Hey everyone,
Origin and Steam will not be able to play online together. When crossplay is introduced later in development, then all platforms can play together in supported crossplay modes (Social Play and Two-Player Career modes)
-rephii
@TheOGReeceTTV wrote:
@HempyjrThey didn't miss anything. It was announced that this was delayed all the way back at the start of May as the team they'd partnered with to deliver crossplay were based in Ukraine. Is it that hard to do your research before commenting...
https://racinggames.gg/f1/crossplay-confirmed-as-post-launch-feature-for-f1-22/
This article is from April and was leaked even before the interview in May - https://www.xfire.com/f1-2022-small-internal-delay-supercars-cut/
To be fair, whilst nobody should have expected crossplay between PlayStation, XBOX and PC at launch, I don't think there was any warning at all that PC players on Steam and Origin wouldn't have been able to race each other?
@TheOGReeceTTV wrote:
@Ultrasonic_77Well they only spoke of cross gen multiplayer between the different generation of consoles. This lead me to believe that pc players would only be able to play together regardless of platform when crossplay releases.
I guess not everybody read into it that way!
I think you're probably in a vary small minority with that interpretation to be honest. The reason being the cross-gen element is just things staying exactly the same as F1 2021, where all PC players can also play together in 21 but not 22. Ultimately the number of people posting in this thread and others highlights that this certainly wasn't expected pre-launch. By contrast I don't recall anyone posting to say they were surprised cross-platform play wasn't in the game at launch.
@Ultrasonic_77 wrote:By contrast I don't recall anyone posting to say they were surprised cross-platform play wasn't in the game at launch.
Great observation. The lack of crossplay at launch was reasonably well communicated and I do remember a handful of reviews picking it up. This forest fire still happening just goes to show how detached from the industry this interpretation is – that interoperability between glorified storefronts fits in the "crossplay" definition.
