Why is there no Console Only Cross-Play?
We should get console crossplay only so me and my friend can play together without being killed every 2 seconds by some xtreme fast pcplayer.
they have unfair advantages over console players… ...
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@RicksPvp Not from my experience. Most are console and the Xbox have a clear advantage over PC. I can rarely kill an xbox player in a one-on-one scenario. My bullets dont register or they have no recoil or aim assist.
Why not have just two modes:
1 - CrossPlay off - Xbox and Playstation only (why divide as they are both controllers)
2- CrossPlay on - Xbox, Playstation, and PC
At this point, there is no way Dice can remove PC from console as that runs the risk of "Waiting for Players" death spiral for every platform.
At best, this could be implemented after Season 1 launches this summer with the resulting higher player counts. Otherwise the only other option being immediate Free to Play, which gets complicated...
- @DeepSixxxx Currently Crossplay is a necessity. The game has no longer the player numbers to make matchmaking work without Crossplay.
- @kregora I'm not 100%, but I think CrossPlay off is Xbox console only, or Playstation console only. It is currently three groups of players, so making it two groups of players would increase the player numbers for "CrossPlay off by perhaps as much as 50% if you combine Playstation and Xbox Players.
At some point before Season 1 releases in "Summer", Dice might have to drop 128 player modes on console and that would force older consoles players with newer console players, and again increase the game mode player count. I think this could happen, as right now letting new console players pick 64 vs 128 is only creating more player count issues as it spreads players even thinner by having twice as many game mode options for the same game types...
Dice/EA have a inevitable player death spiral issue right now, due mainly to launching the game 6 months too early while it was near "Tech Bankruptcy" due to the impossible task of making any BF game a current fad BR game, and then attempt the second near impossible task of switching the BR game back to a classic BF game "with all hands on deck" over a short few months before launch...¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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