While crossplay has been one of the best things to happen to online multiplayer games, it also presents a problem among gamers, as most console players don’t want to play against PC players due to the advantage of mouse and keyboard controls, as well as the issue of cheating, which more often than not, happens on PC due to the platform’s open nature.
For Battlefield 6, DICE has talked about crossplay, and while it won’t fully implement console-only crossplay, the developers have thought of the next best thing.
Console players will be happ with what one DICE producer has shared recently.
Battlefield 6 Crossplay Prioritizes Console Players Against Other Console Players
Over on X (formerly Twitter), DICE producer Alexia Christofi explained how crossplay works in Battlefield 6. While there’s no console-only crossplay feature, the devs are making sure console players are matched against other console players first, before dipping into the PC player pool.
Christofi shared, “it’s crossplay on or off – but if crossplay is on we treat it as console preferred crossplay, so we’ll try and matchmake you with others playing on console before falling back to full crossplay if we can’t find you a match with only/mostly console players.”
This applies to all console platforms, so PS5 players will first exhaust the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S player base before matching them against PC.
As a console player, this is a move I highly approve of, and DICE seems to have found a good middleground for both parties.
In other Battlefield 6 news, DICE has also confirmed there will be over 40 weapons in the final game, and we have an early list.
When it comes to cosmetics, DICE has also confirmed we won’t be seeing crazy skins like in Call of Duty since they want to keep things grounded.
Battlefield 6 seems to be hitting all the right notes so far. Gamers will have a chance to test it for themselves once the open beta kicks off this coming week.
Battlefield 6 releases on October 10 on the PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC, and it won’t be priced more as some gamers feared.
Battlefield 6
- Developer(s)
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Battlefield Studios
- Engine
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Frostbite
- Number of Players
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Single-player
- Steam Deck Compatibility
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Unknown
