Is there any difference between the steam version and the Microsoft store version?

[yeggsly]

Other than achievements, I don't care about those.

Thanks in advance for any answers.

[Jade]

its on steam thats the biggest advantage

[Hardy]

Possibly also the way progress is saved in the cloud. Also, it's yest another studio that helped devs convert the game to Steam version, so who knows what else. It may mean that even if UWP version worked fine on a particular PC, Steam version may behave differently. Fortunately there are Steam refunds.

[OVALLODA]

Originally posted by Jade:

its on steam thats the biggest advantage

lmao

[l-xXx-l]

Possible modding? Still not sure how they managed to port from uwp and why there is source sdk listed on store page, need wait for release.
There is almost no difference except trading cards and achievements.its the same.
Edit no source sdk listed now, was listed when 5hey added store page, rip modding.

[I Am Groot]

Originally posted by Jade:

its on steam thats the biggest advantage

??what??

Originally posted by Hardy:

Possibly also the way progress is saved in the cloud. Also, it's yest another studio that helped devs convert the game to Steam version, so who knows what else. It may mean that even if UWP version worked fine on a particular PC, Steam version may behave differently. Fortunately there are Steam refunds.

Store and Xbox has cloud save, and can transfer progress, while Steam version can't transfer(but other games from Xbox on Steam can???)
Steam version basically have to be the same with Xbox/Store version to crossplay. They can be different on how the game engine executed, but not the whole game and engine. Update/Patch/Content must be in-synced.

Originally posted by l-xXx-l:

Possible modding? Still not sure how they managed to port from uwp and why there is source sdk listed on store page, need wait for release.
There is almost no difference except trading cards and achievements.its the same.
Edit no source sdk listed now, was listed when 5hey added store page, rip modding.

modding an online game will get you banned. Don't. The online "modding" you can do is to design paint and change car setup, in-game.
Benefits of Steam? it is on Steam and trading cars. Downside: Store version is Xbox play anywhere, meaning buy 1 get 2: Store version and Xbox version.
They only need to upgrade there source-code to adapt win32 shipping instead of uwp shipping.
MS has document on migrating applications.(for developer). games mostly runs on its own engine which is not depending on the system. The only concern is how do they execute that engine on the platform, meaning the shipping.
The game itself is on MS Windows 8-10 environments already(UWP exists since Windows 8, Xbox runs on heavily modified Windows 10), meaning porting to win32 version is easier: MS Xbox is running the "porting to Windows" war with Sony recently. But coming from Store to Steam is kinda extra move because it's Windows already. Only things I can think of are that Xbox wants more players and money from trendy game Forza.

[LuckyAdmiral]

i played it on MC store never bought it going to buy it here i dont like my games being on diff apps but you can still play with xbox and MC store users so it will be the same

[🅵🆁🅴🅳🅴🆁🅸🅺]

To me the biggest advantage is I can finally share the experience with my Steam contacts with Steam Overlay. Trying to get your contacts to join sessions on Microsoft Store without Steam services was a pain. And the Steam release is a perfect opportunity to start a new game from scratch to try and earn the new achivements.

[Paradise Decay]

Biggest advantage for me is VorpX is not block on Steam like it is on the Microsoft store, so will be able to try to see if it works in VR.