How do you do crossplay?

[Rylanor the Unyielding]

Deep Rock Galactic has cross play right? I have the steam version of the game and I've been trying to play with a friend who is on Xbox but I can't figure out how to join their game or invite them, they don't see my game in the server list when I host it either.

[cornman2003]

there is no crossplay for steam and xbox at the moment, only for windows store and xbox

[Rylanor the Unyielding]

Escrito originalmente por triat7403:

there is no crossplay for steam and xbox at the moment, only for windows store and xbox

So I have to buy the game again in order to play with them?
That's weak.
Thank you for your help

[Chibbity]

Xbox/Windows store can crossplay with each other.

Steam is its own deal.

Both versions of the game use their respective clients background services to provide matchmaking/servers/friends lists and such, so crossplay isn't possible.

[Red Spot]

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Escrito originalmente por triat7403:

there is no crossplay for steam and xbox at the moment, only for windows store and xbox

So I have to buy the game again in order to play with them?
That's weak.
Thank you for your help

Why is it weak? It is afaik not advertised on steam, you made a wrong assumption and now the devs are weak for it? You had 2 hours of refund time in which you could have figured out if crossplay could work and did not use that time.

[Rylanor the Unyielding]

Escrito originalmente por Red Spot:

Escrito originalmente por Forsaken:

So I have to buy the game again in order to play with them?
That's weak.
Thank you for your help

Why is it weak? It is afaik not advertised on steam, you made a wrong assumption and now the devs are weak for it? You had 2 hours of refund time in which you could have figured out if crossplay could work and did not use that time.

Yes it is weak, we both own the same game, DRG is advertised as being able to support crossplay, except there's a technical detail which says "well yes, but actually no"

Besides I owned DRG BEFORE I even met them, why should I be expected to buy the same game twice in order to play with them? That's weak.

[Chibbity]

I don't see anything on the Steam store page about crossplay?

Even the main website is more than clear about it:


Note: The Xbox One / Windows 10 version from the Microsoft Store is an Xbox Play Anywhere Title. This means the following:

By buying the game from the Microsoft Store you own it on both Xbox One and Windows 10 Store (Microsoft Store).

The Game support Cross Platform Play. This means that the Xbox One and Windows 10 Store Version (Microsoft Store) are able to play together. IMPORTANT NOTE: This also means that you are NOT able to play with people, who have bought the STEAM version.

Your Progress is saved across Xbox One and Windows 10 Store version (Microsoft Store).

Note #2: The Steam version does NOT support Cross Platform Play. This mean that you are NOT able to play with people who have bought the Xbox One/ Windows 10 Version (Microsoft Store).

[King Fossil]

Escrito originalmente por Red Spot:

Why is it weak?

Not being allowed to play with your friends sounds pretty weak to me tbh.

[Chibbity]

It's not that it's not allowed, it's just not possible currently.

[♂TheBlasterMaster™✞]

Escrito originalmente por Chibbity:

I don't see anything on the Steam store page about crossplay?

You can't.

[♂TheBlasterMaster™✞]

How could a game that is designed to play with Steam friends connect with Xbox/Microsoft friends. It can't. I have both versions. They share nothing.

[Red Spot]

Escrito originalmente por Forsaken:

Escrito originalmente por Red Spot:

Why is it weak? It is afaik not advertised on steam, you made a wrong assumption and now the devs are weak for it? You had 2 hours of refund time in which you could have figured out if crossplay could work and did not use that time.

Yes it is weak, we both own the same game, DRG is advertised as being able to support crossplay, except there's a technical detail which says "well yes, but actually no"

Besides I owned DRG BEFORE I even met them, why should I be expected to buy the same game twice in order to play with them? That's weak.

You are not expected to buy anything, but perhaps food. It is not weak that devs advertise clearly that it is not possible. If anything it is weak from you to now blame the devs for it not being possible even after it should be clear it has never been sold to you with that ability.

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Why is it weak?

Not being allowed to play with your friends sounds pretty weak to me tbh.

It is possible to play with your friends, when all of you buy the same version of the game. Dun blame devs for you not reading and jumping to conclusions.

[samcharles77]

I think it's weak but I'm not putting the blame on the devs or Steam.

When crossplay was first shown you thought, finally Xbox can play with PC and maybe at some point even Playstation!
Now can you? Yes. But I would bet this is more Microsoft than anyone that you can only play Xbox with Windows Store. It's kind of like "Hey everyone we now have crossplay...eh but we are going to limit it like everything else."

I have two brothers, one is an Xbox guy, the other a Playstation guy and me a PC guy. I dream of a day I can play a game with them on their consoles from my PC.

[Mr. Spud]

Yeah dude they told you that windows and xbox can play and not steam. now you call a great dev team weak for this and claim they said you can play cross platform.

You are the weak one here for shoving the blame onto the devs because you forgot to read.

[Rylanor the Unyielding]

Escrito originalmente por Red Spot:

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It's weak dude, it's 2020, games are starting to support cross play, Halo MCC is planned to support it, DBD already does support it, Warzone supports it. Point being, the technology is there.

We all own the game, so we should be able to play together, not being able too because of "different versions" sounds like a corporate decision.

[Rylanor the Unyielding]

Escrito originalmente por All Powerful Spud:

Yeah dude they told you that windows and xbox can play and not steam. now you call a great dev team weak for this and claim they said you can play cross platform.

You are the weak one here for shoving the blame onto the devs because you forgot to read.

Windows is PC, Xbox is console, Steam runs on PC, and yet we can't play?
Stupid.