which gives us online for free! You'll now be able to play Late For Work remotely with your friends with just a few clicks.

Online play is/was probably our most requested feature and while we always wanted to implement it, it would've taken us many long and stresfful months to implement and test. And it most likely wouldn't have worked very well.

We are really excited about this new feature. This is such a cool surprise from Steam. We hope that everyone who requested online support for Late For Work will try out the new Remote Play Together (although please note that it is officially still in Beta status).

If you're curious to try out Remote Play Together, it's quite simple. You only have to follow this short guide: https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/3032537193879549687

Here are the specific steps we went through to set it up in our office:

On all PCs (host + remote)

Enable Steam Beta:

• Navigate to Steam->General->Account

• Click on "CHANGE..." in the "Beta participation" section.

• Select "Steam Beta Update" in the dropdown list.

• Restart Steam

On Host (VR) PC

(After setting up the Steam Beta as described above)

• Start the game

• Minimize the game, open the friends tab

• Click on the Late For Work play together icon to invite your friends

Some Observations

In general, we are quite impressed at how well this new feature works. For a Beta, it's already quite stable (and technically impressive). Here are a few things we observed with Late For Work:

• It only supports one keyboard/mouse input (which makes sense). Other players have to use gamepads.

• Mouse input is not always accurate

• There are occasional input lags (although in general we were impressed by how good it behaves)

• We noticed occasional sound distortions (especially on the gorilla footsteps sounds). We're investigating if there are things we can improve on our side to address this.

Cheers, Salmi Games