[2020] Full Cross-Platform Play Now Live In Rocket League!

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With special thanks to all of our friends and colleagues at PlayStation, we are thrilled to announce that starting RIGHT NOW, Rocket League has entered the PlayStation Cross-Play Beta program! Players on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and Steam can now randomly matchmake with or against each other in all Online match types (i.e. Casual, Competitive, and Extra Modes).

To make sure that Cross-Platform play is enabled (it is by default), head to the "Main Menu," select "Options" and then make sure the "Cross-Platform Play" box is checked in the "Gameplay" tab. And that's all there is to it. You are now ready to play against gamers on other platforms across the world!

But what about cross-platform parties? In our first update this year (more information coming soon), we will release our cross-platform party system, which allows you to partner up with friends on any platform with the push of a few buttons.

Should you want to play with friends on other platforms before cross-platform parties release, however, you can! Just select "Play" from the "Main Menu," then "Private Match," followed by "Create" or "Join Private Match," and you're set from there.

Today's announcement is an important one for us here at Psyonix, because we know how much our community has wanted FULL cross-platform support for quite some time. It's because of YOU, our fans, and our generous partners on all systems and services that have made this possible in the first place. On behalf of the entire team, THANK YOU for your passion and persistence as we continue to do our best to make Rocket League the best experience we can.

We'll see you out on the field!

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Originally posted by ytzi13

Thanks. Someone already linked that to me elsewhere and for some reason I thought it was an older comment. Oops!

Still, my question extends beyond that response.

Will they be adding a "Party up?" quick chat? Will we have to just send them an invite and hope they respond? Does this special waiver apply to players across platforms who are in our club? Do these waivers apply to private matches where it would be implied that players communicated outside of the game in some way already?

This also seems to be indicative of the usefulness of a "stay as team" button that Psyonix did mention they would look into once RocketID matured a bit, in which case I'd be curious how that would work in a 3v3 where only one teammate agrees.

u/Psyonix_Corey I guess you'd be the guy to ask.

Lot to unpack here, here we go:

No "Party Up" quick chat, but something I can circulate internally for adding.
You send Party Invites to Friends (platform or RocketID) and they'll get a notification they can accept asynchronously. If you're talking about inviting non-friends, you'd need their RocketID and have to friend them (and they have to accept) before you can party up. Given that you can't chat cross-platform by default, this is tricky, however...
There's a "Recent Players" tab in the in-game Friends List you can use to friend people you played with recently without them having to chat their RocketID to you. The Friends List is part of the bottom panel next to Party Chat and can be accessed mid/endgame, you don't have to go to the Main Menu to use it.
Chat Waivers aren't unique to any particular qualifications e.g. Club Membership. It's simply only allowed for Party Chat specifically. Private Match "open chat" would require us to get an additional waiver that we don't currently have.
"Stay as Team" is still on our dev roadmap but isn't part of this update. We were waiting because the work would have been wasted if we did it pre-party system changes vs. post. Can't confirm a date yet but it's a priority. This would allow you to circumvent the above process (having to friend them first)

Ultimately your use cases are geared more towards friend finding and party discovery which is something we'd like to keep supporting better, but our focus for the first RocketID release is for people who know eachother already and want to play cross-platform. This assumes they can share their IDs with eachother using known methods e.g. Discord, Text Message. There are ways to still make it work (e.g. the Recent Players tab) but there's definitely room for improvement for the use cases you're asking about.

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