November 24th, 2023 Video

Online integration

https://youtube.com/embed/UW1uFElp7ZE?autoplay=1&start=730&end=799

Topics

• Features > Multiplayer
• Satisfactory Updates > Released > Satisfactory Update 8

Transcript

if you remember a couple of weeks ago I posted a video where I mentioned that the online integration for satisfactory is a bit working progress and update we've had to, sort of rework the online integration for the game, the online integration is the stuff that handles you know like you're populating your friends list on Steam and you know connecting to to Epic and logging you in all that stuff so yeah that system has been sort of reworked in update 8 it was still a bit working progress when we left off and it's a bit working progress on the Early Access Branch right now so next week we're going to push a patch with an update to the online integration so one thing we've done in the new online integration is that we now make it so that on Steam, epic online services will be opt in from now on if you don't know what epic online services are it's essentially the service used to be able to do handle connectivity and you know be able to play with your friends, and enable crossplay I think that's the biggest aspect really and now you're going to be able to opt out of that if you want to so if you're on Steam you can still play with your steam friends but you can only play with your steam friends if you opt out of this and if you want to play crossplay you can opt into the on on Epic online services and be able to play with both Steam and epic USU so there it's essentially more feature Rich if you opt into the online epic online services, but now the option is there at least and another