Re: Console only crossplay for PS5/Series S/X with PC opt in like Apex
@1Hairy-Gorilla Could you link that tweet here?
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@carsono311 I can't as no idea how lol not into social media that much but can link you a forum post with the said tweet?
@1Hairy-GorillaOkay, that really just reads that there have to be two options for cross-play (full on or full off) and that EA DICE are investigating a third option...
Which makes sense, when you consider the ongoing technical testing related to cross-play that they are doing. I would bet that console-only cross-play is exactly what EA DICE are working towards, if they don't already have it down...Not sure where you getting that, the dev poster on resetera said making 3 options wouldn't make sense or words to that effect.
@ragnarok013 Like their Anti-cheat in BFV? No anti-cheat is a silver bullet ppl wont get caught ect why put that onto console users? If you get caught cheating on console you got a brick on PC cheat makers give codes if caught that's how confident they are, and back up and running in hours. There will never be level playing field vs PC and consoles, Walled garden vs open source. Out cry when UWP was the answer to alot of cheating, the kernel level anti-cheat got backlash ect.
You can't run 3rd party aps on console, you can on PC with little comeback if caught. All it is about is making 2 platforms suffer to get more ££. I don't see any other reason to force PC onto consoles when PC games die out faster due to cheating. I'm sure this hasn't improved in 10 years or so I stopped.
@1Hairy-Gorilla Microsoft is adding their Pluton security chip inside future Intel and AMD CPUs. Once that happens PC processors will be a lot more like console CPUs and only run signed software code with proper encryption keys.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/17/21571069/microsoft-pluton-processor-security-windows-pc
Intel is also working on encrypting everything stored in RAM, so that will block further cheating.
https://threatpost.com/intel-encryption-security-ice-lake-chips/160083/
Once those two things are added, maybe no more cheating on PC, but I remain sceptical given PC's large hardware selection and build configurations. Someone will probably find a bug on PC and still figure out how to cheat.There will be ways around it and more than likely can be disabled by the end user if wanted
@OskooI_007 Only a few issues I can see... Anytime MS tries something they're hit with backlash and step back UWP, only windows 11 features now windows 10 ect. That tech still not in chips for the foreseeable future, and even if they had them now, no game maker is going to release a game that only runs on them CPU's so its useless.
@1Hairy-Gorilla I agree, encrypted CPUs for PCs are still years away from competition. Which is why I'm buying BF2042 on PlayStation 5. It already had an encrypted CPU that stops cheating. 🙂
@OskooI_007 Issue there is I'm Xbox and we get forced into crossplay without being able to disable it. Apex/Warzone can't be turned off but on PS you can.
Still hoping they see sense and allow PS5/Xbox S/X only.
- @1Hairy-Gorilla Console vs console crossplay sounds like the best option for sure. DICE did say Xbox players will have the option to disable crossplay. Hopefully there's a menu option for it in the game's menu, because I heard disabling crossplay in Xbox system settings doesn't work.
@OskooI_007 Well they said that about Apex and you can technically turn if off for warzone aswell (can't get past the menu) lol.
Yeah you can brute force no crossplay in your account, issue there is few know you can turn off crossplay and fewer than that know you can do it at account level.
