December 10th, 2024 Livestream
Q&A: Will the Console Release delay upcoming Patches?
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- Features > Possible Features > Console Release
- Features > Multiplayer > Crossplay
- Satisfactory Updates > Released > Satisfactory 1.0
- Satisfactory Updates > Speculative > Satisfactory 1.1
Transcript
will the console release delay upcoming patches SL hot fixes for PC because of the required validation for xboxplaystation no if we don't do crossplay which we're leaning to what not doing yeah because this is this is a thing we talk can't we solidify no at this point question not confirm question I mean we don't know so so no we can't we can't we can't decide for the team open question to okay listen you you just actually told us we have a [ __ ] ton cooking internally which is true so why not make it easier for ourselves anyone internally on the stream right now listening and just nail this as a know right now they can crossplay between PS5 and Xbox just fine console PC please please I'm sure the team would I'm sure the team would really love if, we just decided things for the game on stream without their knowing I'm not even joking I'm at this point I'm pretty sure some of them would like oh thank God okay this meeting is canceled yeah on top of the eight gazillion other meetings but the, the long answer to this question is that, whether so I guess it's kind of not really related to it but it part is Kid Next because like crossplay between PC and console, would require that the PC version need to be in parody with the console version and, console has a lot of certification processes so like on Console we can't just upload a build and then click live it has to go through their certification process and they have to validate the build and and and all that stuff to make sure that like we're like it hasn't have it doesn't have anything to do with QA which a lot of people think it does it has more to do with like that Playstation or Xbox feel that we are representing their branding in a correct way in our game so for instance you can't just have like Xbox logos or the controller logos or whatever in in however you want they have to conform to how they want it to be like the way they want to and they need to verify this in every single build and, having parody between PC and console means that as soon you can't push PC builds until it's verified on console and the PC build is done like on the same day as we verified ourselves essentially, so when we've talked about crossplay, we've always leaned against not doing that because we think it would suck to have to constantly wait for PC so like if we if we find like if we push like a patch and we find like a bug like we could essentially fix that in the same week on PC but not that's not the case for console and, it sucks that like the PC players would be like hindered by this and and like satisfactory is not a game that requires like a big player base you know to be able to function like it makes sense for you know Call of Duty or any of the other games where they actually requ or fortnite or whatever where they need to have like many players so you get get better matchmaking right satisfactory that's not the case so there's not real need for crossplay other than that it would be nice to be able to play with your friends on PC on Xbox or whatever, but I think there's a lot of headache that comes with it so, we are leaning towards not doing crossplay between PC and console but not fully decided I guess, crossplay between console I think is something that this does not affect that so that might still happen, so yeah