One of the most intriguing elements of Google Stadia was the State Share feature, which was shown during the platform’s initial announcement. Although State Share has been absent throughout 2020, it will be appearing in Hitman 3 on January 20th.
State Share allows players to share save points via the cloud, but with all the pieces of the scene in place. It is essentially a way to take control during another player’s key moment and give the scenario a chance to see how it could be different. These moments can be shared with resources.
In our review of Google Stadia, Chris Plante wrote that “Stadia does not behave like a console, or even a platform in Netflix and Amazon mode. Many of the basic features that we consider guaranteed in our consoles and streaming services are missing ”.
State Share is one of the factors that can make Stadia a more interesting prospect as a platform, especially in the arena of Hitman 3. Hitman’s complex and dense levels can unfold in different ways, depending on the path you take, what uniform you steal or who you dispatch silently.
It will be interesting to see if this concept catches on and the players start exchanging their defenses with each other. The slow release of Stadia’s features probably hurt the chances of this type of community taking off, but the feature still has potential.