I've been playing this game again since i got a PC and it's a way better experience here than on console. All my friends and I used to play on Playstation but 1. I have all my DLC there and cant justify a full switch over unless some how someway we get something lets me bring over something i've all ready purchased. 2. All my friends don't have the will or funds to switch to PC. I might be willing to buy all the DLCs again if the price is right but then I still can't play with my old friends. Has anyone else asked this question?
#It's 2026, The Angler has cross platform play. Why doesn't this game yet?
river forge
stable pier
Its too far in the game to make it work, if they had done it earlier it might've but it's too late now. Too much code to go through
burnt oracle
They've explained it a bit before but I'll summarize here.
The Angler was built completely differently than COTW - it was very much built to support cross-platform play. Unfortunately when they did COTW the engine it was built on simply didn't - and still doesn't - support it. In order to bring cross-platform play to the game, they'll have to completely rewrite/rebuild it from the ground up which is not only challenging when attempting to keep current saves continuable, but is also an extremely time consuming process.
Originally they hard-lined it with responses as a "no it will never be" but their most recent comments are summarized as "we don't have it and don't know when we will." I'd imagine since they plan long term support for the game that this is something on their working list (ie rebuilding into a new engine for crossplay and other cool features) but there's no guarantee or promise it'll happen.
stable pier
Also the Angler is a dead game. Could've been the best fishing game but they gave up right when it was getting good.
burnt oracle
Also the Angler is a dead game. Could've been the best fishing game but they gav...
It clearly wasn't performing well enough for the amount of time being invested in it. They already have a winner when it comes to games (this one obv), and now they are giving it a lot more attention and working on pushing it to the next level. The newer content is looking fantastic and a huge upgrade from what they've done before.
stable pier
It clearly wasn't performing well enough for the amount of time being invested i...
I agree with that, but I really loved theAngler, I know it wasn't getting the performance they wanted. I was there when they were explaining it.
I was there Gandalf.... I was there three thousand years ago.
tribal comet
I wish CotW could be restarted like NHA.
Ok the effort would be effing Herculean bordering on Sisyphean but it would be amazing
bright crane
I wish CotW could be restarted like NHA.
Ok the effort would be effing Herculea...
COTW 2 will come at some point and I suspect cross play will be a major feature....
soft thunder
COTW 2 will come at some point and I suspect cross play will be a major feature....
Hopefully its an option players can opt out of to avoid the PC modders
opaque geyser
Hopefully its an option players can opt out of to avoid the PC modders
This is the main reason why I hope EW never even attempts to waste their time with coding in Crossplay without an anticheat like Classic has. Angler had a pretty good anticheat from what I’ve heard, and the fish populations were different for everyone as well, so it wasn’t as big of an issue. With COTW 2, they would have to make it essentially impossible to use mods or hacks in order for Crossplay to work.
tribal comet
Or at least limit them to single player mode only
river forge
Also the Angler is a dead game. Could've been the best fishing game but they gav...
I know right? It's perfection and they could've done so much more with it and chose not too.
bright crane
Hopefully its an option players can opt out of to avoid the PC modders
Well as you know its an important feature from a revenue standpoint ...
But the #1 ingredient for making cross play work is having EW establishing and maintaining its own game servers like Angler did. Cant really do cross-play or reliable online play without server side control.
However Just having control over their own servers will cut down on the ability to mod considerably.... As well as being able to authorize only those mods that they want to authorize .
The down side is it would require you to be logged into their servers at all times to play the game .... again like Angler does ...
There are some other tech hurdles to overcome that are unique to hunting ... For example each player in angler had their own fish because they could hide the fish population under water . So 2 players fishing side by side wouldn't effect the other players fish population ... You cant really see them until you catch them ....
Haven't really thought about how you would do this with hunting ??? As 2 hunters side by side and aware of one another would be weird if they both saw different animals .... (Example .. Hey bud there's a diamond Kudu 200m in front of us ... and the friend cant see it )
stoic perch
Well as you know its an important feature from a revenue standpoint ...
But t...
Other issue with servers is then the game will inevitably be inaccessible as a company cannot support them forever so it basically forces a game to have a much higher chance of becoming lost media
quiet stone
all they have to do is give an option to play cross play or not yea pc is full of moders your all right ive played both console and pc. Give an option for crossplay private and public so it still gives us the options to play on pc with out console friends in private also if you all hate the idea of modders then to reinforce that they can add a blacklist of people you have banned from your server specificly for modding there are many ways around it i back every cross play idea and discussion.