Cross Platform Play IS LIVE!

[[DE]Dudley]

Hello Tenno,

The team has reached another milestone in the development of Cross Platform Play with the latest Updates/Hotfixes. With the launch of Lua’s Prey Update, we now have a Cross Platform Play LIVE for all platforms. This post aims to inform you about what you can expect and be the dedicated place where you can provide us with your feedback or issues about your experiences, which is very important to us.

Cross Platform Play 
Players may see a new option appearing in their settings called “Cross Platform Play.” 

You can toggle the “Cross Platform Play” setting, allowing Tenno from both platforms to join each other’s squads and complete missions together. There will be a few limitations on some features during this test:

• No Friend support
• No Trading or Gifting of items across different platforms
• No Voice Chat support

 

What are these icons that I am seeing?
While Cross Platform Play is enabled you will see an icon next to player aliases (including your own) to denote the platform a player is playing from. All players who are on the same platform as you will have the platform-specific icon. Any player who is on a different platform will have the Cross Platform Play icon.
 
What are these numbers that I see next to my alias?
To help identify players who have the same name across different platforms, everyone has been assigned a numeric suffix. This suffix is only necessary when you are looking to invite someone into your squad or chatting with players who have the same name. You can always find your suffix by visiting your Profile in the game menu. If there are no players with the same name, then you can invite and chat as you normally would. 
 
How do I whisper my friends with spaces in their names?
Console Tenno have the ability to have spaces in their aliases which means whispering them requires a small extra step. Should you wish to whisper your friend who has a space in their name, then use quotation marks to capture their full name. 

For example: /w “Tenno Are Amazing” Hi friend!
This sends the message “Hi friend!” to the player whose name is Tenno Are Amazing.

All players will have to do this to whisper another player with a space in their name.
 
How do Dojos and Relays work during Cross Platform Play?
If you have “Cross Platform Play” enabled you will be able to meet and interact with players from different platforms in Relays and also be able to visit Dojos! Currently, we are aware of an issue that will prevent Cross Platform squads that form before entering a Dojo from entering. To prevent you from running into this issue, you will see an error message explaining that you must load into the Dojo first and then invite squad members from a different platform. Despite having access to the Dojo and Relays, players will not be able to trade across different platforms.

For our Switch Tenno, you may experience some performance issues when visiting busy Relays. We encourage you to disable Cross Platform Play while you conduct your business there and to turn it back on to rejoin squads across different platforms when doing missions. We are continuing to work on improving the experience so we appreciate your patience and feedback. If you also notice some performance issues on other platforms when in busy Relays we encourage you to do the same.
 
What about Cross Save?
Cross Platform Play will be our first direction in getting all Tenno to play together, and we will announce details around Cross Save in a future announcement.
 
What feedback is most beneficial to Warframe?
For players who participate, we would love to hear from you, and there are a couple of things you can do that would be greatly appreciated. When submitting your feedback, please:

• Include the platform you are playing on
• Add screenshots/videos of any issues encountered during the test
• For PC, send your EE.log, which can be found by clicking on the “Get Logs” option under the Diagnostics section of the Settings in the launcher
  • Please attach EE.Log in a Support Ticket with the title “CROSS PLATFORM PLAY BUG” 
• For PC, detail what happened before any crash occurred when submitting a ticket using Warframe’s crash report tool (it will generate a WAR number)

 
We are excited to have this Cross Platform Play live so that we can continue to connect Tenno across all platforms. With your help, we can iron out major issues and make Cross Platform Play a smoother experience for everyone!
 

Spoiler

UPDATE: Cross Platform Play Initial Test is Over
 
Thank you for participating in our initial Cross Platform Play test for Xbox and PC users. The test is now closed but we are still accepting feedback from participants. This information will help us further develop Cross Platform Play and we look forward to sharing more information about the feature in the future.

UPDATE: Cross Platform Play Test #2 is Live
 
We want to repeat our thanks to those of you who were able to participate in our initial Cross Platform Play Test. Our second public Cross Platform Play test between Xbox and PC users is live. It’s possible that this test could close/end abruptly like the last one did, but we will update this thread if that occurs. We also updated our note on Trading to clarify what to expect during the test.
 
Please continue to report bugs and feedback to us in this thread!
 

UPDATE: December 1st, 2022 - Switch & PlayStation Addition to Cross Platform Play Test
Today marks another milestone in Cross Platform Play development! Nintendo Switch and PlayStation Tenno can now join their PC and Xbox peers in playing missions together across the Origin System. The same restrictions apply from the current PC and Xbox test but now all players can join in the fun.

 

[Metallicana974]

Crash platform i would say, a xbox player join my game and instant crash xD

[-Moctezuma-]

siuuuu

[Krilexis]

Hell yeah just a toggle, lets gooo brothers!

