Sony Is Blocking Fortnite Cross-Play Between PS4, Nintendo Switch Players (theverge.com) 90
Earlier today, Nintendo announced during its E3 press conference that Epic Games' Fortnite would be coming to the Switch console. Unfortunately, when Epic Games PR representative Nick Chester confirmed cross-play compatibility, the PS4 wasn't on the list. The Switch version of Fortnite will only support cross-play with Xbox One, PC, Mac, and mobile. The Verge reports: That aligns with past cross-play implementations between Xbox One, PS4, PC, and mobile, with Sony blocking other console platforms from playing with its own. You can cross-play between PS4, mobile, and PC. Unfortunately, this also suggests that PS4 players of Fortnite won't be able to log in to their Epic accounts on the Switch, meaning you won't be able to have any weekly progress carry over or gain access to any of your skins or emotes. This is because your Epic account is tied up with your PSN username in most cases. For instance, you can't log in to an Epic account tied to PSN on the Xbox One version of Fortnite, and it sounds like the same will be true for the Switch.
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Can I still eat chicken nuggets while I play?
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Not unless you buy them from an official PS4 chicken nugget store.
Who even wants this stuff (Score:4, Interesting)
I'd have thought if you were on a console blocking PC players from joining would be welcomed...?
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FYI: This is not about mixing PS4 vs Switch on the same server. It's about once you've ever played on PS4, then Sony is making it impossible to ever use the same Fortnight account to play on Switch.
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Precisely. All of the other games that have allowed PC players in with consoles have been riddled with cheaters, even MS's own Sea of Thieves... I'm glad they're kept out on PS4
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cheater kept out of PS4?
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>They aren't cheaters
How do you know? PUBG is filled to the brim with cheaters, BlueHole can't keep up with the slew of new cheats that come out for the game, both on console and PC. Hell, there are even a couple of major streamers who use cheats and people still eat that stuff up. But folks like you constantly drone in the background: "Git gud!"
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There are game genres other than FPS's and Fortnite isn't an FPS. Save The World is a sandbox Tower-defense/RPG/third person PVE shooter hybrid and Battle Royale is a Third person shooter.
And to be sure, not every FPS is an unrealistic bunny-hopping-shoot-rockets-at-your-feet twitchfest. I'm also old enough to remember the early FPS players referring to the mouse-aiming in Quake as "easy-mode for gamer-come-lately-frat-boys"
I liked having the mouse-aim option with Quake II on the PSone. In fact I prefer
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The ONLY genres in which a keyboard and mouse isn't preferred over a gamepad is 2D platformers and racing games.
3D platformers? Action-RPG's? Flight Sims? Fighting games? Musou games?
Really? You actually said to yourself "Gee, I really like have a cumbersome and imprecise controller for this game."?
I literally said "didn't mind". SOCOM's a slow paced stealth-centric shooter (in singleplayer), it is NOT Team Fortress. In general the slower and more methodical you are in SOCOM, the better your missions and mission rating will go. SOCOM, at least in the early games, tend to more realism. Your stealth, movement, and aiming ability depend on how much you are carrying. You slap a grenade launcher on your M4 and you slow down and
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Maybe go learn how to read before you try to post next time.
Hey Coward, we're you born a sociopathic asshole or was it learned? The STORY is about Fortnite, not PUBG, I was more on-topic than the people talking about PUBG are.
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Your PC Master Race bias towards mice doesn't apply in this instance since Fortnite on PS4 has Keyboard and Mouse support.
That said, keyboards are horrible devices for movement control, being digital and not analog.
What works VERY well is to move with an analog stick but aim with a mouse.
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This is true for steering only. Not for moving a character.
Fortnite BR (and other console games) implement ways in which movement affects stealth. In Fortnite BR the faster you move the louder you are. You don't always want to move at full speed in Fortnite BR. Analog control lets you vary your movement speed on a continuum.
Good luck trying to get a modern console to work with console accessories from 15+ years ago.
While you can't use PSone, PS2 or PS3 DualShocks with the PS4, you wouldn't want to, the PS4 DualShock is superior. The lack of the classic playstation controller port on the PS3 is only a problem if you wanted to use the PSone mouse with sa
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If you're talking about any kind of competitive game you'll never need to move any slower than running.
Never play a game that implements how movement affects noise and stealth? Well Fortnite BR is a competitive game where you DON'T want to run all the time because the faster you move, the more noise you make.
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So let's put it to the test, shall we? I challenge you to a deathmatch with me on keyboard and mouse and your on gamepad.
You seem to be under the impression that I'm anti-mouse, didn't you read that I prefer hybrid controls in games that support it. Meaning Analog stick + mouse. And Deathmatch? There's more to gaming than shooters you know. And if we were to play against each other it would have to be a cross-platform game that supports multiple control schemes that neither of us are familiar with for a fair test.
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Except in battle royale games, which require a massive number of players (most start with 100 players). Having players from different consoles and platforms means a bigger pool of players to begin with.
And I believe with this type of game, with rounds being really quick, advantages of platforms gets minimized.
I suspect Epic will quickly offer an option to unlink their PS4 account from their Epic account.
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It some ways it is a good plan.
Consoles and PCs with different system requirements, available controllers and degrees of hackability means a rather unfair game especially where it is twitch type of game where reflexes are key.
Keyboard PC Gamer get high precision, and a lot of options with the key presses, but it may not be as fast as with an analog control for such a game, having distant sniping being an advantage, vs. perhaps faster close range combat on a console.
The switch which is meant to play on a tin
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and a Switch ain't one.
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The Switch version of Fortnite will only support cross-play with Xbox One, PC, Mac, and mobile.
