You can play on dlc stages that you don't own if a friend owns it online

[TheLetsPlayGhost]

My friend and I have just messed around with the new dlc. I own dreamland, and he doesn't as of now. I picked dreamland to see if he could play on it despite not owning the stage, and the stage was chosen when the battle started. This means if your friend owns dlc stages, you can play on them, even if you haven't bought the stage yourself.

 

[Xermo]

It was apparent that you don't have to own dlc for it to appear online when mewtwo first dropped.

 

[Fluorescent]

It's a bit of common sense if you look at it. If you buy Mewtwo for Sm4sh and attempt to play him online, what would happen if you played against someone who doesn't own Mewtwo? My first instinct would be that the game would crash and most probably will. But that's besides the point. Same goes with stages, if someone bought dreamland and you were paired to play with them, how will you play if you didn't have the data in your game to load Dreamland?

The game updates have the actual files for the DLC. The DLC you buy is actually just a key file which makes it so that you can access the DLC.

 

[Zerp]

Thank you, this is useful advice, just saved my brother a few dollars.

 

[tr3v]

Glad that their doing this with stages, too. It was apparent that this would also be the case with the characters, but this is a big plus. Nintendo could have easily done otherwise to grab a few extra bucks.

 

[Mario & Sonic Guy]

This is something that couldn't be done in Mario Kart 8, since if you didn't download any of the DLC packs, you can't race on any of the DLC tracks, nor could you join any groups that included them.