No PC crossplay option for Season 2 could be the death of BF6 (It's not hitreg.)
(Perspective from a 300 hour player.)
It's sad, but EA and DICE have literally killed battlefield. Bad decision after bad decision.
Everyone complains about hit reg, but that's not the problem. Hit reg is fine. The problem is the desync between console players and PC players. And with no way to eliminate that variable, I've seen a wide swath of players just leaving the game and uninstalling.
So many of my friend's have already uninstalled and almost all of them are because of the crossplay desync bug between PC and console players. Console players have an extreme advantage just due to the desync. They shoot you when you are well behind cover. They shoot you through smoke. Hitreg doesn't explain these things. Therefore there is no hit reg issues it's something else.
Meanwhile, from the PC perspective they were only on your screen for a millisecond and the kill log shows they shot you like 6 times. You had no time to react but somehow they had already laid you out. You get one on your screen and put half a mag into them, they 180 and insta kill you. Kill log shows them at 87 health... This isn't just lag. It's a complete and total desync between the gaming systems.
PC Cheaters are not the problem. I rarely see a PC player that i'm convinced is a cheater. But every single game a lot of my deaths are serious WTF moments, and it's always, literally, from a console player. Their desync advantage makes them unstoppable. Plus no anticheat means their modded controllers are literally aimbots. It's not fun playing against people that laser beam you across the map every single game. It's not fun when you round a corner and you die 5 steps later. You try to play stategically and EA says, nope, they are on console so they need buffs. Then EA gives them basically 25% of the recoil that PC players get. They call this "balancing".
I've resorted to just reporting these console players for cheating. I know they aren't. But I don't know how else to get EA to notice. They clearly never look at this forum, they don't look at fan sites, they don't look at steam forums, they don't look anywhere. They don't care.
Every single patch that comes and goes... no mention of this extremely widely begged for feature. But now... It's probably too late. Season 2 launch was an opportunity, and they missed it. EA and DICE killed the playerbase by not allowing crossplay off from the get go. And now, at the most pivotal moment, it's still gone completely ignored.
It's not hit reg issues. Get that out of your head. There are no hitreg issues. It's only an issue if the player you're shooting at is playing on a console.
RIP Battlefield.
