#Will payday 3 be crossplay update#
#Will payday 3 be crossplay Pc#

Small(er) social graphs: Publisher-focused social graphs tend to have fewer users and social connections between those users, than social graphs spanning multiple publishers.Expensive: Not all developers/publishers have the capability to implement, maintain, and constantly draw users to their own social graphs.Users maintain a single online identity, no matter where they play Single identity on all platforms: Makes development and support easier across platforms for developers.

#Will payday 3 be crossplay Pc#

Storefront equality: By default, when using a publisher social graph as the primary social graph, PC storefronts are treated equally.

These solutions are welcome on the Epic Games Store. Some developers or publishers have the capability of supporting their own social graph. Reciprocal friends: Optionally link to another account to have Epic Account Services receive friend suggestions from another social graph.Suggested friends: Optionally link to another account to suggest Epic friends to another social graph.

Integrated friends: Optionally link with other social graphs, including other publishers or platform-based social graphs where applicable, to display additional friends lists in-game.In these cases, we recommend using bifurcated social graphs. A change for existing users: for titles that have previously shipped using other social graphs as their primary, updating to Epic Account Services as the primary social graph may be disruptive.No blockers: Epic Account Services are supported on all major platforms, storefronts, engines, etc.Users maintain a single online identity and friends list across titles and platforms.

Large social graph: The Epic Account Services have more than 350 million accounts and over 2.2 billion friend connections.Learn more about Epic Online Services and Epic Account Services. This scenario provides you with a unified cross-platform matchmaking pool while allowing users to decide if they wish to use their Epic Games account for crossplay purposes (i.e., using the Epic Games social overlay or sending cross-platform invites to friends).Įpic Account Services are designed to work across platforms to provide a consistent developer and user experience. Alternative: Provide separate options to send Steam friend invites (through the Steam API/overlay) and Epic Games friend invites (through the EOS API/overlay).In your product's UI where direct direct session invites between friends are supported, use the EOS Native Platform Integration to display Steam and Epic Games friends together in the social overlay.If False, skip the Epic Games account authentication.If True, automatically log in the user during initial boot.On subsequent launches, detect the value of the crossplay setting (i.e., true or false) and take the appropriate action:.Then, proceed through the Epic Games account linking flow. If a user selects Yes, save the True value to the crossplay setting.Then, continue as if cross-platform invites have not been implemented. If a user selects No, save the False value to the crossplay setting.

#Will payday 3 be crossplay update#

Once implemented, users should be prompted upon first launch of your product to enable cross-platform multiplayer by linking their Epic Games account (e.g., Would you like to enable cross-platform invites to friends using an Epic Games account? You can update this preference at any time in the Settings menu.).

Additionally, you must implement crossplay in your product using Epic Account Services. By default, this crossplay setting should not have a known true/false value so that users must provide their selection.

Use a persistent setting in your product to toggle cross-platform multiplayer functionality (e.g., Enable cross-platform invites to friends using an Epic Games account).

If you choose to use Epic Games accounts as the cross-platform account system, we recommend the following flow on Steam to provide an optimal experience to users: Learn more about Crossplay Social Graph Options to support invitation systems.

A Steam player has a way to send an invitation to a friend playing on the Epic Games Store.

An Epic Games Store player has a way to send an invitation to a friend playing on Steam.

These invites should work bi-directionally, in a similar manner to how they work on their native platform, so: For products that support invites, invites must be supported across storefront boundaries.