Any news about CrossPlay in MP? Do you want it?

Low FPS bad. Too high FPS also bad.

Do you know of a way to get consoles up to 60 FPS or so?

If no, then do you mind playing at 30 FPS?

I hope it is figured out, because I would like it also. But, not at the cost of the dreaded "Rubber-Band Man".



P.S.  For those too young, "The Midnight Special" was the shizzz...

Sounds good on paper, but, nope, I don't want it. Mainly because of the console certification process. It'd likely mean delaying patches and updates for PC and running things with the lowest common denominator.

Patches have always been delayed with Bioware for consoles anyway haven't they?

Also note that having cross-platform play does not actually mean things NEED to be delayed anyway. All it means is that in the matchmaking process it respects the version number. It already does this as evidenced by the number of times people thought there were no players but they simply didn't have all the dlc installed.

I think cross platform play would be good, it would unite the community more. However its not essential and corporate politics make me pretty sure that it is quite unlikely.

I recently heard that Gears 4 is going to have cross platform multiplayer. Of course they say that now, you never know if they will maintain their promise. But you know, I was a bit surprised.
I'd be interested, can't say if it's a bad or good thing. I remember when back in the day rumors about cross platform for BF3 where on the air, I was really interested on that too, ofc it never happened.

EDIT: Honestly, not sure if it's gonna happen though. You may have Microsoft to cooperate on both PC and Xbox, but Microsoft AND Sony? naaaah, that's definitely not happening.

Economics will force their hand.

Especially with Microsoft finally getting Xbox and PC together.

When more people see this and assuming Sony console sales lag in comparison to Xbox, they Wil come around.

Hopefully for the betterment of us all.

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Microsoft is on board with platform cross play. At least, in the Win 10 world. So I can see console + PC gamers playing together in the Microsoft controlled echo system.

Sony, like MS, wants to control their players' online activities. At the moment, PS4 users are captives and I doubt Sony wants them to experience gaming outside their echo system.

Technically, net connectivity between all three platforms can be done. However, outside of co-op play, that is player team vs team matches, game load times can easily become problematic due to either physical game load times, waiting for other other team to fill up, players with faster or slower game units, internet speed.. etc. BF3 and BF4 gamers  can tell you a few stories regarding load times. PvP match design is key, I think.

Perhaps the Horde mode will be similar to the RIFT MMO where players are grouped by level (ie: 1-5, 6-10... etc) and have access to HORDE battles suitable to their assigned competence and slot availability.

We'll just have to wait and see.

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Yeah, P2P is cheaper and if done right works great. BioWare hasn't done it right yet. They put to much on the host and tie to much to that.

As oddball as it is go look at Dead Island, or Dying Island for a more recent example. Those games run entirely on P2P non-dedicated servers. And no amount of lag fucks up the zombies you see. Hell the game even will do slow-mo as you cut a zombies head off but doesn't effect other players games. They just see you hack it off normal speed.

When it comes to Co-op stuff, game companys need to realize the game you play - that you see - needs to play like single player regardless of lag. When you kill something you kill it, and then it sends that out to the host and updates for everyone. Right now theres to many checks and 'is this ok?' from everyone to the server that you hit the lag issues that're designed for PvP - not co-op. Where it only has to deal with human players, not a bunch of AI.

It's entirely possible they've figured that out like plenty of other companys have over the years and we'll have a nice experience where lag screws with us. Or ehh, or not and we'll get DAI jank. My money is sadly on DAI jank, but one can hope.

edit: Destiny, also btw works entirely off P2P. It does some bizar as host-swap every 2-3 minutes which is just some weird freaky voodoo magic that causes some weird shit in PvP. But in the co-op side as far as the games concerned your playing single player till loot shits its self out. Works good for all that.

edit: the editing: Not as bad as Half-Life back in the day. They had frames tied intrinsically in with a persons ping lol. It was freakin' horrendous. That maaay of been Counter-Strike mod it's self... don't think so though. Anyway, eventually they updated it so your FPS wasn't tied to your connection with a server and all was right in the world. Bad F2P co-op reminds me of that. They're tying things down to connection and response times to hosts that shouldn't be.

After seeing the bullshit console pulled off with their exclusivity agreements on the multi-platform title Evolve I swore to not buy multi-platform games anymore, but what can you do if it's a beloved franchise that I enjoyed so much as Mass Effect.

It's just there to coerce buyers into sticking to a system. "We have the cool stuff on our channel". There is only advantage to Sony or Microsoft when people fall for it.

Hope you're not thinking of Gaijin's War Thunder, since that's a Russian company. It has PC/PS4 crossplay. 

I for once wouldn't mind delayed patches in exchange for Crossplay.