Overwatch is Blizzard’s newest IP and is playable on a number of platforms like PCs and consoles, however but these gamers had been by no means in a position to play collectively. However, as you would possibly recall, just a few weeks in the past Blizzard introduced that assist for cross-play can be coming quickly and certain sufficient it has within the newest patch.

According to the patch notes, “Cross-Play is now here, allowing players on different platforms to group up and play Overwatch together! All console players are required to make a Battle.net account and link it to their console account.” This implies that console gamers who don’t but have a Battle.internet account might want to make one to proceed.

Even if you don’t intend to make the most of cross-play, Blizzard states that console gamers will nonetheless have to create an account. Also, remember that cross-play gained’t be obtainable in all recreation modes, particularly Competitive. Cross-play will solely assist Quick Play, Arcade, and Custom.

According to Blizzard, Competitive mode will nonetheless cut up gamers up based mostly on their platforms, that means that console gamers shall be matched with different console gamers, and the identical shall be utilized to PC players. This is to assist preserve issues truthful since each console and PC players play utilizing totally different peripherals, with some arguing that the keyboard and mouse is extra correct and would thus give PC gamers a bonus over console players.

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