Steam - Gamepass crossplay

[DrLegit]

Can the devs enable the ability to play with our friends who have the game on PC but on different stores

[Klaerbgloiu]

+1

[Robirda]

Originally posted by DrLegit:

Can the devs enable the ability to play with our friends who have the game on PC but on different stores

The release on console mentioned specifically that so far there is no cross-play available, but that it might be in the future.

If it happens they will announce it, you can count on that - but in the meantime, sorry, not possible - yet, at least. They have a lot on their plates just now, I know it's difficult, but please try to be patient, yes?

Maybe see if you can get your friends with the pc copy to fire up their x-box to play with you - only the host needs to have a copy of the game, I think? :-)

[Wolf9]

I'm not playing multiplayer, but I thought, the PC players (not cross platforms) with game from different stores can play together. Just version must be exactly the same.

[DrLegit]

Originally posted by Wolf9:

I'm not playing multiplayer, but I thought, the PC players (not cross platforms) with game from different stores can play together. Just version must be exactly the same.

unfortunaly both myself and my friend are on pc. one steam, one gamepass. we cant play together

[Wolf9]

Originally posted by DrLegit:

Originally posted by Wolf9:

I'm not playing multiplayer, but I thought, the PC players (not cross platforms) with game from different stores can play together. Just version must be exactly the same.

unfortunaly both myself and my friend are on pc. one steam, one gamepass. we cant play together

Well, I will copy some other player's text from another forum. Hope I'm not violating some rules:

"I get my games from GOG, my friends from Steam. After reading some incomplete instructions online, we were able to put the pieces together yesterday and play successfully.

These were the necessary steps in our case:
1. All players ensure that port 7777 is forwarded on their router (how to)
2. Steam players must start the game's EXE directly (...\Steam\steamapps\common\The Planet Crafter\Planet Crafter.exe) from the game folder (NOT via Steam). The reason is: if you start the game via Steam, you don't have the option to host/join via IP address.
3. The host opens a game and shares their public IP address with the other players.
4. The others can join using the IP address and port 7777.

However, we have noticed the following problems:
Logically, the host must remain online to play since there is no dedicated server. Planet Crafter does not store a copy of the save game for each player. If the others want to continue playing without the original host, the save game must be shared by the host (where to find it) with the other players.

However sharing savegames brings it's own problems (switched up inventories etc.) and you have to manually edit the savegame to make it work. So I don't recommend it."

[prtmh]

Originally posted by Wolf9:

Originally posted by DrLegit:

unfortunaly both myself and my friend are on pc. one steam, one gamepass. we cant play together

Well, I will copy some other player's text from another forum. Hope I'm not violating some rules:

"I get my games from GOG, my friends from Steam. After reading some incomplete instructions online, we were able to put the pieces together yesterday and play successfully.

These were the necessary steps in our case:
1. All players ensure that port 7777 is forwarded on their router (how to)
2. Steam players must start the game's EXE directly (...\Steam\steamapps\common\The Planet Crafter\Planet Crafter.exe) from the game folder (NOT via Steam). The reason is: if you start the game via Steam, you don't have the option to host/join via IP address.
3. The host opens a game and shares their public IP address with the other players.
4. The others can join using the IP address and port 7777.

However, we have noticed the following problems:
Logically, the host must remain online to play since there is no dedicated server. Planet Crafter does not store a copy of the save game for each player. If the others want to continue playing without the original host, the save game must be shared by the host (where to find it) with the other players.

However sharing savegames brings it's own problems (switched up inventories etc.) and you have to manually edit the savegame to make it work. So I don't recommend it."

This may still work for gog and steam play together but OP said gamepass crossplay which for now can't be done.
The game pass pc version is restricted by the same rules as consoles unfortunately and can't crossplay with steam.
If they ever get the technological and legal stuff to work in the future, who knows, maybe.