What a strange way to word that. it will "only" work with everything but PS4.
The Verge reports: That aligns with past cross-play implementations between Xbox One, PS4, PC, and mobile,
So did the PS4 used to work with Xbox One, PC, and Mobile?
with Sony blocking other console platforms from playing with its own. You can cross-play between PS4, mobile, and PC.
Wait, no. Sony won't work with any other consoles. But it still works with PC and mobile.
I don't even want to RTFA as it might say that it will work with NES, Atari 2600, Magnavox Odyssey and Ms. Pacman. And if you sacrifice a goat during a blue super moon it will also work with Duesenberg cars, the original Eli Whitney cotton gin, and any abacus built before 1874.
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Yea, I also thought it was suspicious how they managed to word it to sound like this was somehow everyone else's fault but Sony's.
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The problem with cross-play between consoles is that "modded" consoles can taint the gameplay. With a PC you already know it's a taintable source, so you put additional protection measures that would make PC cheaters easy to spot, but PS4, Xbox One and Switch cheats would go unnoticed.
Where things get wacky is that it's entirely possible to jailbreak a console by using the crossplay functionality. Because Fortnite is basically a (Unreal) game engine that was designed for single player, you can typically hac
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You're telling me I can't run it on the antikythera mechanism? Well, that sucks.
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You're telling me I can't run it on the antikythera mechanism?
If you have one of those, you might want to try Kerbal Space Program on it instead.
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Not about cross play (Score:5, Informative)
For those that don't want to dig into the details, here is the gist of it.
Fortnite uses an Epic Games account to login. If you've EVER logged into a Sony's PS4 with this account and touched Fortnite on it, this account become permanently locked out of both Microsoft's XBox One and Nintendo's Switch. The issue is not about cross play even, people are accepting that it wont happen. The issue is the fact that the outside Epic account becomes locked because of a deal Sony forced upon Epic games.
This of course became front and center in the spot light again today now that the Switch version of the game launched this morning, and a fuckton of people are pissed off that their in-game progress and paid content is entirely inaccessible on the Switch if they've ever touched the PS4 version.
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sony 0, me 6
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... and you went with Microsoft?
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They're pissed because Switch is the first mobile/portable platform that has real controllers. The appeal is you can take your progress with you - perhaps you played on PC or console at home, take your switch and play
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Microsoft tried to force a first-hand only market down people's throats with the Xbone, tried to cover their tracks by saying it was so ingrained into everything that there was no possible way it could be changed, and only after realizing it was guaranteed console suicide changed their mind (thus proving themselves liars in the process no less).
Literally every company will try shady anti-consumer bullshit and the only way to stop them is by making it very clear the masses won't buy it. When it comes to cons
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Fortnite uses an Epic Games account to login. If you've EVER logged into a Sony's PS4 with this account and touched Fortnite on it, this account become permanently locked out of both Microsoft's XBox One and Nintendo's Switch. The issue is not about cross play even, people are accepting that it wont happen. The issue is the fact that the outside Epic account becomes locked because of a deal Sony forced upon Epic games.
I am gobsmacked that Epic would agree to this. It's their account management system after all and Fortnight is huge. I can understand not implementing cross-platform play with the PS4 at the behest of Sony, but I'm surprised Sony had the leverage to make Epic piss off so many of their customers like this.
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Sony once again screws their customers? This is my shocked face.
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With gyro-aim the Switch users are going to mop the floor with everyone using joysticks. That's the real reason Sony doesn't want to play with anyone.
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The real battle is aimbotting, aka autoaim.
The actual term is "aim-assist" since it "assists" in aiming but doesn't automatically aim for you. In most console games you can turn it off.
Plugging a kb+mse into a console is a gateway drug to pc.
No more than plugging in a gamepad in a PC is a gateway drug to console.
But IDC, they made their bed with all the antitrust shit they pulled. Good riddance I say. They will get burned over this.
No one except a few aspie nerds cares about that.
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In most cases it makes the aiming reticule "slightly sticky", meaning it doesn't attract to the center-of-the-hitbox, but to whatever part of the target you're closest to. And as I said, there is usually an option to turn it off, or adjust it. In some games it could only be used in single-player.
Personally I found it a hindrance in the PS2 version of Half-Life, even with gamepad only so I turned it off.
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No they don't, since Fortnite...even the BR version isn't a fast paced twitch first person shooter. It is THIRD person. Though PS4 players do have the option for keyboard and mouse. I play Save the World (the PVE RPG-shooter-tower-defense-sandbox part) and don't feel the need for it.
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Microsoft have been advocating for cross-platform play for awhile now. It's Sony that has always been backpedaling on the idea.
You do know that in the previous generation the situation was reversed? That the reason Dust514 was on PS3 was because Microsoft was opposed to linking games with PC and was opposed to USB control options?
Sony is just being spiteful in return as payback for Microsofts asshattery in the previous generation. Sony's still OK with crossplay with PC/Linux/OSX/mobile though.
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And BSD?
PS4's are FreeBSD machines....so yes.
https://doc.dl.playstation.net... [playstation.net]
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I'm a Playstation fan, but I think Sony should stop this nonsense, if people want to play with other consoles they should be allowed. It's clear there is no technical reason for not being able to have crossplay as it has even worked for a couple of hours back when fortnite was introduced on the PS..
Sony, stop it, and don't talk about nonsense of not being able to moderate it, nobody wants that anyway..
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Search Google, Sony keeps this stance by years.
Only since their success with the PS4, before that with the PS3 and PS2 they were VERY much in favor of cross-platform play with other consoles.
They've ALWAYS been supportive of Playstation-PC (including OSX and Linux) crossplay.
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