If game pass crossplay with steam isn't fixed, I'm probably going to ask for a refund

[ironsgh]

As the title says, I'm probably going to ask for a refund. All of my friends are playing on xbox and game pass.

This was advertised as having crossplay with PC and xbox out the gate, with possible switch and ps in the future. I would have signed up for gamepass if I'd known I couldn't connect to any of my friends.

I've connected the game to my epic account. I have connected my epic account to steam and my old xbox account. I have friended my friends on steam and my epic account.

[Mellow Geek]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Silhouette:

lol, is this why when I try to join other players online I always see the Epic Games logo beside game lobbies?

Yeah, I was wondering about that too, just found out about it. :(

[Professor Icepick]

Yo, could we get Steamworks compatibility for the multiplayer? I don't really care much about """crossplay""" with the MS Store, if it means using Epic's malware.

[Doko]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Professor Icepick:

Yo, could we get Steamworks compatibility for the multiplayer? I don't really care much about """crossplay""" with the MS Store, if it means using Epic's malware.

Yeah this is pretty much why I ain't buying it. I'd rather Steamworks over EoS and have the game borked down the line (much like KF2 was for me, since I can no longer play it in offline mode thanks to EoS update).

[nightbreed_16]

Sorry but PS cross play isn't in their plans as of right now but I am not saying it's not possible they could do it in the future.

[|TeM| Reikhardt]

Thanks for the warning about EOS inclusion in this game guys. Straight from Wishlist to Ignore.

[MoistGamer]

Ursprungligen skrivet av The Glow:

Ursprungligen skrivet av artimid:

I haven't played it yet, just have it installed.. it requires an Epic account to play? Because I just keep seeing that it only requires Epic accounts to invite Epic users, and nobody wants to play with them anyway.

I'm going to actually be angry if this requires an Epic account to play with friends from Steam or Gamepass.

From what Ive experienced it uses Epic as the middle man to broker connections between Steam and the Gamepass versions. Its so stupid.
I want to eat McDonalds, you want Burger King, so we have to eat it at Wendy's.
And then it barely works. I couldnt accept my friends Gamepass invite, but he could accept mine. Then latencys was 230ms +. I have gigabit up n down and good connection. It was making him disconnect and rejoin every 30 seconds, resetting his progress.

Who on earth has gigabit UPLOAD? I've never heard of that. I'm well aware of gigabit internet (via ethernet anyway in terms of achieving those speeds) but my upload is stilll 100. How did you get 1000m upload? Did you contact your ISP? What plan are you using. I've seriously never heard of that. You mean if you run a speedtest, it shows your DL between 800-1k AND your upload at the same? Highly suspect.

Edit: Just looked it up and google fiber actually does have 1gb up 1gb down. Turns out this is indeed possible

[Tribute JF]

We're looking to improve the cross-play process.
Currently, linking an EOS account is only required to bridge PC with Xbox friends and give them a way to invite each other. I'll admit myself, it's a tedious solution.

[Doko]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Tribute JF:

We're looking to improve the cross-play process.
Currently, linking an EOS account is only required to bridge PC with Xbox friends and give them a way to invite each other. I'll admit myself, it's a tedious solution.

I just wish you guys didn't have to go through with it, because it's thanks to EoS that I can no longer play games like Killing Floor 2 offline.

Epic has pretty much created this in a way to benefit themselves over providing what has been done before on Steam.

I'm also not a big fan of Epic trying to worm it's way into this ecosystem either, so it makes it harder to play games/want to buy any when I see things like EoS implemented.

I just wish devs worked with Valve and Steamworks on here, instead of every dev instantly jumping only towards EoS.

[Tribute JF]

Our previous games used Steamworks for online play. While it works well, it pretty much makes cross-play out of the question.
The upside of EOS is we can code the feature once, and share the code between platforms.
There is no perfect system. Hell, we even get people call Steam a malware.

This was the best option for the game. But we take all comments at heart and myself included, I'm not 100% satisfied with the current setup. I promise we'll make it better.

Currently, if cross-play is not your thing, EOS should be invisible to you.

[Doko]

That's fine, it's your choice as devs, it is yours to do as you wish.

It just means that folks like me are less inclined to approach said games that feature it (or in cases, go exclusive with Epic).

I just wish Valve worked on Steamworks more, but then again, that would cause a divide between devs using EoS and Steamworks, and then crossplay would be borked.

Though tbf, I've never really been big on crossplay myself. I'm content with playing alongside people on Steam instead of console folks.

[Asteroday]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Tribute JF:

We're looking to improve the cross-play process.
Currently, linking an EOS account is only required to bridge PC with Xbox friends and give them a way to invite each other. I'll admit myself, it's a tedious solution.

Please, can you explain me how can i invite my friend (xbox <-> steam) ? I can't understand how this epic games linking works, where in game can i find it?

[KillScreen]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Asteroday:

Please, can you explain me how can i invite my friend (xbox <-> steam) ? I can't understand how this epic games linking works, where in game can i find it?

I can explain to you how to link steam and epic. You go into your epic account on your browser. After login, on top left corner click on your nickname -> "account". On the left side menu click "connections". From there you have a page with 2 tab menus. Apps and accounts. Add your steam account there. The game should be listed in the "apps" section if the linking its correct.

[kafersaft]

Imagine starting a thread to threaten refunding a game lol

[punchobastardo]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Tribute JF:

Currently, if cross-play is not your thing, EOS should be invisible to you.

Clarification is needed, so if you just want to coop with your Steam friends, Epic Online Spyware isn't used at all (unloaded and not sending all your PC and Steam data to Timmy and the chinese at game launch) but the connection between all is being made via P2P or Steamworks?

[punchobastardo]

Ursprungligen skrivet av punchobastardo:

Ursprungligen skrivet av Tribute JF:

Currently, if cross-play is not your thing, EOS should be invisible to you.

Clarification is needed, so if you just want to coop with your Steam friends, Epic Online Spyware isn't used at all (unloaded and not sending all your PC and Steam data to Timmy and the chinese at game launch) but the connection between all is being made via P2P or Steamworks?

So, coming back to this, is the MP finally dead so that you can remove that forced crossplay BS no one uses and return to Steamworks and true P2P?