There's also going to be an option to connect directly to an IP address, circumventing sort of all these services that are in place to sort of make connectivity seamless.

This is going to require a bit of knowledge and require a bit of technical and networking knowledge, as you will need to sort of connect manually in the console, but we figured that we'd add this option in case, you know, Steams or Epic services go down and, you know, if you are a bit savvy and can manage.