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4 years ago
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Cross gen play with pc

Wondeing if BF portal will have crossgen play with ps4/xbox? if not then could you make it so pc players can join the smaller 64 player lobby's to play with last gen consoles?, so keep old gen console players with 64 players and smaller maps but let new gen/pc decide. id like to play with my friend even if its only in portal, I feel like it would be nice to play the smaller maps and 64 player lobbies if people want 

  • @Lightparadox963

    Cross-play in general will be limited in BF2042, no matter what you play. If it's All out Warfare (multiplayer), Portal or Hazard Zone.

    It's only New-gen consoles + PC, and Old-gen consoles are seperate.

    If you have friends on New-gen consoles while you play on Old-gen, you can still play with each other if your friends play the Old-gen version on their New-gen console.

    As BF2042 comes with a Cross-gen bundle, they can install both game versions on the New-gen console and therefore can choose what application they wanna start.

    If they start the Old-gen one, they'll be limited to the 64 players too as it's about the game version you run and not about the console. 😉

    Greets,

    Travis 

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  • @Lightparadox963

    Cross-play in general will be limited in BF2042, no matter what you play. If it's All out Warfare (multiplayer), Portal or Hazard Zone.

    It's only New-gen consoles + PC, and Old-gen consoles are seperate.

    If you have friends on New-gen consoles while you play on Old-gen, you can still play with each other if your friends play the Old-gen version on their New-gen console.

    As BF2042 comes with a Cross-gen bundle, they can install both game versions on the New-gen console and therefore can choose what application they wanna start.

    If they start the Old-gen one, they'll be limited to the 64 players too as it's about the game version you run and not about the console. 😉

    Greets,

    Travis 

  • @carsono311 i want to know if why cant they make it so we pc players join their lobbies, we can run smaller maps no problem, all there needs to be is an option for pc and new gen players to play last gen lobbies. it would make a lot of people happy to play with there friend without having to get two versions(I'm on pc so I can only get pc version anyway) and if that's not an option for normal multiplayer then at least portal and smaller experience should be cross play with all player bases. only restriction would be last gen cant play next gen map/lobby.
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    ragnarok013
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    4 years ago
    @Lightparadox963 Crossplay is only PC/PS5/Xbox Series X. PS4/Xbone cannot play with PC/PS4/Xbox Series X at all - just with one another even in Portal.
  • how about the other way around instead of ps4/xbox players playing with pc/xbox x players, pc/ps5/xbox x with ps4 and xbox server/lobbies? 

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    ragnarok013
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    4 years ago

    @Lightparadox963 wrote:

    how about the other way around instead of ps4/xbox players playing with pc/xbox x players, pc/ps5/xbox x with ps4 and xbox server/lobbies? 


    @Lightparadox963 That is not possible due to hardware limitations of last gen consoles so last gen can only play with last gen on crossplay while current gen consoles and PC can all play together without last gen console with crossplay even if they want to join a server with player numbers that last gen could play. Essentially last gen are cordoned off together in a separate walled garden.

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