When “Fighting Attack” was launched in 2016, Blizzard Entertainment stated at the time“There is no plan to promote cross-platform battles”，
In 2018, former game director Jeff Kaplan was interviewed by the foreign media wccftech and revealed for the first time that he hopes to bring cross-platform battles to the player community. Now, by 2021, “Fighting Battle” is finally about to usher in cross-platform battles.
According to the latest research and development update of “Fighting Attack”, the current game director Aaron Keller brings a cross-platform battle function. Players of home consoles such as PS4 and Xbox One can apply for a Battle.net account and link to the console account to play the game. Open cross-platform battles inside.
According to the official Q&A, there are still matching rules for players who start cross-platform. Although all modes support cross-platform, except for competitive battles. Competitive battles will be divided into two groups according to different game platforms, namely “Game Console Players” and “PC Version Players”. This is based on the balance consideration of the keyboard, mouse and controller operations.
In other words, if you are a host player, you will not be assigned to a PC player in a competitive match, and vice versa, even if a PC player chooses to connect to the controller, it will not be matched to a host player.
In addition, the controller assisted aiming function of the host player will be automatically turned off when playing against the PC player. In the game only between game console players, the aiming assist function will only be available for use.
After the cross-platform connection function is launched, the 28th season will continue for a while before it ends. After the update file is released, the strength ranking and leaderboard will remain unchanged, and continue as usual until the end of the season.
The cross-platform connection function of competitive battles will not be officially launched until the 29th season starts. That is to say, game console players will only play online battles with other players who also come from the game console platform in the 28th season. The 29th season of competitive battles is expected to start on July 2, 2021.
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