March 24th, 2020
Q&A: How will we crossplay?
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Snutt
dope congratulations on those item rewards y'all yeah so jump in the next one folks
Jace
and yeah so serious question how will we cross play i don't actually know the insides announced yet um
Snutt
Yeah, I don't know.
I mean, I know what we're shooting for, but we're still kind of figuring out what works and what doesn't.
It's both in terms of what is supported in each API, because Epic has really good support when it comes to interlocking with Steam.
So, but it all comes down to like, okay, it's also aspect as to like, okay, but what's the easiest way for someone who wants to play with Steam friends?
Like, is it easier to connect with Steam on my end?
Or is it easier if they log in like with an Epic account or like all these different questions that comes up with like UX and that is one aspect.
And as I mentioned before, the technical actually like implementing the API is another thing.
and all these different Steam features that exist with cloud saves and blah, blah, blah, blah on Steam's end, because we have to strip the different versions.
And it's also internally a big thing for us to be able to like, because we have a build machine that automatically, we essentially push a switch and it builds a certain version of the game for us and it pushes it to the server that can distribute it via Epic and blah, blah,
blah.
Snutt
And we also needed to do a bunch of work so that we can be like, OK, build the Steam version, build the Epic version.
And that's supposed to be like, OK, I'm going to strip out all the Epic stuff from the Epic version.
I'm going to strip out the Steam stuff from the Epic version.
Did I say it the wrong way?
Whatever.
So you get the right version as well when you're building in that configuration and whatnot.
So that's also a big, big part of why it's taking time, essentially.
Because that needs to be in place for us before we can actually start rolling out anything.
So yeah, lengthy answer to, I guess, a fairly easy...
Jace
But it's
Snutt
informative.
Yeah.