Edited September 29, 2022 by Krilexis

[Royal-Tentacle]

Poggers. Glad to see this is being worked on. Though it's a bit sad that PS4/5 users can't participate at the current moment. My significant other is a PS5 user and we would have gladly begun testing this together but it seems we can't for now.

[FaeliecanSagus]

oh wow, you guys are awesome!

[The3D]

Awesome!

[Cerebrophage]

23 minutes ago, [DE]Dudley said:

Hello Tenno,

The team has reached another milestone in the development of Cross Platform Play with the latest Updates/Hotfixes. The time has come for our first public Cross Play test between Xbox and PC users. This post aims to inform you about what you can expect from this test and be the dedicated place where you can provide us with your feedback or issues about your experiences, which is very important to us.

What about Cross Save?
Cross Platform Play will be our first direction in getting all Tenno to play together, and we will announce details around Cross Save in a future announcement.
 
 

My question is:

In the future, how will cross save work if you have two big profiles on two separate platforms. Please, please tell me they will merge. I have a lot of DIFFERENT cosmetics on both. I need to hear these words from DE. Someone please shed light on this.

[TheRoyalBrook]

Not what I thought I'd see as a hotfix today but dang if it isn't nice.

[KIREEK]

Impressive nontheless.

I understand that getting items availability is an issue given the rapid nature of hotfixes on PC, still, a decent start to get things rolling on all 4 wheels

[[DE]Dudley]

We have disabled the Cross Platform Play test so we can investigate/fix the crashes. This is exactly what this public test aimed to do, and we appreciate seeing all your excitement. More tests in the future when we've made some fixes.

[Numerounius]

29 minutes ago, [DE]Dudley said:

• No Conclave support
•  

This feels really weird to see. Is this the first time that we've had official confirmation by DE on conclave in a long time? Even if that update is that it won't be enabled for initial cross-play tests?

Edited September 29, 2022 by XHADgaming

[(XBOX)Ampathetiic]

Issues I've faced:

• Can't add different platform players as friends ("given username doesn't exist")
• Trying to launch a mission with a different platform player crashes the host.

will edit as I experience more...

[XennethKeisere]

Can we better define "Trading is restricted"?

[MistressToryTTV]

let's get #crossframe trending on twitter yall

[LADINO99]

eai Tenno,

linduuuuuuuuu demais!

[Numerounius]

5 minutes ago, XennethKeisere said:

Can we better define "Trading is restricted"?

I was just about ask that as well, since "restricted" means that it should still be possible just with limitations.

If it wasn't possible different wording would have been used like "No Trading between Cross-Platforms".

Edited September 29, 2022 by XHADgaming

[--N--]

4 minutes ago, XHADgaming said:

I was just about ask that as well, since "restricted" means that it should still be possible just with limitations.

If it wasn't possible different wording would have been used like "No Trading between Cross-Platforms".

I didn't see a single xbox icon in trade chat, so I'm guessing they meant "not possible at all".

[(XBOX)HeavyMetal Mike]

Just now, --N-- said:

I didn't see a single xbox icon in trade chat, so I'm guessing they meant "not possible at all".

well most xbox users were busy talking in the region, so maybe none went over and checked the market

[-Gwanox]

Is conclave planned for the full release ? Because I've seen some Console gameplay and everyone is spamming Wolf Sledge, Cerata and Telos Boltace on console (Weapons that you guys reworked / buffed for PvE, but they also changed in PvP, making them broken)

Conclave will be hell on earth if you don't fix broken weapons and the saryn elec exploit

[FSK41]

Guide on how to deal with Cross Platform

Step 1: go to settings and disable crossplay
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Grofit 

you now have a better gameplay

[Grav_Starstrider]

17 minutes ago, FSK41 said:

Guide on how to deal with Cross Platform

Step 1: go to settings and disable crossplay
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Grofit 

you now have a better gameplay

It'll be fun for friends who started playing on different platforms to be able to play together now though.

[JimmuTanno88]

22 minutes ago, -Gwanox said:

Is conclave planned for the full release ? Because I've seen some Console gameplay and everyone is spamming Wolf Sledge, Cerata and Telos Boltace on console (Weapons that you guys reworked / buffed for PvE, but they also changed in PvP, making them broken)

Conclave will be hell on earth if you don't fix broken weapons and the saryn elec exploit

 

The way they worded it being "during the test" I think implies that they do plan to add such functionality later but aren't tackling it right now, least I hope so.

Inb4 'all 4 players 🤣' meme spam lol

[Merrcenary]

1 час назад, [DE]Dudley сказал:

You can toggle the “Cross Platform Play” setting, allowing Tenno from both platforms to join each other’s squads and complete missions together. There will be a few limitations on some features during this test:

so i guess i can disable it and not participate in it since i don't really need it ? noice

[Myscho]

1 minute ago, Merrcenary said:

so i guess i can disable it and not participate in it since i don't really need it ? noice

Test is over anyway