May 19th, 2020 Livestream Q&A: Will crossplay launch with the Steam release?

May 19th, 2020 Livestream

Q&A: Will crossplay launch with the Steam release?

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and yeah we'll and the question here is will crossplay launch with the steam release and the answer is hopefully yes I think so I don't know I haven't worked on it I don't know we are running and testing crossplay internally right now so like I we are, we are able to start sessions on the platform and join them and so on so it's like yeah but there is polish thing still yeah it's like just this morning like small things for steam like adding so you in your friends list can see your friend if he's in a multiplayer session with another friend that's a kind of new steam api thing that's mo all the games doesn't support I don't know many new ones even does it but if if you are in the same multiplayer session you will actually group together in your friend list and say that hey you two are playing together and you can see how many other people are in that game and it's like it's cool things to have and it's like polish that we really want for for the steam release and it's like but first is yes the robust multiplayer we are now in the state where we can actually start working on all those cooler and better like expected yeah well I'm stoked because I've worked a lot on on like networking stuff in general and we've been talking about having like a proper session system for a long time so it feels good having that in the game finally yes