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Full Rocket League Cross Platform play is coming! (PC, PS4, Xbox One!)
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LiquidMetal14
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OdysseusVA
Banned
People should be flooding Sony/Shu on twitter and such.
First thing that came to my mind too.
Reminder that, for Rocket League, cross platform play does not equal cross-platform parties for matchmaking. You can't party up with people on other platforms for ranked play and they would need to implement an account system specifically for Rocket League in order to do that.
It's still awesome that this is happening, but I think some people will assume this means they can play with their friends on PS4/PC when in this case that unfortunately isn't true.
It's still awesome that this is happening, but I think some people will assume this means they can play with their friends on PS4/PC when in this case that unfortunately isn't true.
dave is ok
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You can't do matchmaking between platforms, but you can join custom games with them.
If you had 8 friends across different platforms you could all join the same room for 4v4.
You can play against them or in your team but parties ain't happening unless they do a own system inside the game.
BRocknRolla
Member
Yeah it would...
I honestly have serious doubts though that this goes anywhere beyond generally smaller team titles. I mean, it isn't even happening here yet.
Don't see anything about Rocket League support PS4-X1-PC play in their blog, but the fact that Microsoft is finally opening up to this is huge. I guess they're seeing the trend of games like SFV, Paragon & FFXIV being only PS4/PC with cross-play & they want in on that too. Maybe the next generation will truly be device agnostic.
EDIT: Also just realized that this opens up Xbox One-Steam play instead of just Xbox One-Windows 10. This is such good news.
EDIT 2: They're also supporting MonoGame, which means Axiom Verge will come to the Xbox One. More good news.
EDIT: Also just realized that this opens up Xbox One-Steam play instead of just Xbox One-Windows 10. This is such good news.
EDIT 2: They're also supporting MonoGame, which means Axiom Verge will come to the Xbox One. More good news.
I actually didn't know that, and that's cool, but most people want to team up with their friends for matchmaking and right now that isn't possible. And it probably won't ever be, because setting up an account system for Rocket League would be a shitload of work.
You could randomly match up against someone on another platform, but you can't actually team up together and go into the same matchmaking pool.
AwesomeMeat
PossumMeat
What a save!
Good on Microsoft for allowing this. It needed to be done. I play primarily on PC so having more people is always a good thing.
My guess is PS4/XBO cross play will not be in. PC and XBO. PC and PS4.
EDIT: Yeah, based on the article that seems current.
Good on Microsoft for allowing this. It needed to be done. I play primarily on PC so having more people is always a good thing.
My guess is PS4/XBO cross play will not be in. PC and XBO. PC and PS4.
EDIT: Yeah, based on the article that seems current.
Aricle said:
You can do that now, through the PC Xbox app
I mean to a person who is playing on steam and not through a MS account. I don't think he is running Win10 either.
AwesomeMeat
PossumMeat
Probably not. It will probably work exactly the way that the PS4/PC works. You can chat with other PC users but only send the regular "nice shot" etc commands back and forth.
well in terms of network, both are terrible! Union of the trash and garbage, what a beautiful day :')
I think that even if you are playing on steam, you can have an Xbox party chat going.
But yeah, win10 is a bit of a gate atm.
Noisepurge
Member
others have tried, so the "more news later" part on PS4 doesn't sound very promising yet
maybe they can just make it PS4&PC and X1&PC
Yeah. I play with him on Steam but if I could get that same experience from my couch I would much rather do that.
Ninja Sharingan
Banned
Based microsoft...whats happening???
SixStringPsycho
Member
Every game should do this. Its the better way for a comunity to play together.
Big developers want to do it too. So many stories of where a 360 and PS3 version of a AAA title was working cross plat and MS said "nope".
IIRC this is also the reason why the One and 360 didn't get FFIV. Square wanted cross play between all versions, MS wanted the 360 and One to be on their own servers, Square was like "nah"
So I imagine soon the One might be getting FFIV.
Basically third parties all want this in theory because it means all of your customers can play together, you don't have to worry about population splits, etc.
FaintDeftone
Junior Member
I really hope Sony jumps on-board. No longer will I have to argue with my friends to buy the version of that hot new multiplayer game on the console I prefer.
This is for 1 game though, right? Rocket League.
Gtagentleman
Member
Hey Nintendo, join the party dont be a loner!
edit: I was wrong, Nintendo does have crossplay
edit: I was wrong, Nintendo does have crossplay
They announced it's for everyone. No way that they only give something that only indie devs can use but not AAA. Industry just doesn't work that way.
Nintendo joined the party back in 2006, you've always been able to do crossplat on Nintendo hardware, and they iterated again recently that developers are allowed to do it.
Gtagentleman
Member
AAA devs dont give 2 shits about crossplay, too much work
I was talking about cross-not-same-company-platform-multiplayer
It's not too much work at the base engine level. Square already does it. Other companies wanted to do it but had to cut it due to politics. Now that political rule is gone. Defiance, for example, was demoed at E3 with PS3 and 360 kiosks playing with each other.
So was I. There were Wii games that that had Wii and PC version crossplay. Pure Chess on the Wii U allows you to play games against PC and PSN and mobile users. Nintendo has not blocked anyone from crossplay.
Gtagentleman
Member
Well TIL, edited the original post.
For now, yes. It remains to be seen if this will be used by other games going forward.
Gtagentleman
Member
PS4 is happening