Re: Why is there no Console Only Cross-Play?

Playstation and XBox only mode should be a thing based on how easy it to hack on PC

did a search and sorted most recent

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=battlefield+2042+cheaters&sp=CAI%253D

@scottfernaaysFirst of all nobody really asked DICE/EA to connect PC and consoles. The community wanted consoles to play together. I would leave open the possiblity for consoles to join PC but without aim-assist (so de facto forcing them to play with mnk against PC).

well im sure someone asked lol.  tried going no crossplay and couldnt get a game started,  But getting killed by people who know exactly where you are before they see you is getting old.  I am by no means a great  player but watching these hack videos puts things in perspective.  Getting headshot 200 meters out by someone with a pistol and your hiding behind foliage.  I wish i could get aim assist to work , though i dont see how that would compare to hitboxes and no wall hacks.  I can accept i might be a trash player and would be willing to give up up any assists if they could get rid of hacks.

@scottfernaays Sorry to tell you my man but almost all "download cheats" videos you can find on youtube for any currently maintained PC game are fake. Almost all of them use clips from the game's beta or when it first released before all the cheats were patched out, and the files linked in the description are usually malware to infect your computer or give you a backdoor. Get BF2042 on PC and try downloading any one of those you linked and let me know how it works out XD. Not to say there aren't cheats, but they are few and far between.

I'd argue its actually easier to "cheat" on console in any currently maintained game like BF2042 or COD MW2 because you can very easily and legally buy a Cronus, Zenpack, or Xim from online or even GameStop to eliminate all recoil and abuse the game's aim assist for controllers (which is not possible on PC) with absolutely no chance of ever getting banned for it since they are "peripherals" and not actually modifying the game's software or injecting new code. And those can always be used on any console game, so once you've bought one you're hooked up for life.

On the point of crossplay, it was largely created for PC games in the first place, since multiplayer populations in games on PC ALWAYS die out exponentially faster than consoles, probably because its ALOT easier to get games for much cheaper on PC (and online connectivity is free) so people move onto new things alot faster, unlike consoles which are almost always a full price purchase that you have to stack a multiplayer subscription on top of, so you wanna get your money's worth. Hell, load up any older COD on console and you can find a lobby in seconds, on PC most of them are totally dead past ColdWar. BF fairs a bit better on PC for older titles, but not by much.

So as a PC gamer  who has personally seen time and again multiplayer games I buy at launch go dead within 5-6 months, crossplay is a godsend, and I hope companies keep on enforcing the "all or nothing" mentality for it.

As for why I choose PC if I know dying MP for games on it used to be an issue, answer's simple: Aside from being able to get other games cheaper like I said, its more cost efficient and convenient for me. I can drop a load of money upfront on a good PC that I will use daily for other normal PC and work tasks, a great monitor/desk setup is cheaper than a great TV/sound system setup for a console (keyword great, not just ok), can play games on it from almost all publishers without having to pay a monthly subscription for online access, and can even keep using it whenever a new generation of consoles comes out, so I save more money by not having to re-buy consoles when they refresh.

PC's situation is the same, with crossplay off you can't find a match.

So matchmaking is broken because there are thousands players on steam every hour.

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@NikkMann149 wrote:

 Sorry to tell you my man but almost all "download cheats" videos you can find on youtube for any currently maintained PC game are fake. Almost all of them use clips from the game's beta or when it first released before all the cheats were patched out, and the files linked in the description are usually malware to infect your computer or give you a backdoor. Get BF2042 on PC and try downloading any one of those you linked and let me know how it works out XD. Not to say there aren't cheats, but they are few and far between.

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While the links for cheats on youtube might be bad. Don't let that fool you into thinking there aren't plenty of cheats available, and in use for the current BF2042 and many other PC titles. Youtube just isn't the place cheaters are getting them.

@Luke88gw No its because most ppl play with crossplay on. If you turn crossplay off you are limited to only the other ppl with crossplay off. So steam may show 5000 players, but if 4900 are using crossplay and you turn crossplay off, thats only a pool of 100 players for you to play with. It the same on consoles.

@DigitalHype Yep, as with any game. But they're not as easy to find as the other guy tried to make them out to be. 

Unless its primetime you can't find a full lobby for most gamemodes on westcoast with crossplay... theres just not enough people to turn it off.

Obviously this is really easy to fix and everybody who was on and played when Dice made Console crossplay only for a couple of hours had a really good time. But everybody at Dice plays on PC and wants their free kills.