You could perhaps use the internet.
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Elite Dangerous need to get serious about Cross Platform.
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You could perhaps use the internet.
And yes - Crossplay really works in BGS. If you ask for help, it may even come from a XBox squadron
Exuse me mr genius, but if your not using the xbox platform, how do you ask for help from that squadron rolls eyes
You could at least make the effort and quote me properly
After that, check this thread:
BGS - Any point in a single pilot trying to oppose 500+ cmdrs?
There is a a system called 69 G. CARINAE. Anarchy with lots of stations offering smuggling and lucrative illegal missions, the system is run by a pirate faction with a permit locked system next door. A group called The Stumblingtroop have moved in, looking to turn the place into a democracy...
A single commander made a plea to help a faction. Lots of people from all platforms converged to help, yours truly included
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Regardless of mode ignorance .. more games ARE becoming cross platform MP now. This could be a real shot in the arm esp for CQC. NMS is the latest to have it
Good point. We need to invent some sort of cross-platform communication method...
It needs to work with lots of different hardware: mobile phones; computers; consoles. Maybe shared underlying technology, but the upper comms layers can be specfic to that platform.
I'm just posting this up now to remind myself, but will check back on my phone and/or web-browser on the PS4 later if i think of anything.
I would just like Frontier to make player groups and squadrons cross platform so Fleet Carrier security modes would work!!!
Can you imagine 4 years ago when NMS was being released with so many issues at the time and piles of salt being poored on the small development studio?? And look where it is now:
I second that!
In my main's squadron we have all 3 platforms... Not only would it be great to have them in the 'proper' squadron, but to meet them in-game too would be amazing!
Kind of makes me a bit jealous, or annoyed. Can't make my mind up
And yes - Crossplay really works in BGS. If you ask for help, it may even come from a XBox squadron
Because many factions run their own discord server where they coordinate players across multiple platforms and modes, including Xbox, PS4, solo, group and open, and while some of us are quite happy using the tools at our disposal to coordinate with other players across disparate platforms I realise there are some who simply can't handle that level of flexibility.
Indeed. Maybe someone may like the game, maybe not but what is unquestionable is the Devs commitment to making it everything they promised before launch - and more - all for free.
@StarDemon
So having made a post like this when I first started in ED, wondering why the only mechanics for meaningful Player vs Player interactions in this game are passive aggressive and weighted in favor of solo/group players, I can tell you that 99% of the responses, including those from volunteer moderators, are going to be snide, smug, arrogant troll efforts.
The result in my case was everyone in my gaming group refunding, leaving or just passing on the game: long story short, this is a very entitled and very toxic community if you're not playing the way the resident noise-makers think you should.
So having made a post like this when I first started in ED, wondering why the only mechanics for meaningful Player vs Player interactions in this game are passive aggressive and weighted in favor of solo/group players, I can tell you that 99% of the responses, including those from volunteer moderators, are going to be snide, smug, arrogant troll efforts.
The result in my case was everyone in my gaming group refunding, leaving or just passing on the game: long story short, this is a very entitled and very toxic community if you're not playing the way the resident noise-makers think you should.
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In the earlier days I could see how cross-play could have been biased toward PC players, but now there are Thrustmaster sticks for the consoles (at least Xbox), for use in ED. Nowadays? I'm not sure how this isn't, at the very least, an Xbox Play Anywhere title (PC/ Xbox).
Good point, well made.
Not only from “any game mode” but from any instance. So even if a player and his wingmen are working against a player group in open on the same platform, chances are they won’t be instanced with their foes anyway. That’s just how ED works - it’s instanced, not a single shard like Eve.
I don’t understand why so many PvP proponents fail to grasp this simple fact.
I can totally relate to frustration around this topic - I've just convinced my friend to buy this on his PS4 only to discover that we cannot even fly together in a wing.
That's very unexpected and disappointing.
That's very unexpected and disappointing.
And it still doesn't work really well in NMS.
I suspect there is more than just turning on a switch involved in getting these to work. Not the least of which is permission from the respective (other than PC) platform sellers.
Please elaborate more on how you could defend yourself here?
I assume you lost the system to the other faction, meaning that your faction was in control of the system...
Lets ignore the existing instancing problems, and simple assume working crossplay and perfect instancing.... and totally ignore Blocking and that PvP are optional part of this game.
So my faction invades your system.. and you decide that you definitely do not want to loose this system, so instead of actually understanding how BGS works and get on with this, you decides to pick out your combat ships and wait in supercruise and target "any" players who you thinks are working against you... you have no clue what players are part of my team, we do not even need to have our own squadron, so we are just a bunch of players sharing a discord channel...
So you found some players that might or might not work against you, but hey, you get to do some target practice. And since we play the BGS, and it was an election, we are NOT running around in combat ships, so we are likely very easy targets. Bam, bam, bam, our ships go boom, all over the place, you sit there and feels mighty important over your PvP skills, and then next update, you notice how you are loosing influence and we are gaining...
because, BGS is not designed around PvP, it designed around other mechanics, and when you decide to destroy our ships, to protect you controlling faction, yu are actually undermining your own status, as we are CLEAN ships, and you are now committing murder, so not only are you loosing your own standing with your own faction, you are now subject to less security, as the controlling faction is CLEARLY failing to keep CLEAN ships safe in the system! So your factions influence is hurting by your actions.
So we can now happily change to cheap ships, that are fast to kill. And let you get as many PvP kills as you can rack up, and those of us that you fail to catch, they can keep diong the the BGS missions and earn even more influence for our faction.
This time you you complain about a player group in a different platform, you have still not grasped that fact that there is no mandatory Open only for BGS either, so all of this could as easily have happened by a PC player group only playing in solo/private group and you would be none the wiser about who that player group either.