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4 years ago

BF 2042 - Can a PS5 player join a friend who’s playing a match on PS4?

Hello everyone! First post here. I’m happy to see a modern take coming back to the BF series. Me and three other friends play BF V on PlayStation. Two of us are on PS4s and the other two on PS5. My ...

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IIPrest0nII

Retired Hero

4 years ago

@da_dingBAT Hey,

According to the latest Battlefield Briefing: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Battlefield-Announcements/Battlefield-Briefing-Answering-Your-Reveal-Questions/td-p/10497692

Cross-play will work in the following way:

Right now, we’d like to give you an understanding of what we’re looking to achieve as final functionality beyond the Technical Playtest, so here is an overview of what you can expect that to look like:

PC, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation®5 system (PC and console can opt-out from playing together)
Xbox One and PlayStation®4 systems

In other words, cross-play will be available only between past-gen consoles and between current gen consoles. So, if you're on PS5, you won't be able to play with players that are on PS4.

Prep768
4 years ago
Tbh, I can't believe that they're not having the option to play cross gen.
I get that ps4s would struggle with the larger server population BUT what's the issue with ps5s dropping down to smaller server numbers?
Also this now offers a dilemma for me personally as most of the people I play with are on ps4. Had to put on hold selling my PS4 now, suppose it saves me a bit of £.
One question though. I buy the ps4 gold addition, can I pop that in my Ps5 and play 128 servers?
- Trokey66
  4 years ago
  @Prep768 I wonder that too, indeed does it matter whether we buy it for 4 or 5 or do we need 2 copies? (not doing that!)
  - CloudMcRip
    4 years ago
    @Trokey66 yes you need two copies because the PS4 and PS5 are two different versions even that EA is claiming it will only affect "Playernumbers" and "Mapsizes". You can view like something back in 2013 when Battlefield 4 got released, EA was also Releasing a PS3 version and a PS4 version. PS3 version had also lower Playercounts and if I remember correctly changed maps.