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War Thunder has full XB1/PS4 cross play including parties, friends lists and matchmaking

Railgun

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So War Thunder has finally become free on Xbox One after being in paid early access for months. I loved the game when I used to play my PS4 especially as it's the one game I could play with my PC friends without being on my PC. I got curious how they handled blocking Xbox and PS4 from playing with each other seeing as it had full cross play with PC. The simple answer is; they don't. I was able to search for my PSN username in the in game friend finder on my Xbox One, add myself as a friend, send myself an invite and party up and play a match. Here's a screenshot from my Xbox One X playing with my PS4 (Hawkeye_335, green means you're in a party).

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Now I'm wondering how long this has been like this and how no one else has noticed. I half expect that Sony aren't even aware that this is possible as they didn't mention it in their blog post about Fortnite.
 
grmlin

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Pretty sure the game was cross platform with PC since it's launch?

Didn't play it for at least 2 years though. How is it these days?
 
Wace

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It's been like this since forever (XBox version just released), but there's no cross-buy (i.e. there's "account prison"). Fun fact: you can play on PC with the same account you have on PS4 or X1. You just can't spend money there.
 
grmlin

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Wace said:
They've added helicopters (poorly for a time being) and fleet (ok). More nations as well. Low tiers are still fun, high tiers are still "pay2play" with PC crowd ruling the field.
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Helicopters? How do these fit into the game? I guess I'm not on track with WT anymore lol

I stopped playing because the high tier grind was a complete disaster.
 
MarsipanRumpan

MarsipanRumpan

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Smite also seems to get it, there's now console icons in the Xbox version (and I believe Hi-Rez even confirmed it, at work can't check)

Which would be awesome with the switch port coming too, Smite everywhere!
 
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Railgun

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With all the fuss surrounding crossplay, I would have thought people would care more when games actually added PS4/Xbox cross play.
 
Kage Maru

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This is awesome! Tried the game out a long time ago on the PS4. I wonder how it is now. Good on Sony if they are aware of this and still not blocking it.

Railgun said:
With all the fuss surrounding crossplay, I would have thought people would care more when games actually added PS4/Xbox cross play.
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Glad you bumped this because I missed it earlier. Good stuff. The more games that support this, the better for us all.
 
Iwao

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This is good news. Ball's in your court Microsoft.

Remove that paywall on games that are for good reason designed to be free-to-play.

Railgun said:
With all the fuss surrounding crossplay, I would have thought people would care more when games actually added PS4/Xbox cross play.
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It's the exact same situation as when Xbox announced mods, and Sony were dragged about not allowing them or giving the same freedoms as MS does, and now there's less than a handful of games that make use of them. It makes you question why it was made to be such a big deal when not even MS cared to implement it on their games. Just like cross-play, not many people really care, and it's an extremely overblown issue.

Sony had cross-play with PC games for years and nobody really talked about it or questioned why it wasn't happening on consoles until MS brought it up almost a decade later. Just like I think Unreal Tournament 3 had mods on Sony's console, but nobody really thought it was worth criticising anyone over for lacking until MS had it and started talking about it a decade later.

Heromanz said:
Because no one plays War Thunder
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Isn't one of the main arguments for cross-play is that it helps unify player pools on games that have low player counts, and keeps multiplayer games active for longer on lesser played games?
 
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VirtuaRacer

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I think Gaijin Entertainment have enabled this option a bit too early. A number of devs have dropped hints that cross-play is in the pipeline for their own titles but they are waiting for the Fortnite Sony test period to end before enabling it.
 

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Railgun said:
With all the fuss surrounding crossplay, I would have thought people would care more when games actually added PS4/Xbox cross play.
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Once Sony got on board with console crossplay, interest in the feature seemed to disappear overnight on Era. Only a few months ago we were getting what felt like daily threads on it from Gowans alone, but you hardly see anything these days.
 
Mass Effect

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This reminds me, did Rocket League ever go live with XBL/PSN crossplay yet?

Also, did they ever get cross-parties working? I remember them wanting to get that working.
 
Qwark

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But has your PS4 experience suffered without Sony's "protection"?

Jk, this is awesome, hope to see it be a standard.
 
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