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Strengths
- Cross Play enables the community to finally play with players on other platforms which helps with matchmaking and our overall experience
- Apex Legends has chosen a unique route with this which satisfies console players
- It gives people more competition to climb higher in the ranks which is absolutely amazing for me as a competitive gamer
Weaknesses
- Players on PC now suffer from much slower matchmaking compared to console as cross platform play is not always active for them
- The pop up UI that shows when you receive a cross platform friend request is really big and can be very annoying for streamers etc. if a lot of people send requests
My suggestions to improve
- ALL platforms should play together in cross play lobbies
- When you receive a friend request a UI doesn't pop up; to accept, block or decline you should need to go into the social menu
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I play on Xbox. Personally, I wish the cross-play worked as such...
- Xbox and PlayStation players always play together as long as cross-play is enabled and 0-1 PC players are in theirs quad.
This next part could be really nice if able to function correctly:
"If an Xbox One or Playstation 4 player and PC player party up together, they will be put into PC matches. This ensures that the console games don’t have PC players in them, but still allows for the console player to play with their PC friend if they opt-in."
I would prefer the game would choose which matchmaking queue to enter based on the majority of players in the squad. *Meaning, if there's only 1 PC player, but 2 console players, it will put that squad in the console queue.* If a PC player and console player want to do duo's, I'd still prefer being put in the console queue so the majority of players in that lobby are on console.
The second part of that quote, "This ensures that the console games don’t have PC players in them, but still allows for the console player to play with their PC friend if they opt-in..."
As a console player, I'd much rather be put into the console queue with some PC players like I mentioned above*, instead of being forced to go against all PC players if I want to play with my friend who is only on PC.
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@IAmTheMeddler I don't seem to understand what you mean. PC players have a very little advantage over console players!
Firstly, a lot of the best PC players right now use controller so there is really no excuse for losing to a keyboard and mouse player with controller.
Secondly, the cheater problem is majorly exaggerated. Sure, the anti-cheat needs some work and we need an effective reporting tool, but if you look at other games with cross play like this (except Warzone because their anti-cheat is disgracefully terrible) cheating is not an issue!
Lastly, keyboard and mouse support on console can make a difference for you unsatisfied console players out there.
And by the way, I'll give you an accurate figure on the aim assist strength for both console players and PC players, 1.0 being complete aimbot:
PC - 0.4
Console - 0.6
So PC players have much better reason to worry about cross play like this.
Besides cross play is optional so you can opt out if you wish to.
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@Pallo420 The Xbox concept is interesting. Is it a bug or is the option not there at all?
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@TacoMonster1212 I agree! I'd love to play with PC players in my lobbies as well. It will maybe give me better competition