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(XBOX)VoiceOvRuin

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I was able to easily join my friend with her invite, I experienced no lag or general glitchiness. I like the little icons for Xbox and PC by the player names. Sending an invite was easy too. Great work, I look forward to the next test. I am particularly excited to play with my friends on PlayStation!

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14 hours ago, (XBOX)VoiceOvRuin said:

I was able to easily join my friend with her invite, I experienced no lag or general glitchiness. I like the little icons for Xbox and PC by the player names. Sending an invite was easy too. Great work, I look forward to the next test. I am particularly excited to play with my friends on PlayStation!

That's awesome. Recruiting more friends to farm together across the platforms. Try to get at least a dozen friends to join and farm every new item that's becoming more and more farming friendly. 

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I also found it to be a smooth and enjoyable experience. In terms of feedback (and I appreciate that given the short duration these are pretty subjective)

Starting as a group (so not late joining a public one) watching the loading progress indicators on the fly in screen it seemed as if all the PC members loaded considerably faster than Xbox. Similarly the PC members had left the squad before the mission completion screen had finished loading on Xbox, implying a faster exit at the PC end?

There seemed to be a greater number of host disconnections than usual.

Anyone else feel this was the case?

 

 

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It was a ton of fun. I usually do everything solo. My best friend also does everything solo, but she plays on Xbox. Getting to play together was the most fun I've had in a long time. We've been hoping for crossplay for literal years. It's going to be so nice to have another person for stuff like Archons.

It would get a little laggy on long Survival. I think I also didn't get the rewards from one of our long relic-opening missions. Worth, can't wait for the actual release of crossplay. 

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7 hours ago, (XBOX)Cotton Tail said:

Similarly the PC members had left the squad before the mission completion screen had finished loading on Xbox, implying a faster exit at the PC end?

Even among PC users this can happen. The hobo camp loads waaaaaay slower than the orbiter. I do have an SSD, but impatient pub hosts disband fairly frequently for me before I'm loaded after a mission when running through daily SP incursions with randoms.

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Oh, and on topic... of course there were some turds in the pool from both sides last night, but chat and the few missions with mixed squads went well and other than the novelty and joking about the situation, it seemed pretty normal from my usual late night PC perspective.

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I've had no trouble with the crossplay feature at all as a PC player, however my friend does.

He's on a lower end laptop and he can't seem to stay connected, he gets consistently host dropped on team missions like crazy and crazzzy long loading times when an xbox player is in the squad and we tried turning it off....

Problem with turning crossplay off is we can't get any other pc players in squad. It seems like that anybody with it 'on' is flagged to their own unique pool and since the update kinda default turned it on.. it's kinda like playing with friends only invite active, or solo.

We turned it off, and he could play just fine again, but with it on? No chance at all and I definitely think there is something to do with the networking needed for xbox and how weak it is? No idea.. I too also noticed lesser mobs spawning too.

You can have one guy stand there and aoe blast everything one shot and they're all dead, leaves the rest of us pretty bored.

 

TL:DR - My criticism is to perhaps make it that people who turn cross play off are NOT removed from grouping those who have it on that are on the same platform because right now it seems that's what is going on. While I have no issues, other people on low end pcs are suffering as a result of host connection failures.

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16 hours ago, Veknahj said:

My criticism is to perhaps make it that people who turn cross play off are NOT removed from grouping those who have it on that are on the same platform because right now it seems that's what is going on.

The problem there is if it joins you with a host that has it on, but is by themselves, then an Xbox player could join 30 seconds later after the mission has started.

But of course this is why this is still a test at this point, so they can gather data and figure out how to best make this work smoothly with hosting. I'm sure they're gathering data on load times with everything else.

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3 hours ago, Hobie-wan said:

The problem there is if it joins you with a host that has it on, but is by themselves, then an Xbox player could join 30 seconds later after the mission has started.

But of course this is why this is still a test at this point, so they can gather data and figure out how to best make this work smoothly with hosting. I'm sure they're gathering data on load times with everything else.

Yeah, which is completely fair. It's part of why I came to speak my bit on my experience with it since my friend's experience was kinda crappy. I'm sure DE will be keeping an eye out for all this sort of stuff and seeking ways to optimize this better in the future.

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On 2022-10-07 at 8:27 AM, (XBOX)VoiceOvRuin said:

I was able to easily join my friend with her invite, I experienced no lag or general glitchiness. I like the little icons for Xbox and PC by the player names. Sending an invite was easy too. Great work, I look forward to the next test. I am particularly excited to play with my friends on PlayStation!

When for PlayStation DE? 🥹 whennnnn????

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