Cross-Saves / Cross-Progression / "Loot Sharing"

[(NSW)ohgodzilla]

So with Empyrean demo'd, I think there is even more of a need for Cross-Saves / Cross-Progression of some sort in the game, especially for consoles like Nintendo Switch that have performance issues with the new open world areas (even if other missions perform surprisingly well for a hand-held). 

While playing on console is extremely convenient, especially if portable, it would be a huge selling feature for this game to be able to have a proper PC set up that uses the same account, or to be able to switch over to PS4 or XBOX to play with your friends on those systems as well, without having to make a new account. 

Note, that I'm not talking about Cross-PLAY as DE has mentioned before it would not be feasible to have all systems on the same release cycle, since that would negatively affect the PC audience, and prevent DE from being as agile as possible for bug-fixes. 

This topic has come up quite a bit in interviews lately. I was hoping we would see it mentioned at tennocon, but no luck, so hopefully there's news about it going forwards. 

[(NSW)ohgodzilla]

Especially since squad coordination seems to be so important in Empyrean. It would be great to be able to call your buddy from PS4 to come help out on your mission on PC for example. 

[GnarlsDarkley]

12 minutes ago, (NSW)ohgodzilla said:

it would be a huge selling feature for this game to be able to have a proper PC set up that uses the same account,

You had me until this point.

Crosssave between consoles may come in the future as DE said in one of the last Devstreams. But not with PC. We still serve as beta beta Testers so they don't have to put in 20 Updates into Cert. 

And I don't like waiting for a /gamebreaking) to be fixed after weeks instead of minutes/hours

Edited July 8, 2019 by GnarlsDarkley

[(NSW)ohgodzilla]

21 minutes ago, GnarlsDarkley said:

You had me until this point.

Crosssave between consoles may come in the future as DE said in one of the last Devstreams. But not with PC. We still serve as beta beta Testers so they don't have to put in 20 Updates into Cert. 

And I don't like waiting for a /gamebreaking) to be fixed after weeks instead of minutes/hours

Did you not read the part where I explicitly said I wasn't talking about cross-PLAY for this exact reason? They are different. Cross-progression doesn't require version parity and should be implemented in a way that doesn't affect PC releases.