The Coalition announced that a crossplay test weekend will be held this Friday that will enable Xbox One and PC players to play against each others. According to the developers, this test is being conducted to evaluate the potential of a more permanent Crossplay solution in the future to allow PC and Xbox One gamers to play together in Versus outside of Private Matches.
The purpose of this weekend is to give Crossplay a trial run in a public playlist.
“We care deeply about players on both platforms and we’ve heard you, so our goal is to use this event to bring in a ton of data and listen to feedback from players on both platforms to examine the results.”
Once The Coalition uses the combination of its data and players’ feedback together, it will be able to make an informed next step. However, the team claimed that it won’t be making any surprise changes all of a sudden based on this weekend.
This is an amazing feature we hope to see in more PC games, especially to those that are exclusive to Microsoft’s Xbox One console.
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Oh boy I can’t wait for this.
Wow, really? 30 fps, 60hz and controller VS 144hz, 200fps and mouse + keyboard???
GG
You mean 60FPS.
Yeah, confirming; Gears 4 Campaign runs at 30 FPS, Gears 4 Multiplayer runs at 60 FPS.
Well I’ll be damned. Burn in hell consoles, that’s all I’ve got to say.
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Lets see the controller users get absolutely dominated by mouse/kb. PC snipers are going to have a field day with this one
Good that this is only in “private game” not whole public matchmaking. I think that after first game all console gamers will block PC gamers.
“Good that this is only in “private game” not whole public matchmaking. I
think that after first game all console gamers will block PC gamers.”
Huh, I was thinking the exact opposite. Oh, well.
“Nearly all gears players have both PC and Xbox version (Xbox Play Anywhere) but PC severs are empty.”
Yeah, I wonder why…….
PC servers are empty because all Gears 4 owners play on Xbox. They have both PC and Xbox versions (Xbox Play Anywhere) but PC multi is boring. PC players shoot on long distance from behind cover. Xbox gamers don’t use covers because all players use gnashers (shotgun). It far more fun on Xbox than on PC. Check gameplays on YouTube and you will see.
“PC servers are empty because all Gears 4 owners play on Xbox.”
You took the words right out of my mouth. Nice you see you admitting to it yourself, though.
I have both version (digital XPA). I play on PC maybe 2-3h and at least 80-100h on Xbox. PC ‘versus’ (PVP) is boring when all gamers use covers and shoot only from long distance. No gnasher… no fun
WOW i thought Winstore/win10 is the future of PC gaming, what happened ? 😀
I don’t know, it’s almost like…. damn, I can barely bring myself to say it from the shock – nobody wants it to exist on PC 😮
It will be interesting experiment. Gears of War is currently 35 usd (40% off) so many gamers will test this new crazy PVP. But I think that after first game all console gamers will block PC gamers in matchmaking.
Becaue they are cowards who dont know how to play well! Or they will realize that shooters(fps and tps) are best played with keyboard and mouse on pc and that controller is good only for fighter and hack n slash. I finsihed yesterday Dishonored 2 with keyboard and mouse only. I also finished mafia 3 shadow warrior 2 titan fall 2 and battlefield1 on octber all with keyboard and mouse. Nothing can beat keyboard and mouse for shooters. Maybe it is time for those 5 years old console gamer to get a high end pc with 4k monitor and enjoy the shooters the way they meant to be played.
Finish him!!!!
PC Farmfest
If they removed the sniper rifle then it will be fair. I play custom matches with console people, aa long as I don’t get the sniper rifle then it’s actually pretty balance.