Cross Play with Mac?

[TheseLumps]

I noticed their version is 1.8.5 and mine is 2.0.0 - how can I cross play?

[Draekus]

downgrade.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2014284368

Read very carefully..

[Zen_Disaster]

Originally posted by Draekus:

downgrade.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2014284368

Read very carefully..

Yep our friend Draekus has it < Sad as it maybe, it's true to at least question their sense in doing this when you consider GBX / 2K required we lobotomize their game in the easy-to-do manner detailed by Draekus.

But it kinda stinks that the developers chose to require such nonsense of us in the first place when those of us fortunate to have played it thru during the game's earlier days around 2013-14 well we could easily & fluently play thru the game in coop combining friends running Windows and friends running macOS with no such snags at all. And no matter what legalistic bull they ran in their answers to the press they (GBX / 2K) never really answered we players who questioned their sense (or lack thereof) in screwing up the game that way <sigh>

[Nakos]

They've never even updated BL:TPS.

BL2 will run On Mac systems with post-Catalina OSs, but Gearbox/2K (apparently) stopped paying Aspyr so ... no further updates on any of it.

Even BL2 is a rev or two behind the PC versions on the Mac, but at least it still runs. If I want to do BL:TPS, I've got to swap over to Windows. I've got a Mac that can do that (the new M1 machines can't run Bootcamp), and I have a Windows 10 license, but not everyone can afford that much just to play a few games.

Linux users are even more screwed.

It's annoying. They cared enough to contract with Aspyr to create Mac ports for BL1, BL2, and BL:TPS (and Tales), and to keep them updated for years. Then they got to Commander Lilith, and the Mac version barely got any updates (and what they did get may have been Aspyr just trying to be nice, no idea if they even got paid for it).

And 2K just decides ... "nah, we don't care about those customers anymore".

It doesn't endear me to either 2K or Gearbox.

[Cunning Condor]

It is pretty crappy that Mac users can't play with their PC friends anymore simply due to corporate apathy.

[Casurin]

Originally posted by Cunning Condor:

It is pretty crappy that Mac users can't play with their PC friends anymore simply due to corporate apathy.

Even worse that they dare claim the game has "crossplay" when you can not even play PC-PC, let alone with consoles.

[shogun_fist]

Chiming in 2 years later - anyone know if this Mac / PC version mismatch still the case?

[Nakos]

In theory, it should once again be possible. Both the Mac version and the PC version currently have the same revision number:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2969698055

There are other factors (like whether or not the SHiFT servers are recognizing you, which regions you and your friends are in, etc etc) but in theory, it should again be possible.